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Spill

Definition: Spill

Spill

Noun

1. Liquid that is spilled; "clean up the spills".

2. A channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction.

3. The act of allowing a fluid to escape.

4. A sudden drop from an upright position; "he had a nasty spill on the ice".

Verb

1. Cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container; "spill the milk"; "splatter water".

2. Flow, run or fall out and become lost, as of a liquid; "The milk spilled across the floor"; "The wine spilled onto the table".

3. Cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over; "spill the beans all over the table".

4. Pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities; "shed tears"; "spill blood"; "God shed His grace on Thee".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "spill" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Spill

DomainDefinition

Computing

Spill register spilling. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Building & Civil Engineering

The overtopping of the bank of a river during high floods, or in tidal waterways during the rise of the tide. The flow in a reservoir above the crest of the spillway. Source: European Union. (references)

Geography

The flow of water over the crest of a hydraulic structure. Source: European Union. (references)

Metallurgy

A relatively thin film or tongue of metal imperfectly attached to the surface of the steel. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

Any of the thick laths or poles driven ahead of the main timbering to support the roof or sides in advancing a level in loose ground, or to support the sides of a shaft when sinking through a stratum of looseground. Syn:spile. (references)

Transportation

To spill wind is to allow a sail to shake thus spilling the wind out of it. Source: European Union. (references)
 The unintentional release of a solid, liquid, or gas from a transportation mode. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Spill

Synonyms: fall (n), release (n), spillage (n), spillway (n), tumble (n), wasteweir (n), disgorge (v), pour forth (v), run out (v), shed (v), slop (v), splatter (v). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: overfall (geography, physics).

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Synonyms within Context: Spill

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Disclosure

Divulge, reveal, break; squeal, tattle, sing, rat, snitch; let into the secret; reveal the secrets of the prison house; tell; (inform); breathe, utter, blab, peach; let out, let fall, let drop, let slip, spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag; betray; tell tales, come out of school; come out with; give vent, give utterance to; open the lips, blurt out, vent, whisper about; speak out; (make manifest); make public; unriddle; (find out) a; split.

Disorder

Turmoil; ferment; (agitation); to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind; bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors; Bedlam, all hell broke loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business.

Ejection

Verb: give exit, give vent to; let out, give out, pour out, squeeze out, send out; dispatch, despatch; exhale, excern, excrete; embogue; secrete, secern; extravasate, shed, void, evacuation; emit; open the sluices, open the floodgates; turn on the tap; extrude, detrude; effuse, spend, expend; pour forth; squirt, spirt, spurt, spill, slop; perspire; (exude); breathe, blow; (wind).

Filament

Strip, shred, slip, spill, list, band, fillet, fascia, ribbon, riband, roll, lath, splinter, shiver, shaving.

Fuel

Brand, torch, fuse; wick; spill, match, light, lucifer, congreve, vesuvian, vesta, fusee, locofoco; linstock.

Information

Let slip, blurt out, spill the beans, unburden oneself of, let off one's chest; disclose.

Prodigality

Verb: be prodigal; Adjective: squander, lavish, sow broadcast; pour forth like water; blow, blow in; pay through the nose; (dear); spill, waste, dissipate, exhaust, drain, eat out of house and home, overdraw, outrun the constable; run out, run through; misspend; throw good money after bad, throw the helve after the hatchet; burn the candle at both ends; make ducks and drakes of one's money; fool away one's money, potter away one's money, muddle away one's money, fritter away one's money, throw away one's money, run through one's money; pour water into a sieve, kill the goose that lays the golden eggs; manger son ble en herbe.

River

Pour; pour out. (discharge); shower down, irrigate, drench. (wet); spill, splash.

Stopper

Noun: stopper, stopple; plug, cork, bung, spike, spill, tap; rammer; ram, ramrod; piston; stop-gap; wadding, stuffing, padding, stopping, dossil, pledget, tompion, tourniquet.

Warfare

Serve; see service, be on service, be on active service; campaign; wield the sword, shoulder a musket, smell powder, be under fire; spill blood, imbrue the hands in blood; on the warpath.

Waste

Verb: spend, expend, use, consume, swallow up, exhaust; impoverish; spill, drain, empty; disperse.

Writing

Take up the pen, take pen in hand; shed ink, spill ink, dip one's pen in ink.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Spill

English words defined with "spill": babble, babble out, blab, blab outcontainedfallpeachreleasesing, slosh, slosh around, slush, slush around, Spilled, Spilling, Spilttalk, tattle, tumble, turn. (references)
Specialty definitions using "spill": beet flumerFLUMER IIGunpowderHAZARDOUS-WASTE MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST, HYDROELECTRIC SPILL GENERATIONMilkNational Response Team, Nurr and Spellopen-top carrierPerfume, Potentially Responsible Party, pull an AllisonRegional Response TeamSpill Prevention, Containment, and Countermeasures PlanTea. (references)
Etymologies containing "spill": Spilth. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Spill" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (capstan), Norwegian (gamble, game), Swedish (overspill, spill, waste).

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Modern Usage: Spill

DomainUsage

Screenplays

If I spill, my life ain't worth a nickel (On the Waterfront; writing credit: Budd Schulberg.)

When I spill a drink on the carpet, my butler cleans up after me. (The Tattered Dress; writing credit: George Zuckerman)

Not to spill blood, that is the law. Are we not men (Island of Lost Souls; writing credit: H.G. Wells; Waldemar Young)

Oh, I'm sorry I can't come to the door right now. I feel that in my weakened condition I could take a nasty spill down the stairs and subject myself to further school absences (Ferris Bueller's Day Off; writing credit: John Hughes.)

Spill their blood (Patton; writing credit: Ladislas Farago; Omar N. Bradley)

Lyrics

Won't spill a drop, no, I promise you (Crush; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band)

The chills that you spill up my back (Groove Is in the Heart; performing artist: Deee-Lite)

And let your hair spill all around me (The End of the Innocence; performing artist: Don Henley)

Just chill, listen to the beats I spill (Keep Their Headz Ringin; performing artist: Dr. Dre)

If I cry think of what you'll be and how much you will how I feel me to spill (Crowded Elevator(Scream 3 Soundtrack,Make Yourself Import); performing artist: Incubus)

Clever

Parental Observation: A child will not spill on a dirty floor. (references; author: unknown)

Don't drink and drive. You might hit a bump and spill your drink. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Don't Spill the Beans (1965)

A Terrible Spill (1898)

Farlig spill (2000)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Spill

DomainTitle

References

  • Oil Spill Response and Recovery Technology in Malaysia: A Strategic Entry Report, 1995 (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Evaluating and Communicating Subsistence Seafood Safety in a Cross-Cultural Context: Lessons Learned from the Exxon Valdez Spill (Setac Technical pub (reference)

  • Industrial Spill Management : How to Deal with Releases of Hazardous Substances (reference)

  • Oil Spill! (Let's Read-And-Find-Out Science, Stage 2) (reference)

  • Out of the Channel: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Prince William Sound (reference)

  • Spill Reporting Procedures Guide 2003 (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • The Big Spill--Chemical Spill Prevention and Clean-Up (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Spill

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Photo Album: Spill

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An immature trophozoite may mature into an erythrocytic schizont or gametocytes. When the erythrocytic schizont ruptures, merozoites spill into the blood and repeat the cycle of infecting erythrocytes. Credit: CDC.

IXTOC 1 oil well blowout in Bay of Campeche Oil spill studied by RESEARCHER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Boomed marshes containing oil spill. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Oil containment boom placed in Swanson Creek, tributary to the Patuxent River, after oil spill at power generating plant. Credit: America's Coastlines.

An adult common murre. The common murre sustained the highest level of injuries after the Apex Houston oil spill. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Dixon Bay - Attempts to contain the spill included booms placed around the Spartina alterniflora marsh habitat. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Basic facts and figures about the World Prodigy oil spill incident. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A slide depicting the resources injured during the oil spill. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A test planting of smooth cordgrass on the East Timbalier marsh platform. This planting was done as restoration for the Lake Barre oil spill and was not CWPPRA funded. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Fuel spill exercise.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Sounds Captioned with "Spill".

PlayCaption
A big bottle or vase dropping and being broken letting its contents spill out randomly.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Spill

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

The thin walls of these ballooning aneurysms can rupture and spill blood into the space surrounding brain cells. (references)

Unrecognized hypercalcemia can cause excess calcium to spill into the urine, leading to kidney stones or kidney damage. (references)

Major industrial accidents attributed partly to errors made by fatigued night-shift workers include the Exxon Valdez oil spill and the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl nuclear power plant accidents. (references)

Business

In 1998, the Peruvian economy faced a sharp recession and increasing unemployment due to spill over from the Asian, Russian and Brazilian shocks and the severe El Nino weather phenomenon of that year. The Peruvian gross domestic product (GDP) declined 0.4 percent and statistics from the Labor Ministry estimated unemployment rate at about 8 percent and underemployment (earning under US$ 160 per month) at over 40 percent. (references)

Civil Liberties

Taiwan

During the year, the ship's master and the chief engineer of the Greek cargo vessel M/V Amorgos were prevented from leaving the island for 8 months while the Environmental Protection Agency negotiated with the shipping company's agent on compensation for damages caused by an oil spill when the ship ran aground off the coast of southern Taiwan on January 14. They were allowed to depart the island in August. (references)

Economic History

Ireland

While there is some potential for spill over into the Republic of Ireland, such an occurrence is unlikely. (references)

Georgia

More recently, there have been concerns that the conflict in neighboring Chechnya could spill over into this country. (references)

Political Economy

Ecuador

This year, the U.S. Coast Guard cleaned up an extensive oil spill that damaged and threatened the delicate and unique ecosystem of the Galapagos Islands. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention of gunpowder is ascribed to the Chinese, but not upon very convincing evidence. Milton says it was invented by the devil to dispel angels with, and this opinion seems to derive some support from the scarcity of angels. Moreover, it has the hearty concurrence of the Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. Secretary Wilson became interested in gunpowder through an event that occurred on the Government experimental farm in the District of Columbia. One day, several years ago, a rogue imperfectly reverent of the Secretary's profound attainments and personal character presented him with a sack of gunpowder, representing it as the sed of the Flashawful flabbergastor, a Patagonian cereal of great commercial value, admirably adapted to this climate. The good Secretary was instructed to spill it along in a furrow and afterward inhume it with soil. This he at once proceeded to do, and had made a continuous line of it all the way across a ten-acre field, when he was made to look backward by a shout from the generous donor, who at once dropped a lighted match into the furrow at the starting-point. Contact with the earth had somewhat dampened the powder, but the startled functionary saw himself pursued by a tall moving pillar of fire and smoke and fierce evolution. He stood for a moment paralyzed and speechless, then he recollected an engagement and, dropping all, absented himself thence with such surprising celerity that to the eyes of spectators along the route selected he appeared like a long, dim streak prolonging itself with inconceivable rapidity through seven villages, and audibly refusing to be comforted. "Great Scott! what is that?" cried a surveyor's chainman, shading his eyes and gazing at the fading line of agriculturist which bisected his visible horizon. "That," said the surveyor, carelessly glancing at the phenomenon and again centering his attention upon his instrument, "is the Meridian of Washington." H

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Spill

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Rush Limbaugh

I've told you many times that more oil seeps up from the ocean floor than we could ever spill, and here we hear about it as a natural phenomenon.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Spill

"Spill" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 46.55% of the time. "Spill" is used about 406 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)46.55%18922,353
Noun (singular)34.73%14126,682
Lexical Verb (base form)16.75%6840,606
Noun (proper)1.72%7133,076
Noun (common)0.25%1339,140
                    Total100.00%406N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Spill

Expressions using "spill": have a spill nasty spill oil spill spill blood spill drops spill ink spill it! spill money spill out spill out of spill over spill over oneself spill over with spill shield spill smth. on oneself spill the beans spill the dope spill wind from a sail. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "spill": spill-over, spill-way.

Ending with "spill": consecutive-spill, oil-spill.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Spill

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

oil spill

680

bay buzzard oil spill

19

spill

372

hamilton spill

19

built to spill

246

oil spill prevention

19

built lyrics spill

87

oil spill containment boom

18

oil spill picture

76

secondary spill containment

17

spill control

75

oil spain spill

16

123 spill

73

lyrics spill wine

16

exxon valdez oil spill

73

exxon oil spill

15

spill kit

59

gratis spill

15

spill containment

53

oil spill response

15

chemical spill

48

oil spill containment

14

oil spill cleanup

36

oil spill cleaning

14

built spill tab

31

oil prestige spill

14

spill the wine

29

information on oil spill

12

clean up oil spill

27

alaska oil spill valdez

12

spill protection

23

oil spill sorbents

12

spill response

22

valdez oil spill

12

spill containment pallets

20

spill proof cup

11

mercury spill

20

gasoline spill

11

chemical contamination spill water

19

alaska investigation oil spill valdez

11
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Spill

Language Translations for "spill"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

rrëzoj (blow, bring down, chop down, defeat, demolish, depolarise, depose, destroy, dethrone, disenthrone, dismount, disprove, down, drop, eradiate, fail, fell, floor, kill, knock out, overthrow, plough, plow, pull down, pull over, push down, push over, rase, raze, rebut, sink, wreck), rënie (abatement, bathos, collapse, come down, decadence, decadency, decay, decline, decrepitude, degeneracy, degradation, degression, depression, descent, dilapidation, downfall, drop, drop off, fall, falling, flop, incidence, lapse, letdown, precipitation, prolapse, recession, regress, taper, tumble, wane), hedh (aim, cast, cheat, chuck, dart, dash, diddle, discard, dispose of, down-load, drop, evade, flash, fling, flip, fob, fob off, have, heave, hose, hurl, land, launch, pitch, pour out, project, push, rain, release, scrap, send, set down, sink, sling, sprinkle, strew, swing, tap, throw, throw away, throw down, throw over, toss, touch off, transfer, winnow), hapërdaj (scatter), derdhje (cast, casting, debouchment, effusion, ejaculation, ejection, escape, inflow, influent, influx, outfall, outpouring, pour), derdhet (Debouch, flood, flow, flow in to, flow into, meet, overflow, pour, rain, regorge, rill, run out, run over, sluice, stream), derdh (discharge, disgorge, dump, effuse, ejaculate, eject, empty out, escape, found, outpour, pay in, pour, pour off, pour out, reject, run, scatter, shed, slop, strew, tap, tip off, upset). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏لفافة ورقية (wisp), ‏حرر الشراع من ضغط الريح, ‏سفك (shed, spilling), ‏سقط (bring down, cave, come off, dip, dive, down, drop, drop out, failed, fall, go by the board, settle, skip, sprawl, squirt, topple, trip, tumble), ‏خرج بإعداد كبيرة, ‏إندلق (slop), ‏أفشى السر (be indiscreet, give away, prattle, tell), ‏أراق (effuse, shed). (various references)

   

Basque

  

isuri (spill to). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разсипвам (intersperse), разкривам (bewray, bring to light, detect, disclose, discover, disinter, divulge, elicit, expose, find out, manifest, penetrate, show, smell out, unbare, unclose, unclothe, uncover, uncurtain, undress, unkennel, unload, unlock, unravel, unveil), разливам (diffuse, slop), недозаварка, лисвам, проливам (shed), падане (drop, fall, falling, flow, incidence, mucker, prolapsus, thump, trip, tumble), изсипване (bubonocele, spilth), изсипвам (empty, send forth, shoot, spew, tip out, unload), изхвърлям (bounce, cast aside, cast away, detrude, discharge, dump, ejaculate, eject, excrete, expel, out, project, push out, put out, reject, relegate, sack, shoot out, spew, spirt, spurt, throw, throw out, throw up, thrust forth, tip, turf out, vomit, whop), изтърсване, изтърсвам (shake, shake out, tip, tip out), издавам (betray, bring out, condemn, delate, denounce, disclose, divulge, emit, enact, give, give away, hand down, issue, leak, loose, proclaim, produce, publish, put forth, put out, send forth, stick out, throw out, utter), дървена тапа, дървена запушалка. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(sprinkle), 溢出 (Overflow, Overflowed, Overflowing, Overflown, spillage, Spilled, Spilling, spillover, Spilt), 潑掉 , ' (sprinkle). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vylít (empty, outpour, turn out, unburden), vyklopit (dump, fork out, shell out, shoot), utrousit, toèit (shoot, spin, swing, turn, twiddle, twine, twirl, twist, whirl, wind), tříska (chip, Flinders, shiver, sliver, splinter), rozsypat, rozlít (slop, upset), pád (case, collapse, crash, downfall, drop, fall, plump, plunge, ruin, tumble), motat (twist, wind up), kolíèek (peg, pin). (various references)

   

Danish

  

splint (alburnum, sapwood, scab, shell, sliver, splinter), spildsituation (overspill, spill situation, spillage), spild (abatement, overspill, shrinkage, spill situation, spillage, wasting), udslip,udledning (overspill, spill situation, spillage), tage vinden fra (blanket), overvalsning (seam, sliver), overspill (overspill, spill situation, spillage), overloeb (overflow, overrun, spillover, weir), fremskudt skjold (bar, forepole, poling board, spile), flig (lap, overlap, sliver). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

morsen. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

disverŝi. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ylivirtaus (spillover), päästää purje löysäksi, ohijuoksutus (spillover), metallikuori (scab, shell, sliver), löysätä purje, läikyttää (splash), läikkyä (be spilled, splash), kuori (bark, case, chancel, choir, crust, fruit skin, hull, husk, jacket, peel, shell), kaataa (fell, knock down, overturn, pour, scatter, shed, strike down, upset), hukka (destruction, loss, ruin, waste). (various references)

   

French

  

se répandre (spread), sortir en masse, faire couler, éclat (sparkle, splendour, splinter), allonge (spile), bois de serrage, cale (sprag), coin de serrage en bois, déborder, déventer, déversement (spill situation, spillage, spillover), écaille, dévoiler, fuite (spill situation, spillage), longue allumette de papier, overspill (spill situation, spillage), paille, répandre (sprinkle), rallonge (spile), remaniement, renversement, déverser. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

bargje. (various references)

   

German

  

Verschütten (fill in, slop, spillage, spilled, spilt). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

χύνω (found, pour, shed, spill out). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לשפוך (pour, shed), לערות (decant, demolish, denude, empty, expose, lay bare, pour out, raze, strip, uncover), ל"שפך (be emptied, be poured out, slop), לצוק (pour out). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

papírtekercs (tárolásra), leesés (downfall, drop, dropping, fall), kilöttyen, kiönt (effuse, Mold, mould, tip off, to effuse, to flood, to pour forth, to shed, to spill, to tip off, to tip out), kiömlés (discharge, effluence, effusion, effusiveness, overflow, spillage, spilling), fémszeg, fémcsap, esés (alignment, crump, descent, downfall, droop, drop, ebb, fall, falling, flop, gradient, setback, tumble), dugó (bung, cork, peg, plug, stopper, stopple, stud, tap), bukás (breakdown, catastrophe, come down, debacle, doom, downfall, failure, fall, fiasco, mucker, overthrow, tumble). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

menumpahkan, mencecerkan (scatter about, sow scatter), jatuh (drop off, drop out, fall, keel over). (various references)

   

Italian

  

spillaggio (casting, overspill, spill situation, spillage, tapping, to cast, to tap), scaglia (chip, scale), sfioro (overflow, spillover, spillway), spargere (disperse, disseminate, scatter, shed, sow, spread, sprinkle, strew, throw about, throw around, waft), squama (scale), stramazzo (overfall, overflow, overflow structure, spillover, spillway, spillway section, weir), sventare (foil, thwart), situazione de fuoriuscita accidentale (overspill, spill situation, spillage), torrente (Creek, torrent), versare (decant, deposit, pay in, pour, pour out, put down, scatter, shed, shower, slop, stream, tip, weep), traboccamento (overlap, overspill, spill situation, spillage), caduta (crash, downfall, drop, fall, falling, plunge, slide, slump, toss, tumble), tracimazione (outflanking, overfall, overflow, overtopping, spillover), versamtento, rovesciare (capsize, down, Evert, knock over, overset, overthrow, overturn, pour, reverse, shower, slop, spill out, tip, topple, tumble, turn, turn inside out, turn over, upset), riversarsi (fall, pour, spill over, surge), paglia (chaff, straw, thatch), overspill (overspill, spill situation, spillage), far cadere (drop, push over, shower, topple). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

転落 (degradation, fall, slump), 顛落 (degradation, fall, slump), 溢流 (overflow), 付け木 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

つけぎ, いつりゅう (overflow), て"らく (degradation, fall, slump). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

(Emanating, flux, Outflow, Spilling). (various references)

   

Manx

  

speiltan, lhieggey (bowl over, cataract, chop down, demolish, dismount, downfall, drop, fall, fall down, fell, fire, hew, overbalance, overflow, pick off, pull down, run over, strike, striking, throw, topple, tumble, weigh down), deayrtey (brew, brew of tea, efflux, effusion, pour, pour out, run over, shed, shower, spillage, stream). (various references)

   

Maya

  

wek (to spill). (various references)

   

Occitan

  

desquilhar. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

illspay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

situação de derrame (overspill, spill situation, spillage), filar vento, alonga (bar, forepole, poling board, spile), deixar cair (shed), derramamento (outpour, outpouring, overflow), derramamento de líquido, derramar (drop, dump, effuse, flow, outpour, pour, pour in, pour out, put about, scatter, shed, strew), derramar-se (outpour), descarga acidental (accidental spill, incidental discharge, incidental release, overspill, spill situation, spillage), entornar (dump, effuse, flow, overthrow, pour, pour in, pour out, put about, scatter, turn over, upset), entornar-se, escama (scale, squama), aguaceiro (downpour, flurry, rainfall, shower, soaker, squall), extravasar (regurgitate), virar (bend, capsize, overset, slew, slue round, spin, swing, throw, tilt, tip, tip-over, topple, turn, turn around, turn round, upset), líquido derramado (spilth), lascar (break, chip, cleave, scale, slash, spall, splinter, split), pé d'água (rain shower, shower), pedaço de madeira (tree), queda (cloud-burst, come-down, debacle, decay, descent, downfall, fall, fallback, falling, letdown, mucker, overthrow, prolapse, purler, tumble, tumbling, upset), tombo (mucker, tumbling, upset), transbordamento (overflow, overrun), transbordar (boil over, deluge, flood, gush, overbrim, overflow, overflowing, overrun, swim, waterlog), trasbordar, espalhar (bestrew, blow, buzz, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, drift, drop, flecker, fleece, fling, intersperse, noise, overblow, overspread, promulgate, propagate, publish, put about, retail, rumor, rumour, run through, scatter, send, sow, sprawl, spread, stretch, strew). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

se vãrsa (discharge, disembogue, empty, regorge), se împrãştia (blow away, break, break up, disband, dissipate, lift, scatter, shrink away, thin), patã (blemish, blot, blur, breath, dab, flaw, fleck, Mark, patch, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, spatter, splash, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish, ulcer), arunca afarã (spout), cãdere (authority, becomingness, break down, collapse, cropper, debacle, destruction, downfall, drop, failure, fall, labefaction, lapse, plump, rot, Turkey), cana (faucet, spigot), cep (bung, journal, nose, spigot, spile, tap), crah financiar, împrãştia (bestrew, break, diffuse, dispel, disperse, disseminate, dissipate, distribute, effuse, exude, fling, propagate, scatter, shoot out, split up, spread, sprinkle, straggle, strew, throw about, vanish), da jos (get down, knock, overthrow, strip), vãrsare (effusion, flow, influx, issue), pierde (balk, baulk, blunder away, cast away, chuck away, consume, dally away, disappear, drop, lose, lose out, Miss, muddle away, relinquish, ruin, throw away, waste), rãsturna (capsize, coup, invert, lay low, overthrow, overturn, reverse, rummage, scatter, snooker, subvert, throw down, tilt, topple, tumble, turn, upset), rãsturnare (overthrow, tip, upheaval, upset, upsetting), vãrsa (circumfuse, disgorge, effuse, eject, infuse, outpour, pour forth, puke, regorge, shed, spew, spout, tipple, vomit), da drumul la (ease, exhaust, heave, let off, relinquish, slack, slip, stream, volley). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

рассыпать (scatter, strew), разливаться, разливать (slop), лучина, брызги (spatter, splash, splatter, splutter, spray), просыпать (leep trough, oversleep, sleep through), пролить (shed), проливать (spilt). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

dòirt (pour). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sručiti (plunge, pour), zbaciti (buck, cast off, dethrone, throw down, throw off), vreteno (arbor, mandrel, spindle), razliti (diffuse), rasuti se, rasuti (disperse, squander, strew), prosuti (outpour, pour out, slop, spill out), prosipanje (shedding), proliti (shed, slop), pad (collapse, come down, decline, downfall, drop, fall, hang, overturn, tumble), čepić. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

vertido (leak), derramar (draw, outpour, pour, pour out, scatter, shed, shower, slop, spill out, stream, strew, tumble, tumble over, upset). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

spilla (drop, slop, trifle away, waste), spill (overspill, waste). (various references)

   

Thai

  

สิ่งที่หกล้น, ทำให้หก, การหกคะเมน, ทะลัก, หก. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

serpmek (asperse, besprinkle, dabble, dust, intersperse, perfuse, pulverization, scatter, splash, splatter, spray, sprinkle, strew), saçmak (besprinkle, bestrew, broadcast, disseminate, distribute, eradiate, irradiate, lash out on, radiate, scatter, sow, spit, splutter, sprinkle, strew, throw out), saçılmak (be scattered, be spilled, be sprinkled, fly, scatter, sprinkle), söylemek (affirm, air, apprise, assert, aver, bade, bid, break, call, confess, couch, deliver, drop, enunciate, give voice to, hazard, impart, name, observe, order, pass, pronounce, remark, report, say, sing, sound, speak, speak of, spit, spit out, state, tell, throw out, utter, voice, word), düşme (descent, downfall, drop, fall, falling away, falling down, falling off, flop, precipitation, sag, scale down, slump, tumble), üzerinden atma, açığa vurmak (betray, disclose, divulge, evince, express, externalize, give vent to, lay bare, let on, reveal, uncloak, unclose, uncork, unseal, unveil, utter, vent, ventilate, yield, yield up), akıtmak (disembogue, drain, drain away, drain off, drip, funnel, pour, shed, stream, trickle, weep), dökülmek (be poured, come off, course, disembogue, disgorge, drape, empty, fall, fall into, fall into decay, fall off, fall out, feel cheap, flow, go to pieces, molder, moulder, Peel, peel off, pour, pour forth, pour out, rub off, run down, slop over, teem, trail), dökmek (cast, deplenish, deplete, diffuse, dump, effuse, empty, found, pour, pour from, pour out, pour out of, shed, shower, slop, slosh on, teem, tip, tip over, unbosom), düşüş (collapse, comedown, cutback, decline, decrease, downgrade, drop, ebb, ebb tide, eclipse, fall, falling, purler, recession, recessional, reduction, scale down, sinking, tumble), üstünden atmak (put off, throw off, work off), düşürmek (beat down, cause to fall, curtail, deflate, depress, drop, flop, knock off, let down, let fall, lower, mark down, overthrow, precipitate, pull dawn, put down, reduce, roll back, scale down, screw down, send down, sink, slim down, step down, take from, throw, topple over, trip), tutuşturma tahtası, tıkaç (bung, Cork, filler, gag, packing, plug, spigot, stopper, stopple, tampon, wad, wadding), tapa (fuse, fuze, spile, stopper, stopple), tutuşturma kâğıdı (touchpaper), düşürme (causing to fall, degradation, dropping, overthrow, reduction, rollback, throw). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

dцkmek (leak), зцpleme (brushwood). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

стержень (bar, core, stalk, web), розсипатися (molder, moulder), розсипати (intersperse), чіп (microchip, obturator, stopper), кілочок (peg), осколок (chip, odd-come-short, shiver, splinter), лучина, проливатися, проливати (effuse). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự l m tr n (spilt), sự l m đổ ra (spilt), cái chốt nhỏ (spilt). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

tywallt (pour, shed), colli (be lost, lose, perish, shed). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Spill

Derivations

Words beginning with "spill": spillable, spillage, spillages, spilled, spiller, spillers, spillikin, spillikins, spilling, spillover, spillovers, spills, spillway, spillways. (additional references)

Words ending with "spill": overspill. (additional references)

Words containing "spill": overspills. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Spill" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aspell, psilo, spail, spal, Spall, spel, spil, spiol, spl, sqill, Supalla, svill. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Spill"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "spill" (pronounced spi"l)
3-p i" lpill.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Spill

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pills.

Words within the letters "i-l-l-p-s"

-1 letter: ills, lips, lisp, pill, sill, slip.

-2 letters: ill, lip, lis, pis, psi, sip.

-3 letters: is, li, pi, si.

 Words containing the letters "i-l-l-p-s"
 

+1 letter: prills, spills.

 

+2 letters: ellipse, fillips, lipless, pillars, pillows, pilules, plimsol, pollist, psyllid, spilled, spiller, uphills.

 

+3 letters: allspice, ellipses, ellipsis, hilltops, landslip, lapillus, lapsible, lupulins, misspell, pailfuls, pailsful, palliest, palliums, pastille, perillas, phallism, phallist, pileless, pillages, pillions, pinballs, pitfalls, playlist, plimsole, plimsoll, plimsols, plushily, pluvials, pollices, pollists, prebills, psyllids, psyllium, sleepily, slipless, slipslop, slipsole, sloppily, spadille, spalling, spelling, spillage, spillers, spilling, spillway, spinally, spinelle, spirally, spirilla, spitball, splenial.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Sounds
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Quotations: Spoken
11. Usage Frequency
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Derivations
16. Rhymes
17. Anagrams
18. Bibliography


  

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