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Dictionary Results For "spate" [?]/[OPML]
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English

Pronunciation


Noun

spate

  1. a string, series or trend
  2. :There has been a recent spate of burglary in the neighborhood.
  3. A river flood; an overflow or inundation.


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Romanian

Etymology

spatula from classical Latin spathae

Noun

  1. shoulder
  2. back


Declension

Category:ro:Anatomy

el:spate es:spate fr:spate hu:spate pl:spate ta:spate vi:spate zh:spate

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Spate \Spate\, n. [Of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. speid.]
A river flood; an overflow or inundation. --Burns.
[1913 Webster]

Gareth in a showerful spring
Stared at the spate. --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet spate
n 1: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;
"a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of
money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must
have cost plenty" [syn: batch, deal, flock, {good
deal}, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess,
mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot,
quite a little, raft, sight, slew, stack, {tidy
sum}, wad, whole lot, whole slew]
2: a sudden forceful flow [syn: rush, surge, upsurge]
3: the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or
melting snow [syn: freshet]
Moby Dictionary
Niagara
, abundance , acres , affluence , afflux , affluxion ,
ample sufficiency
, ampleness , amplitude , army , asperse , avalanche ,
bags
, barrels , batch , befoul , belch , bespatter , bespot , blacken ,
bonanza
, bountifulness , bountiousness , brash , bumper crop , burst ,
burst of rain
, bushel , cascade , cataclysm , cataract , cloudburst ,
cluster
, cohue , concourse , confluence , conflux , considerable ,
copiousness
, countlessness , course , crosscurrent , crowd , crush ,
current
, deal , debouchment , defame , defluxion , deluge , denigrate ,
dissiliency
, douse , downfall , downflow , downpour , drencher , drift ,
driftage
, embarras de richesses , enough , eructation , eruption ,
extravagance
, extravagancy , exuberance , fertility , flare-up , flock ,
flood
, flooding , flow , flowing , fluency , flux , foison , fresh ,
freshet
, full measure , fullness , galaxy , generosity , generousness ,
gobs
, good deal , great abundance , great deal , great plenty , gush ,
gushing rain
, heap , heaps , heavy rain , horde , host , inflow ,
inundation
, jam , jet , landslide , lashings , lavishness , legion ,
liberality
, liberalness , load , loads , lot , lots , luxuriance , mass ,
maximum
, mess , mill run , millrace , mint , mob , money to burn ,
more than enough
, mountain , much , multitude , myriad , myriads ,
numerousness
, ocean , oceans , onrush , onset , onward course , oodles ,
opulence
, opulency , outbreak , outburst , outflow , outflowing ,
outpouring
, overabundance , overaccumulation , overbounteousness ,
overcopiousness
, overdose , overflow , overlavishness ,
overluxuriance
, overmeasure , overmuchness , overnumerousness ,
overplentifulness
, overplenty , overpopulation , overprofusion ,
oversufficiency
, oversupply , pack , panoply , peck , pile , piles ,
plash
, plenitude , plenteousness , plentifulness , plenty , plethora ,
pot
, pour , press , prevalence , prodigality , productiveness ,
profuseness
, profusion , progression , quantities , quantity ,
quite a little
, rabble , race , raft , rafts , rain , rainburst ,
rainspout
, rainstorm , rapids , redundancy , repleteness , repletion ,
rich harvest
, rich vein , richness , riot , riotousness , river , rout ,
ruck
, run , rush , scads , scud , sea , series , set , shower , sight ,
slew
, slews , slop , slosh , slur , smear , soaker , soaking rain ,
sparge
, spew , spit , splatter , splosh , splurge , splutter , spout ,
spurt
, spurtle , stack , stacks , stream , substantiality ,
substantialness
, succession , superabundance , superfluity ,
superflux
, surge , swash , teemingness , throng , tide , tidy sum , tons ,
torrent
, torrent of rain , traduce , trend , undercurrent , undertow ,
volcan
, volume , wad , wads , water flow , waterflood , waterspout ,
wealth
, whole slew , world , worlds


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