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Germinate vs Spout - What's the difference?

germinate | spout |

As verbs the difference between germinate and spout

is that germinate is to sprout or produce buds while spout is to gush forth in a jet or stream.

As a noun spout is

a tube or lip through which liquid is poured or discharged.

germinate

English

Verb

  • To sprout or produce buds.
  • (Francis Bacon)
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  • To cause to grow.
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    spout

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a tube or lip through which liquid is poured or discharged
  • I dropped my china teapot, and its spout has broken.
  • a stream of liquid
  • the mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To gush forth in a jet or stream
  • Water spouts from a hole.
  • (ambitransitive) To eject water or liquid in a jet.
  • The whale spouted .
  • * Creech
  • The mighty whale spouts the tide.
  • To speak tediously or pompously.
  • To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
  • Pray, spout some French, son.
  • (slang, dated) To pawn; to pledge.
  • to spout a watch

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