Spill vs Lighter - What's the difference?
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To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to pour.
To spread out or fall out, as above.
* Isaac Watts
To drop something that was intended to be caught.
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To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
* Puttenham
* Fuller
(obsolete) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
* Chaucer
To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
* Dryden
To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
(nautical) To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
(countable) A mess of something that has been dropped.
A fall or stumble.
A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.
* 2008 , Elizabeth Bear, Ink and Steel: A Novel of the Promethean Age :
A slender piece of anything.
# A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
# A metallic rod or pin.
(mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
(obsolete) A small sum of money.
(Australia, politics) A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of (l)
game, play
(light)
One who, or that which, lights.
A small, reusable handheld device for creating fire, especially for lighting cigarettes.
A flat-bottomed boat for carrying heavy loads across short distances (especially for canals or for loading or unloading larger boats).
To transfer cargo or fuel from a ship, lightening it to make its draft less or to make it easier to refloat.
(light)
As verbs the difference between spill and lighter
is that spill is to drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to pour while lighter is to transfer cargo or fuel from a ship, lightening it to make its draft less or to make it easier to refloat.As nouns the difference between spill and lighter
is that spill is a mess of something that has been dropped while lighter is one who, or that which, lights.As an adjective lighter is
comparative of light.spill
English
Verb
- I spilled some sticky juice on the kitchen floor.
- Some sticky juice spilled onto the kitchen floor.
- He was so topful of himself, that he let it spill on all the company.
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- They [the colours] disfigure the stuff and spill the whole workmanship.
- Spill not the morning, the quintessence of day, in recreations.
- That thou wilt suffer innocents to spill .
- to revenge his blood so justly spilt
- (Spenser)
Derived terms
* spiller * spill blood * spill one's seed * spill out * spill over * spill the beansNoun
(en noun)- The bruise is from a bad spill he had last week.
- Kit froze with the pipe between his teeth, the relit spill pressed to the weed within it.
- (Ayliffe)
Quotations
* (English Citations of "spill")Derived terms
* spill one's seed * spillway * take a spillAnagrams
* English ergative verbs ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
Inflection
Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l)Verb
(head)See also
* (spel) ----lighter
English
Etymology 1
SeeAdjective
(head)- I prefer a lighter shade of pink.
Etymology 2
SeeNoun
(en noun)- a lighter of lamps
- Cigarette in mouth, he clutched his pockets in search of a lighter .
Etymology 3
See ; or possibly from (etyl) luchterNoun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)Etymology 4
SeeAdjective
(head)- What happened? You look 10 lbs. lighter !
- I wish I'd thrown a lighter punch; he's out cold.