Meaning of Spew | Babel Free
spjuːDefinitions
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Vomit. slang, uncountable, usually
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Ejaculate or ejaculation. slang, uncountable, usually
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Nonsense or lies. uncountable, usually
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Material that has been ejected in a stream, or the act of spewing. uncountable, usually
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A white powder or dark crystals that appear on the surface of improperly tanned leather. uncountable, usually
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Adhesive that is squeezed from a joint under pressure and held across the joint by a fillet, thereby strengthening the joint. uncountable, usually
Examples
“Just after you've din'd, take a dish that is large, And into it what you have eaten discharge; Then get all the rest that are at the table, to spew in the same as long as they're able; Let them strain very hard, 'till all is brought up, For the more spew there is, the better the soup;”
“Poor old Sedgwick had been chased around the rugger pitch by a lunatic in a car, and then seen his researcher covered in spew from a drunken student.”
“It was a smart gesture on the part of the nanny agency, who is often dealing with mums who are returning to work — many of whom would welcome a complimentary makeover after months of sleep deprivation and baby spew.”
“'Harder to detect than ipecac or apomorphine hydrochloride.' 'Detect?' Parkhurst asked. 'In the spew.'”
“Sea urchins, for example, release between ten and one hundred billion sperm with every ejaculation. That's two orders of magnitude more than the few hundred million sperm per spew an average human bloke can dish out.”
“First thing you gotta have is some sort of confounding unfounded prejudicial spew and contrived agenda aimed at humanity.”
“I came out with it: “What were you doing listening to her spew that spew, anyway?”
“He felt the flimsy canvas yield without a whisper, devoured by the roaring bull of the truck, and the whiskey bottles shattered in a spew of brownish chaos, asparkle with the light, blown this way and that by the big vehicle's velocity.”
“Most men familiar with the handling of leather must occasionally have come across samples showing a whitish scum, or spew, upon the surface.”
“Out of 70 leather samples, 15 developed heavy spew in two to six months.”
“Plasticizer spew is determined by observation of samples bent through an arc of 180o.”
“The spew is represented by a triangular fillet 0.5 mm high. It can be seen that, because of the predominance of the major principal stress, the adhesive at the ends of the adhesive layer and in the spew fillet is essentially subjected to a tensile load at about 45° to the axis of loading. The highest stresses occur within the spew at the corner of the unloaded adherend, the presence of the 90° corner introducing a stress-concentration effect.”
“For a spew corner configuration shown in Figure 2.2 with the adhasive modulus far smaller than the adherent modulus, the order of the stress singularity in the corner A and B can be obtained from the WIlliam's solution under plane strian condition, and it is given in Figure 2.3. It is clear that spew corner would be free of singulatirites when the fillet angle is less than a critical angle, which is dependent on the Poisson's ration of the adhesive.”
“Besides bondline thickness control, the adhesive fillet (called adhesive spew) is an important issue in joint assembly. The spew is the result of the adhesive squeezed out of the lap region at the moment of the joint manufacture. It was shown that significant increases in shear strength of lap joints, compared with square-ended bondlines, can be achieved through the formation of an adhasive spew at the overlap ends.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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