What's the difference between gush and spout?

Gush


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously.
  • (v. i.) To make a sentimental or untimely exhibition of affection; to display enthusiasm in a silly, demonstrative manner.
  • (v. t.) A sudden and violent issue of a fluid from an inclosed plase; an emission of a liquid in a large quantity, and with force; the fluid thus emitted; a rapid outpouring of anything; as, a gush of song from a bird.
  • (v. t.) A sentimental exhibition of affection or enthusiasm, etc.; effusive display of sentiment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I have brought some special friends with me," she gushed.
  • (2) The populations of the big settlement blocs of Maale Adumim, Gush Etzion and Ariel were stable over the past year.
  • (3) Each duodenal gush was identified and its value calculated on the basis of pre-established threshold and timing criteria which eliminate shifts in the baseline and artefacts due to the presence of particles.
  • (4) The withdrawal from Sinai due in April has antagonised the Gush Emunim and other nationalist groups who have threatened physically to obstruct it.
  • (5) A few weeks ago, an official from the Cabinet Office gushed on his blog about a jolly exciting trip, a kind of pilgrimage, to Amazon and Google in Seattle and San Francisco.
  • (6) Fans of the character should therefore take some solace from McWeeny's gushing review of Man of Steel .
  • (7) The oil's back too, gushing forth on Southfork ranch within seconds of the start of the new pilot.
  • (8) It was equipment failure that caused Shell's high-pressure Trans-Niger pipeline to rupture on 28 August 2008, gushing an estimated 2,000 barrels of oil per day into Bodo for weeks.
  • (9) She just wasn't at all like any of the interviews that I'd researched: she didn't gush, she was serious and still.
  • (10) On Reading’s website, Nick Candy gushes: “NRPR [Neil Reading PR] has guided us in formulating an ambitious strategy to help boost our profile and meet our niche target audience.
  • (11) Gushing reports of the city’s thriving creative scene, green spaces and quality of living have earned the place the nickname Hypezig, and some locals fear its reputation as “the better Berlin” may attract private investors, and drive up property prices.
  • (12) Shani Simkovitz, director of the Gush Etzion Foundation, shows the trailer for the new feature film about the massacre.
  • (13) She is impossible to dislike and I confess that I tried yet in the occasionally bitchy world of books she is nicknamed Lady Gush.
  • (14) Before a ferociously red crowd, in which the Australian fans, scattered throughout the stadium in little blobs of yellow, struggled to assert themselves in any meaningful way, the Chileans started with their customary disregard for defence, a line of five attackers purring forward with gushing, almost smug intent.
  • (15) Daniel Hamilton, a Conservative European election candidate, tweeted: " Ronnie Biggs was a violent criminal who evaded facing justice for decade s. I find today's gushing eulogies slightly offensive."
  • (16) "It's cheaper than water," said one motorist, pointing out that bottled water costs far more than the 95-octane gasoline gushing into his Ford Explorer.
  • (17) Old colleagues including Bravo, Karan, and the former Burberry finance director Stacey Cartwright are gushing in their praise for his abilities and leadership qualities.
  • (18) Secretin-induced flow is only a trickle in these patients, but when the limiting membranous web is cut, pancreatic secretions gush forth.
  • (19) Within hours of Xi’s landmark tour the party’s total control of China’s state media was on full show in a series of gushing reviews.
  • (20) Following the discovery of the missing Israeli's bodies on Monday, new details about the teenagers' abduction and murder 19 days ago while hitching home from West Bank religious schools have emerged in the Hebrew press, including the fact that investigators believe that the teenagers were killed within a few minutes of getting into a stolen car near Gush Etzion junction.

Spout


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To throw out forcibly and abudantly, as liquids through an office or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk.
  • (v. t.) To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
  • (v. t.) To pawn; to pledge; as, spout a watch.
  • (v. i.) To issue with with violence, or in a jet, as a liquid through a narrow orifice, or from a spout; as, water spouts from a hole; blood spouts from an artery.
  • (v. i.) To eject water or liquid in a jet.
  • (v. i.) To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.
  • (v. t.) That through which anything spouts; a discharging lip, pipe, or orifice; a tube, pipe, or conductor of any kind through which a liquid is poured, or by which it is conveyed in a stream from one place to another; as, the spout of a teapot; a spout for conducting water from the roof of a building.
  • (v. t.) A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle.
  • (v. t.) A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The spout was surrounded by a plastic ring which prevented more than one animal from drinking at any time.
  • (2) I blame my mother, whom my father called Blabbermouth, for training me up to spout what she called the Truth and what other people call telling the world everybody's private business.
  • (3) One hr following the competition test, each pair of animals was given access to a single unencumbered spout for a 1-hr period.
  • (4) If the solution which was previously used for establishing the conditioned taste aversion, appears in the drinking spout, the rat stops drinking after one or two licks.
  • (5) This situation was modelled in rats trained to lick at a retractable spout which was automatically withdrawn after termination of every lick but could be returned by pressing and releasing a lever placed 4 cm below the spout.
  • (6) The condition of hemorrhage immediately before the treatment with our technique was classified as spouting hemorrhage for 8 foci (3%), pulsating hemorrhage for 22 foci (9%), adhesion of clot for 179 foci (69%), and hemorrhage from veins and capillaries for 49 foci (19%).
  • (7) That intraoral intake and fluid ingestion via spout-licking (Weijnen et al., Brain Behav.
  • (8) The rats were also trained to obtain water from tongue-operated solenoid-driven drinking spouts.
  • (9) Termination of a photoelectrically monitored lick started a computer controlled delay during which the spout was made inaccesible.
  • (10) I saw a large group of middle-aged people browsing sheets of paper pinned to camellia bushes spouting vivid pink blooms.
  • (11) Squirrel monkeys were periodically exposed to brief electric tail shocks in a test environment containing a rubber hose, response lever, and a water spout.
  • (12) The average length of the ileostomy spout was significantly longer in males without ileostomy problems (5.8 cm) than in males having leakage (3.7 cm).
  • (13) The results showed that animals injected with cholecystokinin, bombesin, and LiCl developed learned aversions to the milk and actively buried the milk spout with their bedding.
  • (14) She provides a strong contrast to her sanctimonious, humourless sister Mary, who spouts empty platitudes about acceptable female conduct.
  • (15) as well as to kids wanting something to spout in the playground.
  • (16) In each experiment, independent fixed-ratio schedules were concurrently in effect at the two spouts.
  • (17) I think we should value that more in politics rather than just saying you've got to spout the party line.
  • (18) In the aftermath, the independent US military newspaper Stars & Stripes reported that Page was "steeped in white supremacy during his army days and spouted his racist views on the job as a soldier".
  • (19) The same would go for all variants on the statement, spouted with unchallenged frequency by so many people in western public life – the suggestion that they are always working, or that their work is incredibly exhausting.
  • (20) In Experiment 2, rats did not bury a milk spout until milk consumption was followed by toxicosis.