Betekenis van spill In het Nederlands

• 0 to (cause to) flow, move, fall, or spread over the edge or outside the limits of something:

  • I spilled coffee on my silk shirt.

  • You've spilled something down your tie.

  • Let's see if I can pour the juice into the glass without spilling it.

  • He dropped a bag of sugar and it spilled all over the floor.

  • Crowds of fans spilled onto the field at the end of the game.

• 1 an amount of something that has come out of a container:

  • a fuel spill on the road

  • Could you wipe up that spill, please?

  • In 1989, there was a massive oil spill in Alaska.

• 2 an occasion when someone is removed from a position of power in a party or government and replaced:

  • The Premier will keep his job despite backbencher attempts to initiate a spill.

• 3 to cause a liquid to flow or fall over the edge of a container or beyond the limits of something, or of a liquid to flow or fall in this way:

  • [ T ] I just spilled gravy on my shirt.

  • [ T ] He tried to fill the sugar bowl and managed to spill sugar all over the floor.

  • [ I ] Some milk spilled on the floor.

• 4 an amount of something that has flowed or fallen out of a container:

  • The tanker started to leak oil and officials worried about a major oil spill.

  • Jockey Luis Ortega suffered a broken ankle in a spill at Hollywood Park yesterday.