Definizione monolingua

sputter

sputter (third-person singular simple present sputters, present participle sputtering, simple past and past participle sputtered)

1. To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
2. To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.

   They could neither of them speak their rage, and so fell a sputtering at one another, like two roasting apples. -Congreve.

3. To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.

   Like the green wood...sputtering in the flame. -Dryden.

4. (transitive) To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech.

   In the midst of caresses, and without the last pretend incitement, to sputter out the basest accusations. -Swift.

5. (physics) (intransitive) To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions
6. (physics) (transitive) To coat the surface of an object by sputtering

sputter (uncountable)

1. Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.

Definizione dizionario sputter

farfugliare

sputacchiare

Altri significati:

To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.

(physics) (transitive) To coat the surface of an object by sputtering

To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.

Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.

(transitive) To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech.

To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.

To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking

(physics) (intransitive) To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions