英语词汇“squirt”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINsquirt1

Origin:

1400-1500 From the sound of something being squirted

VERB TABLE

squirt

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	squirt
	he, she, it	squirts
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	squirted
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have squirted
	he, she, it	has squirted
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had squirted
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will squirt
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have squirted

Continuous Form
Present	I	am squirting
	he, she, it	is squirting
	you, we, they	are squirting
Past	I, he, she, it	was squirting
	you, we, they	were squirting
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been squirting
	he, she, it	has been squirting
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been squirting
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be squirting
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been squirting

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

He squirted some ketchup on his fries.
Kids were squirting each other with water pistols.
The batter is squirted into round molds, then baked.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

A nuisance to be squashed on a countertop or squirted with pesticide.
And when squirted into the windpipes of mice, the viruses infected the animals' lungs and delivered the marker genes.
Crystal squirted me all over with scent even though it wouldn't show in a photograph.
Cyanide fishermen learn exactly where and when grouper go to spawn; they then squirt their poison with practiced precision.
I squirted some on my wrist.
Liquid plutonium is squirted in, waste is siphoned off.
Perhaps it goes through a tunnel and squirts itself out into another universe somewhere else.
The spiny newt protects itself by squirting poison into the mouths of predators.

Longman Language Activatorwith lots of hills or mountains► flow

if a liquid flows , it moves in a steady, continuous stream from one place to another: · The river flows more slowly here and it is safe to swim.flow into/out of/over: · From here, factory waste flows straight into the sea.· Tears flowed down her cheeks as she hugged her children.· Oil flowed from the tanker into the sea.

► come out

if liquid comes out of a pipe, container etc, it flows out fairly slowly and in fairly small quantities: · When I turned on the tap a brownish liquid came out.come out of: · There's oil coming out of your engine.· I can't get the ketchup to come out of the bottle.

► pour

if a liquid or substance pours out of something, large amounts flow out of it: pour out of/off/down etc: · Sweat poured down his face.· Water was pouring out of the release gates on the dam.· Rain poured through the open window, waking me again an hour later.· Lava from the volcano is pouring down the mountain towards the town.

► run

if a liquid runs somewhere, it flows quickly and smoothly; if a tap is running , water is flowing out of it: · Who left the faucet running?run along/down etc: · Tears ran down her face.· A stream runs along the bottom of the field.

► leak

if a liquid leaks from a container or pipe, or if a container or pipe leaks , the liquid comes out through a small hole or crack because the container or pipe is damaged: · I think the fuel tank is leaking.leak through/into/out of/from: · Water was leaking from a pipe in the bathroom.· Yoghurt had leaked out of the pot all over my lunchbox.

► drip

if a liquid drips , it falls slowly and steadily, in drops: drip off/out/onto etc: · The blood was still dripping from the cut on his lip.· We stood under a tree, with rain dripping onto our heads.· Wax from the candle dripped on the tablecloth.

► ooze

if a thick liquid, or a substance such as blood or mud, oozes out of something, it comes out of it slowly and steadily: ooze out of/from: · A mixture of mud and rainwater oozed out of the bottom of the bucket.· Blood was oozing from the wound.· Thick, sticky syrup oozes out of the tree trunk and is collected in buckets.

► gush

if a liquid gushes from something, or if something gushes it, it flows or pours out very quickly in large quantities: · The knife wound was gushing blood.gush out/from/down etc: · Oil gushed from the hole in the ship's hull.· A pipe burst in one of the apartments above, and water gushed down.

► trickle

if a liquid trickles somewhere, it flows slowly in drops or in a thin stream: trickle down/into/out: · Blood trickled down the side of her face. · Water trickled out of the pipe.· The fire spread when burning gasoline trickled from the car toward other vehicles.

► squirt

if you squirt liquid or it squirts , it is forced out of a narrow hole in a thin fast stream: · Kids were squirting each other with water pistols.squirt something on somebody/something: · He squirted some ketchup on his fries.squirt from/into: · The batter is squirted into round molds, then baked.

► spurt

if a liquid spurts or something spurts it, it comes out of something quickly and suddenly and with a lot of force: · The knife hit an artery, and the wound spurted blood.spurt from/out of/into: · Oil from the spill spurted into the crystal waters of Prince William Sound.· Water spurted from the burst pipe.

► cascade

to flow down something in large quantities: cascade from/into/down etc: · The walls of the cave are smooth, polished by the water cascading from above.· Water from the broken water main cascaded into a subway station.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► out

· And the Monster was pinching Ma's bosoms with its hideous clawed fingers so that blood squirted out.· The holds the body while the young red blood squirts out and slashes the base of the li in criss-cross patterns.· When fired you got pushed in the opposite direction to that in which the jet was squirting out.· Some fruit-eating birds can swallow fruit and only five minutes later squirt out the remains.· Various rocks show evidence that the lunar material has been melted, squirted out from volcanoes, and crushed by meteorite impacts.