Nozzle vs. Spout

Nozzlenoun

A short tube, usually tapering, forming the vent of a hose or pipe.

Spoutnoun

A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.

‘I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke.’;

Nozzlenoun

A short outlet or inlet pipe projecting from the end or side of a hollow vessel, as a steam-engine cylinder or a steam boiler.

Spoutnoun

A stream of liquid.

Nozzlenoun

The nose of an animal; muzzle.

Spoutnoun

The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale.

Nozzlenoun

The part of an earbud that accommodates eartips.

‘The shape of the nozzle prevents the use of aftermarket eartips.’;

Spoutverb

(intransitive) To gush forth in a jet or stream

‘Water spouts from a hole.’;

Nozzlenoun

The nose; the snout; hence, the projecting vent of anything; as, the nozzle of a bellows.

Spoutverb

(ambitransitive) To eject water or liquid in a jet.

‘The whale spouted.’;

Nozzlenoun

A short tube, usually tapering, forming the vent of a hose or pipe.

Spoutverb

(intransitive) To speak tediously or pompously.

Nozzlenoun

a projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged

Spoutverb

(transitive) To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.

Nozzlenoun

informal terms for the nose

Spoutverb

To pawn; to pledge.

‘to spout a watch’;

Nozzle

A nozzle is a device designed to control the direction or characteristics of a fluid flow (specially to increase velocity) as it exits (or enters) an enclosed chamber or pipe. A nozzle is often a pipe or tube of varying cross sectional area, and it can be used to direct or modify the flow of a fluid (liquid or gas).

Spoutverb

To throw out forcibly and abundantly, as liquids through an orifice or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk.

‘Who kept Jonas in the fish's mawTill he was spouted up at Ninivee?’; ‘Next on his belly floats the mighty whale . . . He spouts the tide.’;

Spoutverb

To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.

‘Pray, spout some French, son.’;

Spoutverb

To pawn; to pledge; as, to spout a watch.

Spoutverb

To issue with violence, or in a jet, as a liquid through a narrow orifice, or from a spout; as, water spouts from a hole; blood spouts from an artery.

‘All the glittering hillIs bright with spouting rills.’;

Spoutverb

To eject water or liquid in a jet.

Spoutverb

To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.

Spoutnoun

That through which anything spouts; a discharging lip, pipe, or orifice; a tube, pipe, or conductor of any kind through which a liquid is poured, or by which it is conveyed in a stream from one place to another; as, the spout of a teapot; a spout for conducting water from the roof of a building.

‘In whales . . . an ejection thereof [water] is contrived by a fistula, or spout, at the head.’; ‘From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide.’;

Spoutnoun

A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle.

Spoutnoun

A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout.

Spoutnoun

an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain

Spoutverb

gush forth in a sudden stream or jet;

‘water gushed forth’;

Spoutverb

talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner