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Spelling
- verb - forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage
- indicate or signify; "I'm afraid this spells trouble!"
- orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of; "How do you spell this word?" "We had to spell out our names for the police officer"
- place under a spell
- relieve (someone) from work by taking a turn; "She spelled her husband at the wheel"
- take turns working; "the workers spell every four hours"
- write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word); "He spelled the word wrong in this letter"
Sperling
- - A smelt; a sparling. [Prov. Eng.] (b) A young herring.
Spieling
- verb - replay (as a melody); "Play it again, Sam"; "She played the third movement very beautifully"
- speak at great length (about something)
Spilling
- verb - cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container; "spill the milk"; "splatter water"
- cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over; "spill the beans all over the table"
- flow, run or fall out and become lost; "The milk spilled across the floor"; "The wine spilled onto the table"
- pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities; "shed tears"; "spill blood"; "God shed His grace on Thee"
- reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail)
- reveal information; "If you don't oblige me, I'll talk!"; "The former employee spilled all the details"
Spoiling
- verb - alter from the original
- become unfit for consumption or use; "the meat must be eaten before it spoils"
- destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the beautiful country"
- have a strong desire or urge to do something; "She is itching to start the project"; "He is spoiling for a fight"
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
- make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty"
- the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it; "her spoiling my dress was deliberate"
- the process of becoming spoiled
- treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"
Spooling
- verb - transfer data intended for a peripheral device (usually a printer) into temporary storage
- wind onto a spool or a reel
Stabling
- verb - accommodation for animals (especially for horses)
- shelter in a stable; "stable horses"
Stalling
- verb - a tactic used to mislead or delay
- cause an airplane to go into a stall
- cause an engine to stop; "The inexperienced driver kept stalling the car"
- come to a stop; "The car stalled in the driveway"
- deliberately delay an event or action; "she doesn't want to write the report, so she is stalling"
- experience a stall in flight, of airplanes
- postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days"
- put into, or keep in, a stall; "Stall the horse"