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spout | x |

As a noun spout

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

As a verb spout

is to gush forth in a jet or stream.

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

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

    Anagrams

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    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
    • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.

    • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike

    • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
    • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----