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sputtering 音标拼音: [sp'ʌtɚɪŋ] n. 溅射 溅射 sputtering溅散 sputtering n 1: the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively; " he heard a spatter of gunfire" [ synonym: { spatter}, { spattering}, { splatter}, { splattering}, { sputter}, { splutter}, { sputtering}] Sputter \ Sput" ter\ ( sp[ u^] t" t[~ e] r), v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Sputtered} (- t[~ e] rd); p. pr. & vb. n. { Sputtering}.] [ From the root of spout or spit to eject from the mouth. Cf. { Splutter}.] 1. To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva. [ 1913 Webster] They could neither of them speak their rage, and so fell a sputtering at one another, like two roasting apples. -- Congreve. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering. [ 1913 Webster] Like the green wood . . . sputtering in the flame. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 24 Moby Thesaurus words for " sputtering": beating, clicking, dancing, desultory, drumming, flickering, flickery, flicky, fluttering, fluttery, guttering, palpitant, pounding, spattering, spluttering, sputtery, staccato, throbbing, thrumming, thumping, ticking, unsteady, wavering, wavery
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