Spurt vs Sudden - What's the difference?
spurt | sudden |
To cause to gush out suddenly or violently in a stream or jet.
To rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet.
* Alexander Pope
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
To make a strong effort for a short period of time.
A brief gush, as of liquid spurting from an orifice or a cut/wound.
A sudden and energetic effort, as in an emergency; an increased exertion for a brief space.
* T. Hughes
(slang) Ejaculation of semen. (rfex)
(obsolete) A shoot; a bud.
Happening quickly and with little or no warning.
*, chapter=1
, title= (obsolete) Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
(obsolete) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.
* Shakespeare
As a verb spurt
is .As an adjective sudden is
happening quickly and with little or no warning.As an adverb sudden is
(poetic) suddenly.As a noun sudden is
(obsolete) an unexpected occurrence; a surprise.spurt
English
Verb
(en verb)- Thus the small jet, which hasty hands unlock, / Spurts in the gardener's eyes who turns the cock.
- With that he pulled open his shirt, and with his long sharp nails opened a vein in his breast. When the blood began to spurt out, he took my hands in one of his, holding them tight, and with the other seized my neck and pressed my mouth to the wound, so that I must either suffocate or swallow some to the . . . Oh, my God! My God! What have I done?
- ''The bullion market spurted on Thursday.
- ''The runners spurted to the last lap as if they had extracted new energy from the applauds of the audience.
Synonyms
* spirt * spoutNoun
(en noun)- a spurt of water; a spurt of blood
- The boss's visit prompted a brief spurt of activity.
- The long, steady sweep of the so-called "paddle" tried him almost as much as the breathless strain of the spurt .
- (Holland)
Derived terms
* growth spurtAnagrams
* English terms with unknown etymologies ----sudden
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
- Never was such a sudden scholar made.
- the apples of Asphaltis, appearing goodly to the sudden eye
- I have no joy of this contract to-night: It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden
