Spurt
Encyclopedia
Spurt may refer to:
- A brief gushGushGush is sudden flow or excessive enthusiasm.Gush may also refer to:* Gush, French Touch Band...
, as of liquid spurting from an orificeOrificeAn orifice is any opening, mouth, hole or vent, as of a pipe, plate, or a body.* Body orifice* Orifice plate* Calibrated orifice* Nozzle* Back Orifice-See also:* Choked flow* Needle valve* Venturi effect* Flow measurement...
- Blood spurt
- Any sudden but not prolonged action
- Growth spurt, the increase in bone growth during puberty
- Strength spurt, the increase of muscle mass and physical strength during puberty
- Secretory protein in upper respiratory tracts, a gene encoding a secretory protein
See also
- SpurtleSpurtleThe spurtle is a Scots kitchen tool, dating from at least the fifteenth century. It was originally a flat, wooden, spatula-like utensil, used for flipping oatcakes on a hot griddle....
- Jet of BloodJet of BloodJet of Blood , also known as Spurt of Blood, is an extremely short play by the French Surrealist theatre practitioner, Antonin Artaud. Jet of Blood was completed in Paris, on January 17, 1925, perhaps in its entirety on that day alone...
(or Spurt of Blood), 1925 French surreal short play - Kogluktok, a waterfall in Canada named in Inuktitut for "spurts like an artery"
- Squirt (disambiguation)Squirt (disambiguation)Squirt or squirting can refer to the following:* A small, quick stream; a jet** Blood squirt* Squirt, slang for a small thing or person** Squirt division, the under-10 level of youth ice hockey in North America...
- SpirthillSpirthillSpirthill is a small hamlet in the county of Wiltshire in England, situated to the south of Lyneham, it is too small to be defined as a village and has no specific 'centre'...
- Spur (disambiguation)Spur (disambiguation)A spur is a metal instrument fastened to the heel of a horse rider.Spur may also refer to:*Features of plants, animals, and humans, including:...
- Sport (disambiguation)Sport (disambiguation)Sport is organised or unorganised recreation. Today it usually implies competition, usually implies following rules, and often means competitive sports and games. Originally in English, sport is leisure, as in hunting or fishing wildlife for entertainment rather than for subsistence or for the market...
- Spout (disambiguation)