Associations to the word «Sputtering»

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

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

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

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

SPUTTER, verb. (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.

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

SPUTTER, verb. (physics) (transitive) To coat the surface of an object by sputtering

SPUTTER, noun. The noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively; "he heard a spatter of gunfire".

SPUTTER, noun. An utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage).

SPUTTER, verb. Make an explosive sound; "sputtering engines".

SPUTTER, verb. Cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed; "The solar wind protons must sputter away the surface atoms of the dust".

SPUTTER, verb. Climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling.

SPUTTER, verb. Utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage.

SPUTTER, verb. Spit up in an explosive manner.