spit

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

spits

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

spit

past (v2)

spitted

past participle (v3)

spitted

present participle

spitting

3rd person singular

spits

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire.

2. 2.A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula or bar.

   • Playa margins are dominated by relict shoreline features, such as wave-cut terraces, depositional beach ridges, and offshore bars and spits.
   • Chiao Shih, 44 feet high, lies about 1/2 mile southeastward of Ko-li, a 199-foot islet, that lies close off the south end of Pei-kan-t’ang Tao and is connected to it by a stoney spit.

3. 3.Saliva, especially when expectorated.

   • There was spit all over the washbasin.

4. 4.An instance of spitting; specifically, a light fall of rain or snow.

   • It was early winter in the southern continent, a season of rain and winds and mud, and indeed coals in a nearby brazier hissed with a few spits of rain.

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.

   • Yes there were times, I'm sure you knew/When I bit off more than I could chew/But through it all, when there was doubt/I ate it up and spit it out.
   • When the mighty duststorm, silent and terrifying, first engulfed her, she thought she would choke. Spitting dust from her dry lips, she ran indoors to protect the children, and found them coughing.
   • The 47-year-old had allegedly been spat at by a passenger at London Victoria who said he had the virus, although a subsequent police investigation concluded that there was insufficient evidence to charge anyone.

2. 2.To emit or expel in a manner similar to evacuating saliva from the mouth.

   • The wag zigzagged across the field, bumping over ruts in the soil and tangled grass as a stream of bullets followed them from the high-mounted railguns, spitting sparks from the metal sides of the wag.

3. 3.To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object.

   • Fried or roast mice, spitted on sticks like kebabs, are often offered for sale by the roadside.

4. 4.To use a spit to cook; to attend to food that is cooking on a spit.

   • She’s spitting the roast in the kitchen.

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