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

  1. Nozzle as a noun:

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

  2. 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.

  3. Nozzle as a noun:

    The nose of an animal; muzzle.

  1. 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."

  2. Spout as a noun:

    A stream of liquid.

  3. Spout as a noun:

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

  1. Spout as a verb (intransitive):

    To gush forth in a jet or stream

    Examples:

    "Water spouts from a hole."

  2. Spout as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To eject water or liquid in a jet.

    Examples:

    "The whale spouted."

  3. Spout as a verb (intransitive):

    To speak tediously or pompously.

  4. Spout as a verb (transitive):

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

  5. Spout as a verb (transitive, slang, dated):

    To pawn; to pledge.

    Examples:

    "to spout a watch"

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