The difference between Nozzle and Spout
When used as nouns, nozzle means a short tube, usually tapering, forming the vent of a hose or pipe, whereas spout means a tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.
Spout is also verb with the meaning: to gush forth in a jet or stream.
check bellow for the other definitions of Nozzle and Spout
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Nozzle as a noun:
A short tube, usually tapering, forming the vent of a hose or pipe.
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Nozzle as a noun:
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.
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Nozzle as a noun:
The nose of an animal; muzzle.
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Spout as a noun:
A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.
Examples:
"I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke."
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Spout as a noun:
A stream of liquid.
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Spout as a noun:
The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale.
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Spout as a verb (intransitive):
To gush forth in a jet or stream
Examples:
"Water spouts from a hole."
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Spout as a verb (ambitransitive):
To eject water or liquid in a jet.
Examples:
"The whale spouted."
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Spout as a verb (intransitive):
To speak tediously or pompously.
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Spout as a verb (transitive):
To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
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Spout as a verb (transitive, slang, dated):
To pawn; to pledge.
Examples:
"to spout a watch"