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SPURT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)

Synonyms:

jet; spirt; spurt; squirt

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("spurt" is a kind of...):

discharge; outpouring; run (the pouring forth of a fluid)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spurt"):

spray (a jet of vapor)

spritz (a quick squirt of some liquid (usually carbonated water))

Derivation:

spurt (gush forth in a sudden stream or jet)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy

Synonyms:

forge; spirt; spurt

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "spurt" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Gush forth in a sudden stream or jet

Example:

water gushed forth

Synonyms:

gush; spirt; spout; spurt

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "spurt" is one way to...):

pour (flow in a spurt)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "spurt"):

pump (flow intermittently)

blow (spout moist air from the blowhole)

whoosh (gush or squirt out)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

spurt (the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid))

Credits

 Context examples: 

At the time I never questioned that it had spurted from some stricken Frenchman or Spaniard, and I shrank from him in terror when he laid his horny hand upon my head.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The castle was theirs, and the roaring flames were spurting through the windows and flickering high above the turrets on two sides of the quadrangle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When the blood began to spurt out, he took my hands in one of his, holding them tight, and with the other seized my neck and pressed my mouth to the wound, so that I must either suffocate or swallow some of the— Oh my God! my God! what have I done?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Our leader’s head came abreast of the off hind wheel, then of the off front one—then for a hundred yards we did not gain an inch, and then with a spurt the bay leader was neck to neck with the black wheeler, and our fore wheel within an inch of their hind one.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the great stone fireplace a log fire was spurting and crackling, throwing out a ruddy glare which, with the four bracket-lamps which stood at each corner of the room, gave a bright and lightsome air to the whole apartment.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had parried with his great bowie knife, and at first I thought that he too had come through in safety; but as he sprang beside Jonathan, who had by now jumped from the cart, I could see that with his left hand he was clutching at his side, and that the blood was spurting through his fingers.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He intoned a long whining rhyme in the French tongue, and at the end of every line he raised a thick cord, all jagged with pellets of lead, and smote his companion across the shoulders until the blood spurted again.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)