spill
IPA: spˈɪɫ
noun
- (countable) A mess of something that has been dropped.
- A fall or stumble.
- A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.
- A slender piece of anything.
- A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
- A metallic rod or pin.
- (mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
- (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
- (obsolete) A small sum of money.
- (Australian politics) A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill.
verb
- (transitive) To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
- (intransitive) To spread out or fall out, as above.
- (transitive) To drop something that was intended to be caught.
- To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
- (transitive) To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
- (transitive, slang, obsolete) To cause to be thrown from a mount, a carriage, etc.
- To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
- (nautical) 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.
- (transitive, Australian politics) To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
- (transitive, intransitive) To reveal information to an uninformed party.
- (of a knot) To come undone.
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Examples of "spill" in Sentences
- He spilled milk on my mat.
- The water was spilled on the floor.
- The clinkers spill out at the end of the cylinder.
- The excess spilled over the dam and into the river.
- The Papua macaque problem is comparative to a spill.
- It's confirmed the cause of the 'spill' was a blowout.
- The best of the wine is spilled early in the engagement.
- Aldra is visibly disturbed by the spilling of the sacred milk.
- Spill the streets of the Shining City with the blood of angels
- Hurricanes are an act of nature, but this spill is an act of men.
- An investigation is underway as to the cause of the Australia spill.
- The oil spill is a situation where you don't see what worries you the most.
- Already, this oil spill is the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced.
- A "spill" is when you have something, and then lose it - like water from a bucket, or oil from the Exxon Valdez.
- Some of Obama's top officials said Sunday that the spill is a potential catastrophe and defended the administration's response so far against complaints it has reacted too slowly.
- "I think the spill is a game changer," said William Reilly, co-chairman of the president's oil spill commission tasked with examining policy for offshore drilling in light of what went wrong with the Macondo well.
- The incoming leader, who takes over Friday as CEO of a company struggling with the aftermath of a record oil spill, is ousting entrenched leaders, restructuring the organization and reassessing how employees earn their pay.
- As Mother Jones environmental reporter Kate Sheppard recently noted: “The base fine for a spill is $1,100 a barrel, but it can go as high as $4,300 a barrel if a federal court determines that the spill was the result of gross negligence by the responsible party.”
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