What's the difference between slop and spill?

Slop


Definition:

  • (n.) Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.
  • (n.) Mean and weak drink or liquid food; -- usually in the plural.
  • (n.) Dirty water; water in which anything has been washed or rinsed; water from wash-bowls, etc.
  • (v. t.) To cause to overflow, as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; to spill.
  • (v. t.) To spill liquid upon; to soil with a liquid spilled.
  • (v. i.) To overflow or be spilled as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; -- often with over.
  • (v. i.) Any kind of outer garment made of linen or cotton, as a night dress, or a smock frock.
  • (v. i.) A loose lower garment; loose breeches; chiefly used in the plural.
  • (v. i.) Ready-made clothes; also, among seamen, clothing, bedding, and other furnishings.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One trader wrote, on 10 March 2006: "I don't know how we dispose of the slops and I don't imply we would dump them, but for sure, there must be some way to pay someone to take them."
  • (2) The crude slop gave better results than the diluted or centrifuged liquors.
  • (3) The company has said the "slops" were dumped by a licensed local independent contractor, Compagnie Tommy, which was appointed in good faith.
  • (4) Their new album continues the generic cross-breeding that Funkadelic practised – on Standing on the Verge of Getting It On, Cosmic Slop, etc – from the black side of the racial border.
  • (5) Towers of pre-buttered bread, greasy counters and tubs of slop were dispiritingly common: Pret was clean, sleek and sensibly designed.
  • (6) Water slops from the pool on to the parquet where, in a few days, a baby will hopefully be sleeping in a moses basket.
  • (7) So if there is a heatwave this summer, it would be best for us, too, to slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen and slap on a hat.
  • (8) A perfectionist, this old-school hotelier strives to make even the most uncivilised environment palatable: his delicate approach to serving prison slop brings one of the film's funniest moments.
  • (9) This was especially true for the slop displacement test, which revealed large amounts of displacement after a single moderate torsional load, whereas in the underreamed groups significantly less loosening was found.
  • (10) One might agree that the mechanically recovered slop that is the main ingredient of these balls should not be called “meat”.
  • (11) You could water window boxes with dish-slop, though, and that was another tip: take a shower by standing under Selfridges' petunias, which were given a pretty upmarket daily dousing in water largely free from bits of crud and washing-up-liquid slick.
  • (12) They repeated denials that the slops could have caused death or serious injury, and were highly toxic.
  • (13) The hull rolled high and slid off to the right, dumping Claude Ledet into the terrible slop, and as he went under, his mind came back to a splintered version of the present, and he knew at once that he had to get back to the surface because the boy, he felt sure, would jump after him, and a news account he'd read thirty years before of a grandfather and grandson gone fishing and not coming back in at the appointed time bloomed into his head, because when the sheriff's men dragged the canal the next morning the hooks brought up together the grandfather and a four-year-old boy wrapped tightly in his arms.
  • (14) You know exactly what's going to happen on the long and grisly way out: the hoists, nappies, hernia, commodes, aphasia, swallowing problems and being spoon-fed slop.
  • (15) ), just bubblegum pap, and televised slop, for the masses.
  • (16) The good news is that a combination of sunscreen and covering up can reduce melanoma rates, as shown by Australian figures from their slip, slop, slap campaign .
  • (17) Unlike the accelerated Britpunk of much west-coast hardcore, the Peppers’ influences are mainly American – the Germs, Ohio Players, Jimi Hendrix, P-Funk, Dead Kennedys, Captain Beefheart, etc – yet the most audible ingredient of their cosmic slop is the Gang of Four’s judderfunk.
  • (18) Total cerebral blood flow was caliculated by bicompartmental analysis and compared to the two minutes initial slop index.
  • (19) Rotational micromotion, permanent rotational displacement, and slop displacement between bone and implant were measured with linearly variable differential transducers under torsional loading.
  • (20) Graphs of minute ventilation (V) versus mean CO2 for families of oscillation sizes (0.5%, 1% and 2%) showed that the ventilatory sensitivity (slop) was least for the 2% oscillations and greatest for the 0.5% oscillations.

Spill


Definition:

  • (n.) A bit of wood split off; a splinter.
  • (n.) A slender piece of anything.
  • (n.) A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
  • (n.) A metallic rod or pin.
  • (n.) A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc.
  • (n.) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
  • (n.) A little sum of money.
  • (v. t.) To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
  • (v. t.) To destroy; to kill; to put an end to.
  • (v. t.) To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste.
  • (v. t.) To suffer to fall or run out of a vessel; to lose, or suffer to be scattered; -- applied to fluids and to substances whose particles are small and loose; as, to spill water from a pail; to spill quicksilver from a vessel; to spill powder from a paper; to spill sand or flour.
  • (v. t.) To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed, or suffer to be shed, as in battle or in manslaughter; as, a man spills another's blood, or his own blood.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. i.) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
  • (v. i.) To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When you have champions of financial rectitude such as the International Monetary Fund and OECD warning of the international risk of an "explosion of social unrest" and arguing for a new fiscal stimulus if growth continues to falter, it's hardly surprising that tensions in the cabinet over next month's spending review are spilling over.
  • (2) According to Nigerian government figures, there were more than 7,000 spills between 1970 and 2000, and there are 2,000 official major spillage sites, many going back decades, with thousands of smaller spills still waiting to be cleared up.
  • (3) In another patient, there were symptoms of drug overdose when the contents of the balloon spilled into the intestinal tract.
  • (4) It was, as we say in French, the drop of water that made the glass spill over.
  • (5) I couldn't shake the harsh words from my head and worried about if, or when, they would spill over into real life.
  • (6) My role as deputy is to support the leader, not to change the leader, and I don’t support a spill motion.” “I support the prime minister, I support the leader.
  • (7) And it has left the international community floundering as it tries to respond to conflicts spilling across the globe.
  • (8) And so I would stare at a discarded popcorn box, a spilled drink or simply the darkness that disappeared into the seat ahead of me – listening carefully to quickening breaths – allowing the film’s soundscape to caress me.
  • (9) Tony Abbott has heard the message on the need to change his leadership style, a senior minister has said, warning the prime minister’s detractors against moving an “amateur-hour” spill motion next week.
  • (10) Oil is coating birds and delicate wetlands along the Louisiana coast, and the political fallout from the spill has reached Washington, where the head of the federal agency that oversees offshore drilling resigned today.
  • (11) Droplets of each admixture were placed on stainless steel, laboratory coat cloth, pieces of latex examination glove, bench-top absorbent padding, and other materials on which antineoplastics might spill or leak.
  • (12) Jeremy Hunt has been forced into a partial climbdown in his dispute with NHS junior doctors in an attempt to stop their fury at a threatened punitive new contract spilling over into strike action.
  • (13) Three years of frustration at the torpor he found at the centre of the party spills out.
  • (14) Spills in the US are responded to in minutes; in the Niger delta, which suffers more pollution each year than the Gulf of Mexico, it can take companies weeks or more.
  • (15) Couple this with the revelation that degrees might not even be worth the investment, and the sense of betrayal from those who have already graduated risks spilling over.
  • (16) Tottenham’s Danny Rose apologises for setting bad example in Chelsea draw Read more The ill feeling spilled over into the tunnel at the end as Spurs and Chelsea players got involved in a rolling maul which led to the home manager Guus Hiddink being sent flying and his counterpart Mauricio Pochettino attemping to prise the multiple brawlers apart.
  • (17) The time to hand over the reins came and went, Keating challenged and lost, before heading to the backbench to lick his wounds and shore up the factional numbers needed for a successful spill.
  • (18) The serum triglyceride of the patients in group 4 (highest urinary glucose content and spills) was significantly elevated above three other groups with less glucosuria.
  • (19) For example, one victim of the federal cuts is oil spill response units , which means that drilling and pipeline projects will become even riskier.
  • (20) BP would need to bring equipment from Texas to contain South Australia oil spill Read more BP plans to drill the first of four exploratory wells off the South Australian coast next year and submitted an environmental plan (pdf) for approval to the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority last week.