(n.) A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; also, the plug of a faucet or cock.
Example Sentences:
(1) For Araldite photoelastic models of an alumina head on a Vitallium spigot, as-cast taper surfaces lubricated with silicone grease gave consistent friction of typically mu = 0.14.
(2) Nevertheless the character of these spigots undoubtedly reflects phylogenetic relationships between the spider taxa.
(3) Static axial push-on and lift-off, and push-on and twist-off experiments were designed and performed to measure the effective, room-temperature coefficient of friction mu for different design femoral prosthesis cone taper joints comprising a universal head on a stem spigot.
(4) We compared the efficacy of ozonation, UV light, hyperchlorination, and heat eradication using a model plumbing system constructed of copper piping, brass spigots, Plexiglas reservoir, electric hot water tank, and a pump.
(5) Short-duration, cyclically loaded, axial, fretting corrosion tests were designed and performed to compare the fretting behaviour of different metal Howmedica universal heads connected to coated and uncoated metal cone taper spigots.
(6) The global supply glut of about 1.5m barrels per day is the driving factor behind the lower oil prices, with much of that overproduction because of Opec’s opening the spigots.
(7) Three practices were evaluated: the securing of catheters, presence of kinking and the use of urinary bags with a drainage spigot.
(8) The comparative observations enable me to create a hypothesis dealing with the existence of several evolutionary lines of spiders, each of which is represented with their own form of spigots.
(9) Alumina and metal heads were tested on metal spigots using either distilled water, Ringer's solution, blood or no lubricant.
(10) If the financial spigots of the City of London were turned off, it would be Russia that has the most to lose: since 2002 Russian companies have raised $406bn on London's capital markets.
(11) The values measured were typically mu = 0.2 for an alumina head on a Co-Cr-Mo or Ti-6Al-4V spigot, mu = 0.15 for a Co-Cr-Mo head on a Co-Cr-Mo or Ti-6Al-4V spigot and mu = 0.13 for a stainless steel head on a stainless steel spigot.
(12) "Once the spigot is turned on, once the preponderance of water comes out of a pipeline instead of the Colorado river, do you think for one minute it will ever be turned off?"
(13) The axial displacement of model heads on their spigots were compared with predicted values and previously measured values for prosthesis heads.
(14) The present paper reviews the results from the study of spigots, i.e.
(15) I think most pragmatists realise that we can’t close the spigot on the oil wells and close the coal mines immediately without some other energy source to shift to.” Climate change petition sign up
(16) Colonization of the catheter and its sequelae, including cystitis, result from a creeping adherent biofilm of bacteria ascending the luminal and external surfaces of the catheter and drainage system from a contaminated drainage spigot or from the urethral meatus.
(17) The Fed chairman refused to be drawn on precisely what signs would have to emerge before he turns off the spigot.
(18) A frosted glass cubicle contained a squat toilet, basin and a hot water spigot for showers.
(19) There’s Oprah and there’s the rest of us, that’s the real message – and we should be grateful merely to receive the sacramental balm that now gushes from her benevolent spigot.
(20) The robot hands are used to deliver solvents from pressurized spigot lines and to pipet amino acid solutions from reservoirs to an array of reaction vessels.
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.