Significado de spill en inglés

spill

verb [ I or T, usually + adv/prep ]

/spɪl/ us

/spɪl/

spilled or UK also spilt | spilled or UK also spilt

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to (cause to) flow, move, fall, or spread over the edge or outside the limits of something:

I spilled coffee on my silk shirt.

You've spilled something down your tie.

Let's see if I can pour the juice into the glass without spilling it.

He dropped a bag of sugar and it spilled all over the floor.

Crowds of fans spilled onto the field at the end of the game.

Sinónimos

dribble  (FLOW SLOWLY)
drip 
flow  (MOVE)
trickle down, from, out of, etc. something

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Don't fill your glass too full or you'll spill it.
If you funnel the oil into the engine, you're less likely to spill it.
You've made me spill my drink, you prat!
The contents of his bag spilled all over the floor.
Josh had an accident and spilled water all over his work.

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Expresiones

spill blood
spill the beans
spill your guts

Verbos frasales

spill out
spill (something) out
spill over

spill

noun [ C ]

/spɪl/ us

/spɪl/

spill noun [C] (LIQUID)

an amount of something that has come out of a container:

a fuel spill on the road

Could you wipe up that spill, please?

In 1989, there was a massive oil spill in Alaska.

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spill noun [C] (POLITICS)

politics Australian English

an occasion when someone is removed from a position of power in a party or government and replaced:

The Premier will keep his job despite backbencher attempts to initiate a spill.

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Expresión

take a spill

(Definición de spill del Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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spill

verb [ I/T ]

/spɪl/

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to cause a liquid to flow or fall over the edge of a container or beyond the limits of something, or of a liquid to flow or fall in this way:

[ T ] I just spilled gravy on my shirt.

[ T ] He tried to fill the sugar bowl and managed to spill sugar all over the floor.

[ I ] Some milk spilled on the floor.

Expresión

spill the beans

Verbo frasal

spill over

spill

noun [ C ]

/spɪl/

an amount of something that has flowed or fallen out of a container:

The tanker started to leak oil and officials worried about a major oil spill.

A spill is also a fall:

Jockey Luis Ortega suffered a broken ankle in a spill at Hollywood Park yesterday.

(Definición de spill del Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Ejemplos de spill

spill

The cold fusion claims of 1989, in contrast, attracted criticism that spilled over from the purely theoretic domain to the professional one.

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Elemental analyses of this deteriorated wood showed high levels of copper, chromium, iron, and lead, suggesting that a caustic chemical spill had occurred.

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The detection of unexpected coherent echoes by incoherent scatter radars raises important questions concerning the generation mechanisms that spill over into coherent radars.

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Some benefit is obtained from 'spill-air' from the air-conditioned courtrooms and offices, which escapes into the atrium from the balconies.

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The darkly stained surface soil in the depot area also suggests that other petroleum products were spilled at the site.

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Little is known about the relationship between sub-surface interflow within the spill zone and hydrologic connection with the river.

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Their empirical results show the effects of choosing different methods for implementing the linear scan, including instruction ordering, liveness analysis, renaming, and spilling heuristics.

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Issues and problems relating to fishing, hydrocarbon exploration, tourism and communications clearly spill over national borders (regardless of whether those borders are actually contested).

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If varieties developed abroad by private research spill in directly into the domestic market then domestic private investment could be discouraged.

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Human infections are relatively rare accidental spill-overs from this wildlife cycle.

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This difference suggests that there is some sort of difference on the mobilizing effects of oil spills and nuclear plant accidents.

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Such fires which could trigger major oil spills.

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This suggests a different (higher) volume of released fuel, a different timing for the fuel spill, or other factors related to the site itself.

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Such observations and models are far removed from past assumptions that spills in polar regions either evaporate or remain frozen and trapped in the ground.

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The overall layout of the book is at times unhelpful: tables and diagrams spill into margins and generally look cramped and untidy.

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en chino (tradicional)

（使）灑出, （使）流出, （使）濺出…

Significado de spill en inglés

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spill noun [C] (LIQUID)

spill noun [C] (POLITICS)

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