(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.
Spiller
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, spills.
(n.) A kind of fishing line with many hooks; a boulter.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results of EEG investigations after Spiller-Frazier's operation for trigeminal neuralgia in 112 patients are reported.
(2) Some of that can be attributed to Fred Jackson's presence, but Jackson is a lesser player at this point in his career and Spiller could have had vastly more than 207 carries even as part of a committee.
(3) One of these patients was operated on by the method of Frazier-Spiller, the other by Dandy's method in a microsurgical modification.
(4) Simon Spiller "A relaxed seaside town, but less of a sleepy backwater than it used to be: quite a few urban downshifters in their 40s, like us, and culture, including a literary festival.
(5) In two patients a Spiller-Frazier operation had been performed after tractotomy, in two patients exairesis of the infraorbital or supraorbital nerve had been done.
(6) Medicinal therapy is then still frequently possible without side effects and operative treatment (Frazier-Spiller's retrogasserian neurotomy) can be postponed.
(7) The data are analogous to those found for homogenates of calf and chicken lens (Beaulieu, C. F., J. I. Clark, R. D. Brown III, M. Spiller, and S. H. Koenig.
(8) The supreme court in Spiller has dealt, head on, with one of the many complexities and controversies that have bedeviled the fair comment defence in recent years and have highlighted that the whole area merits consideration by the Law Commission, or an expert committee.
(9) examinations was carried out at periods of 6 months to 4 years, after they had been operated on by the Spiller-Frazier method.
(10) The primary structure and cotranscription of the petCA genes encoding the Rieske-FeS (nuclear encoded in plants) and apocytochrome f proteins has been described previously (Kallas, T., Spiller, S., and Malkin, R. (1988) Proc.
(11) Spiller and R.J. Amen in this journal in 1975 (Volume 7 Issue 1).
(12) Running back CJ Spiller can carry this team so far, but an injury-disrupted preseason has provided a less-than-ideal platform for the team's new coaching staff.
(13) The additions of Cordy Glenn and TJ Graham notably improved the talent on offense, but the combination of Ryan Fitzpatrick's tendency to turn the ball over and miss open receivers coupled with Gailey's reluctance to put the ball in the hands of his best player, CJ Spiller , seriously affected production.
(14) 8:47-57; Beaulieu, C. F., R. D. Brown III, J. I. Clark, M. Spiller, and S. H. Koenig.
(15) Spiller ranked second in the league in yards per carry, but 22nd in the league in attempts .
(16) In 2000, three Rotherham men were found guilty of laundering £3m worth of unfit chicken and turkey, supposedly destined for tins of Spillers and Pedigree petfood, back into supplies for human consumption.
(17) He had been working on odour research at Spillers cat food, trying to establish how smell influenced feeding, but when the chance came to return to academia at London Zoo, where the first British colony of naked mole rats had been established in 1987, he jumped at it.
(18) He put his fate in Fitzpatrick's hands when he should have put it in Spiller's instead.
(19) The Frazier-Spiller operation had been the standard operation for trigeminal neuralgia.