Found 3 items, similar to Spurt.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: spurt
memuncrat, muncrat
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: spurt
spurt
n : the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid) [syn:
jet,
squirt,
spirt]
spurt
v 1: gush forth in a sudden stream or jet;
“water gushed forth”
[syn:
spirt,
gush,
spout]
2: move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy [syn:
forge,
spirt]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Spurt
Spurt
\Spurt\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Spurted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Spurting.]
To make a sudden and violent exertion, as in an emergency.
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Spurt
\Spurt\ (sp[^u]rt), v. i. [Written also spirt, and
originally the same word as sprit; OE. sprutten to sprout,
AS. spryttan. See
Sprit, v. i.,
Sprout, v. i.]
To gush or issue suddenly or violently out in a stream, as
liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small
stream or jet; to spirt.
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Thus the small jet, which hasty hands unlock,
Spurts in the gardener's eyes who turns the cock.
--Pope.
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Spurt
\Spurt\, v. t.
To throw out, as a liquid, in a stream or jet; to drive or
force out with violence, as a liquid from a pipe or small
orifice; as, to spurt water from the mouth.
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Spurt
\Spurt\, n.
1. A sudden or violent ejection or gushing of a liquid, as of
water from a tube, orifice, or other confined place, or of
blood from a wound; a jet; a spirt.
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2. A shoot; a bud. [Obs.] --Holland.
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3. Fig.: A sudden outbreak; as, a spurt of jealousy.
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Spurt grass (Bot.), a rush fit for basket work. --Dr.
Prior.
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Spurt
\Spurt\ (sp[^u]rt), n. [Cf. Icel. sprettr a spurt, spring,
run, spretta to spirt, spring.]
A sudden and energetic effort, as in an emergency; an
increased exertion for a brief space.
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The long, steady sweep of the so-called
“paddle”
tried him almost as much as the breathless strain of
the spurt. --T. Hughes.
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