spouts 1 of 2

plural of spout
1
as in gutters
a pipe or channel for carrying off water from a roof during the winter, runoff from the spout tends to freeze over and form a dangerous patch of ice on the walkway

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as in jets
a usually forceful stream of fluid discharged from a narrow opening kids cooling off under the spout of water from an opened fire hydrant

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spouts

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verb

present tense third-person singular of spout

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Recent Examples of spouts
Noun
And teach kids not to drink from the pool or treat splash-pad spouts like drinking fountains. Angela Haupt, Time, 20 July 2026 Cascading waterfall spouts that line the middle of the pool, meantime, are specially angled to target stress points on your body. Tim Chan, HollywoodReporter, 12 July 2026 Some of the water spouts reached between 20 feet and 30 feet, geologists said. Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 23 June 2026 Glorious sculptures entangled in water spouts were erected across the city over the next century. Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 11 June 2026 Lids and spouts can quickly become traps for mold, bacteria, and grime, especially in hard-to-reach crevices. Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 May 2026 The icebergs, the porpoising penguins, the whale spouts visible from the deck—the sensory experience accumulated quickly into something overwhelming. Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 May 2026 The last step is to reattach your showerhead and turn on the water to flush any remaining vinegar from the spouts. Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 15 May 2026 For faucet handles and spouts, use a baking soda paste. Kate Van Pelt, The Spruce, 1 May 2026
Verb
Trish coined the nickname, which is funny because Cannon never spouts off. E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025 Though the dream stalker is genuinely terrifying in the 1984 original, his cultural ubiquity grew as the character became less of a boogeyman than a kind of homicidal jester, one who spouts groan-worthy one-liners before spilling your guts. Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spouts
Noun
  • Start by making sure your gutters and downspouts are clean and directing water away from your home’s foundation.
    Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 19 July 2026
  • Rain barrel water, for example, is collected from rooftops and gutters where bird droppings and other contaminants may be present.
    Anthony Reardon, Kansas City Star, 15 July 2026
Noun
  • Spare a thought for the weary new Airbus A350-1000ULR, which is cooling its jets in Melbourne after completing its first-ever nonstop test flight from France.
    Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
  • Bahrain and Kuwait secretly sent fighter jets to bomb Iran, marking their first such attacks, sources told the Journal.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 25 July 2026
Verb
  • Aperol spritzes flowed off to one side, wine pours in the middle of the room, and plates of salads, seafood, paninis, pasta, and sweets were served—often by Vizzari and Dosio themselves.
    Lanee Lee, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
  • Celebrities with reach and personal reasons for going alcohol-free are now designing sparkling aperitifs, functional tonics, craft beers, wines and mixers built to sit comfortably next to anything a bartender pours.
    Lauren Jarvis-Gibson July 22, Charlotte Observer, 22 July 2026
Verb
  • And his ultimate war is with Bob, a tech CEO who rants about his haters and has gotten rich off rebranded snake oil and whose obvious corruption has been obscured by his self-mythologizing.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
  • One grumbles when the driver rants about development’s ravages.
    Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • This development forcibly ejects the mild-mannered mammal into both his parents’ den and the wild — literally — world of dating, where smelling suitors’ pee takes the place of an app profile.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 22 May 2026
  • At the same time, a salty liquid containing calcium chloride (a salt often used to de-ice roads) is pumped through the regenerator, which carries the heat away and ejects it to the surroundings on exit.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Under dark skies, the Milky Way visibly streams behind Deneb and through Altair like a river of stars.
    Jamie Carter, Space.com, 24 July 2026
  • Globally, the event streams on Paramount+ at no additional cost, while DAZN PPV will carry it in the UK and Ireland.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
Verb
  • The most forceful argument to this end comes during a sequence in Hades, when Sinon (Elliot Page, giving the film’s best performance) essentially spits on Odysseus’s ethical and narrative framework for the world.
    Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 21 July 2026
  • Lowry, in the meantime, would embark on a two-decade career in a league that spits out frauds on the regular.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 8 July 2026
Verb
  • When the aorta bursts, blood rushes through the tear, which often leads to sudden death.
    Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 13 July 2026
  • Blood rushes through the tear, causing the inner and middle layers of the aorta to split; normal blood flow throughout the body may slow or stop.
    Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 13 July 2026

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