What's the difference between nozzle and spout?

Nozzle


Definition:

  • (n.) The nose; the snout; hence, the projecting vent of anything; as, the nozzle of a bellows.
  • (n.) A short tube, usually tapering, forming the vent of a hose or pipe.
  • (n.) A short outlet, or inlet, pipe projecting from the end or side of a hollow vessel, as a steam-engine cylinder or a steam boiler.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The reaction mixture is transferred by injecting a wash solution from a group of nozzles into the incubation well.
  • (2) Potential dermal exposure from tractor-powered sprayers fitted with conventional hydraulic nozzles was lower than from knapsack sprayers, with exposure from a tractor-powered sprayer fitted with controlled-droplet application equipment intermediate in this regard.
  • (3) These characteristics were correlated with graft fabrication variables: mandrel rpm, horizontal speed of the spray nozzle, gas and polymer solution flow rates.
  • (4) While all three were considered effective for symptom relief, there was a clear preference for both of the new longer, snout-like nozzle adapters over the currently available delivery system.
  • (5) To reduce wastage of insecticide, nozzle tips are changed periodically but the tips are expensive and the replacement schedule should be based on the cost of the tip in relation to the cost of the insecticide wasted.
  • (6) Measurements indicate stable air outflow temperatures are maintained when proper nozzle design and air flow rates are employed.
  • (7) Rectal gangrene as a complication of haemorrhoids is rare and, whereas reports have suggested that this complication is due to nozzle injury, we believe that it may be due to a direct necrotizing effect of the phosphate on the rectum.
  • (8) Being a toddler, she toddled a bit; she knocked over a bottle of Dettol spray, and in a staggering act of pre-school vandalism, broke the nozzle.
  • (9) Finally, noise control techniques in the use and installation of nozzles and ejectors are reviewed.
  • (10) For preservation of viability during sampling of microorganisms, it is common to use impingers with the jet nozzle above the liquid surface.
  • (11) A finger-tip unit (FTU) is the amount of ointment expressed from a tube with a 5 mm diameter nozzle, applied from the distal skin-crease to the tip of the index finger.
  • (12) One of the main factors controlling dosage is the discharge rate of the sprayer, which depends to a great extent on the ability of the nozzle tip to discharge an even spray.
  • (13) The authors present its principle and describe the apparatus: a source of liquid nitrogen, a flexible tube and a probe with a skin-suitable nozzle.
  • (14) A modified personal impinger (MPI) for sampling airborne microorganisms was tested for collection efficiency with the jet nozzle placed at various positions above and below the liquid surface.
  • (15) This method would facilitate the establishment of a replacement schedule for nozzle tips used in spraying programmes, and periodic adjustments when new formulations of insecticides or other types of nozzle tip are supplied.
  • (16) At 60 and 100 W of laser power, higher external air flows and greater attention to nozzle positioning were necessary.
  • (17) Before this sampling both test surfaces were vacuumed using the non-motorized nozzle in order to assess the mite numbers at the beginning of the experiment.
  • (18) A nozzle produces a hydrodynamically focused sample stream in a liquid jet that id directed onto a microscope cover glass in front of the microscope objective.
  • (19) Complete control of smoke was achieved when the nozzle was located at 2 in, but significant amounts of smoke escaped when the nozzle was located at 6 and 12 in.
  • (20) A 'nasal pool' (NP) device, a compressible plastic container with an adapted nozzle, was used to perform a continuous 10-min nasal provocation and lavage.

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.