sputtering
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To emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
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To speak so rapidly as to emit saliva; to utter words hastily and indistinctly, with a spluttering sound, as in rage.
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To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
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To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions.
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To coat the surface of an object by sputtering.
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A noise that sputters.
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The ejection of atoms from the surface of a solid or liquid following bombardment with ions, atoms or molecules; used to prepare a thin layer of material on an object.
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