What's the difference between pitcher and spout?

Pitcher


Definition:

  • (n.) One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball to the batsman.
  • (n.) A sort of crowbar for digging.
  • (n.) A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle.
  • (n.) A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They could go out and trade for a pitcher such as the New York Mets’ Bartolo Colón , an obvious choice despite his 41 years, but he would come with an $11m price tag for next season and have to pass through the waiver wires process first – considering the wily mood Billy Beane is in this year, the A’s could be the team that blocks such a move.
  • (2) That is the question facing Major League Baseball pitchers who are faced with the horrendous looking but protective hat that made its debut this week.
  • (3) Runners at the corners for Daniel Descalso who he hits a hard ground ball right to Barmes at shortstop (not second base), he steps on the bag at second to get Freese for one out, fires to first to get the second out, and that's what we call an inning ending double play...or sometimes we call it a pitchers best friend.
  • (4) Electromyography and high-speed film were used to examine the muscle activity in the elbows of pitchers with medial collateral ligament insufficiency compared to the activity in uninjured elbows.
  • (5) 2.05am BST Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 0, top of the 4th We have a pitcher's duel ladies and gentlemen!
  • (6) Their acquisition of starting pitcher Ubaldo Jimenez however, well, that’s a wild one.
  • (7) When hall-of-fame pitcher Tom Glavine signed with the Mets, he agreed to build a new baby nursery in team-mate Joe McEwing’s home for his No47.
  • (8) 1.51am GMT Cardinals 2 - Red Sox 1, top of 5th AlisonW (@AlisonW) #RedSox finally doing what they do best: making the pitcher make more pitches.
  • (9) 1.06am GMT Red Sox 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of the 3rd And Clay faces Lance Lynn to start off the third, and the Superman-character named pitcher works a decent at-bat, working the count to 2-2 and then fouling off the next two pitches and taking ball three to a full count.
  • (10) Matt Cain became the latest Giants All-Star pitcher to slide , joining Barry Zito , who started the trend, and Tim Lincecum, whose 4.37 ERA was rewarded with a two-year $35m deal, a curious decision from the front office.
  • (11) Five of the best S. flava : bright yellow trumpet pitchers and sulphur-yellow flowers.
  • (12) All of the pitchers returned to professional or college league baseball without recurrence of the ulcer.
  • (13) All four pitchers returned to professional baseball the year following surgical excision of the bursa.
  • (14) I will refrain on saying my thoughts on the National League and pitchers hitting, but all I'm saying here is that maybe it would have been more fun to see a David Oritz or Victor Martinez hitting there instead.
  • (15) The tying run is coming to the plate and a new pitcher is coming to the mound... Jon Smalldon (@jonsmalldon) Brandon Crawford!
  • (16) Manager Mike Scioscia may have one-time slugger Josh Hamilton back in time for the postseason, should he heal from rib inflammation ( if they even need him ); same goes for starting pitcher Matt Shoemaker, who has carried the team down the stretch and is recovering from a mild left rib-cage strain , not to mention his rookie hazing role as a Saudi oil tycoon.
  • (17) 1.05am BST Jake Peavy Dave Leese (@dl_1009) @Busfield @LengelDavid I especially like watching a pitcher who's been declared legally blind, have a go at hitting a 90mph fastball October 26, 2013 Yes, the Sox starter is legally blind without corrective lenses.
  • (18) These pitchers have had symptoms for some time with progressive loss of full extension of the elbow and increasing pain.
  • (19) Sox on the Beach (@SoxontheBeach) Also, why are the A's fans behind home plate waving towels when THEIR pitcher is in the mound?
  • (20) Even more so if "rookie" Hyun-jin Ryu doesn't get his act together tonight - the first Korean pitcher to start in the playoffs looked nothing like the impressive hurler he was in the regular season, getting hit hard by the Braves in the NLDS.

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.