fountain vs slump

fountain

verb
  • To flow or gush as if from a fountain. 

noun
  • An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure. 

  • A natural source of water; a spring. 

  • A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn. 

  • A source or origin of a flow (e.g., of favors or knowledge). 

  • A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that throws it. 

  • A roundel barry wavy argent and azure. 

  • A ground-based firework that projects sparks similar to a water fountain. 

  • Anything that resembles a fountain in operation. 

  • The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue. 

  • A drink poured from a soda fountain, or the cup it is poured into. 

  • A soda fountain. 

slump

verb
  • To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc. 

  • To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unsconscious; to kill. 

  • To collapse heavily or helplessly. 

  • To lump; to throw together messily. 

  • To slouch or droop. 

  • To decline or fall off in activity or performance. 

noun
  • A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating. 

  • A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed. 

  • The gross amount; the mass; the lump. 

  • A boggy place. 

  • A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period. 

  • The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place. 

  • A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove. 

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