spill

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 [spɪɫ]    美 [spɪɫ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any thing that has been spilled; the resulting mess.
  2. A fall or stumble.
    — The bruise is from a bad spill he had last week.
  3. Synonym of taper, a thin stick, long wick, etc. used to transfer flame. archaic
    — “In a moment, he has torn the letter into long thin strips, and rolling them up into spills he thrusts them hurriedly in amongst the other spills in the vase on the mantle-piece.”
  4. A slender piece of anything.; A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask'; a spile.
  5. A slender piece of anything.; A metallic rod or pin.
  6. A slender piece of anything.; A spillikin.
    — A tool with which to extract the spills from the pile.
  7. A slender piece of anything.; A splinter caught in the skin. Shropshire
  8. One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
  9. The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
  10. A small sum of money. obsolete
    — Spill or Sportule for the same from the credulous Laity
  11. A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill. Australian
动词 v.
  1. To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour. transitive
    — I spilled some sticky juice on the kitchen floor.
  2. To spread out or fall out, as above. intransitive
    — Some sticky juice spilled onto the kitchen floor.
  3. To overflow out of a designated area. intransitive
    — The crowd spilled onto Maple Avenue.
  4. To drop something that was intended to be caught. transitive
    — That should have been that, but Hart caught a dose of the Hennessey wobbles and spilled Adlene Guedioura's long-range shot.
  5. To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
    — They [the colours] disfigure the stuff and spill the whole workmanship.
  6. To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste. intransitive,obsolete
    — That thou wilt suffer innocence to spill.
  7. To overflow or flow out, over or off something. also,figuratively,intransitive
    — Liverpool Street's 1985-92 remodelling by the British Rail Architects' Department (under project lead Nick Derbyshire) had carefully followed original 1870s detailing, with the concourse designed to allow natural light to spill into the station.
  8. To cause or flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed. transitive
    — to revenge his Blood, ſo juſtly ſpilt, / VVhat is it leſs then to partake his guilt?
  9. To cause to be thrown from a mount, a carriage, etc. obsolete,slang,transitive
    — Then, not thirty feet beyond, a sudden panicky lunge to the side by his horse spilled him from the saddle.
  10. To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
    — And all the others pavement were with yvory spilt
  11. 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.
  12. To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election. Australian,transitive
  13. To reveal information to an uninformed party. ambitransitive
    — He spilled his guts out to his new psychologist.
  14. To come undone.
  15. To express (something), especially repeatedly or floridly; to be expressed. transitive
    — He spilled insults about the other team.

词形变化

spills present,singular,third-person spilling participle,present spilled participle,past spilled past spilt participle,past spilt past spills plural

词汇关系

衍生词
antispill cry over spilt milk forspill nonspill oil spill prespill spillable spillage spillback spill blood spiller spill ink spillionaire spill juice spill kit spill one's guts spill one's guts out spill one's seed spill out spill over spillover spillproof spill the beans spill the tea spill vase spillway spilly spilth spilt milk take a spill there's no point crying over spilt milk there's no use crying over spilt milk unspill unspilled

词源

词源 1
From Middle English spillen, from Old English spillan, spildan (“to kill, destroy, waste”), from Proto-West Germanic *spilþijan, from Proto-Germanic *spilþijaną (“to spoil, kill, murder”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to sunder, split, rend, tear”).
Cognate with Dutch spillen (“to use needlessly, waste”), French gaspiller ("to waste, squander" < Germanic), Bavarian spillen (“to split, cleave, splinter”), Danish spilde (“to spill, waste”), Swedish spilla (“to spill, waste”), Icelandic spilla (“to contaminate, spoil”). See also spool.
词源 2
From Middle English spillen, from Old English spillan, spildan (“to kill, destroy, waste”), from Proto-West Germanic *spilþijan, from Proto-Germanic *spilþijaną (“to spoil, kill, murder”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to sunder, split, rend, tear”).
Cognate with Dutch spillen (“to use needlessly, waste”), French gaspiller ("to waste, squander" < Germanic), Bavarian spillen (“to split, cleave, splinter”), Danish spilde (“to spill, waste”), Swedish spilla (“to spill, waste”), Icelandic spilla (“to contaminate, spoil”). See also spool.
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