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Slopped amount
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spillage
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In industrial production , spillage is the loss of production output due to production of a series of defective or unacceptable products which must be rejected. Spillage is an often costly event which occurs in manufacturing when a process degradation or ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN oil ▪ Walkers on the banks of the River Tees first spotted the oil spillage . ▪ The booms, which were due to be removed yesterday absorbed the oil spillage and stopped it from flowing downstream. ▪ Shell, recently fined ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. that which has been spilled
Usage examples of spillage.
She stood just where the spillage of warm light from the window reached her boots, as if waiting for a tide to advance.
Drawn by the spillage or non-native nutrients or, after a while, by the meat of earlier visiting animals, they had eaten and drunk here.
The fronts had been slashed open and rainwater had soaked the spillage, turning it to hard knuckles of concrete.
Alyeska employees had been working feverishly during that time to clean up and minimize the effects of the accident, to remove the evidence of a major spillage and to conceal the fact that their failsafe system had failed dangerously.
The note announcing their intention of causing a slight spillage of oil seemed civil and civilized enough, with no hint of violence, but violence there has been.
At the very worst the spillage could be restricted to fifty thousand barrels.
In another moment, as I slipped backwards across a spillage of milk, Stropcock was on top of me, his knees driving hard into my ribs and pushing the breath out of me whilst his hands encircled my throat.
I laid it down on the otherwise empty dresser beside a mark where a small spillage had blistered the varnish.
The old woman covered her eyes against the spillage from the jacket, fearful of its power.
There were no datelines, printed or otherwise, and each page-was crammed to the margins with a spillage of words, writing as he spoke, in staccato bursts of information.
She blossomed then into a dreadful flower of blue and yellow flame from the center of which there was a spillage of wreckage, animate and inanimate.
Cholayna was head-blind and a Terran, and there should be no such involuntary spillage of emotions.
Emuin said then, and losing all good humor, sketched some figure in the spillage of water on the table.
If spillage of your emission is willed as end or means, you have committed the sin of sins.
That spillage, that pond, was the most profligate consumption of resource possible, and the mad wondered at it, and called that reed-rimmed pool a mirage.