A spill occurs when the contents of something, usually in liquid form, are emptied out onto a surface, person or clothes, often unintentionally.
Spill may also refer to:
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Oil spill
An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially the marine ecosystem, due to human activity, and is a form of pollution. The term is usually given to marine oil spills, where oil is released into th ...
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Chemical spill A chemical accident is the unintentional release of one or more chemical hazard substances which could harm human health and the environment. Such events include fires, explosions, leakages or release of toxic or hazardous materials that can cause ...
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Data spill
A data breach is a security violation, in which sensitive, protected or confidential data is copied, transmitted, viewed, stolen or used by an individual unauthorized to do so. Other terms are unintentional information disclosure, data leak, info ...
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Leadership spill
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Spill (audio), where audio from one source is picked up by a microphone intended for a different source
*Variable spilling, a side effect of
register allocation
*Thin sticks of wood or tightly rolled paper tapers, used for transferring fire, and stored in a
spill vase
*SPILL – an acronym for St Pancras International Low Level, the Thameslink platforms at
St Pancras railway station
St Pancras railway station (), also known as London St Pancras or St Pancras International and officially since 2007 as London St Pancras International, is a central London railway terminus on Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden. It is ...
in London
As a proper name
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Thomas Spilsbury, soccer player nicknamed ''Spill''
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Spill (band), a British dance duo
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Spill.com
Spill.com was a movie and video game review, discussion and news website. It was the continuation of the 9-year-old Austin, Texas-based public-access television cable TV show called '' The Reel Deal''. There were four main film critic contributo ...
, a movie review website
People with the surname
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Daniel Spill (1832–1887), English entrepreneur
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Steve Spill
Steve Spill (born Steven Spillman; San Francisco, California; 3 January 1955) is an American magician and founder of Magicopolis, a 150-seat theater that opened in 1998 in Santa Monica, California, where Spill performs sleight-of-hand and large-s ...
(born 1955), American magician
Literature
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Spill. En damroman
''Spill. En damroman'' (lit. Spill. A Lady's Novel) is a 2010 novel by Swedish author Sigrid Combüchen. It won the August Prize
The August Prize ( sv, Augustpriset) is an annual Swedish literary prize awarded each year since 1989 by the Swedish ...
'', a 2010 Swedish novel by Sigrid Combüchen
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Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity'', a 2017 book of prose and poetry by Alexis Pauline Gumbs.
See also
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Spilling water for luck
Spilling water for luck is a folk custom in Armenia, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, Iraq, Iran and other nearby countries. According to folk belief, spilling water behind the person who goes on a journey, or to do a job, will bring good ...
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Spilling salt
A superstition in Western cultures holds that spilling salt is an evil omen. However, salt has had a variety of meanings in religions around the world.
History
The European belief in the ill luck that comes from spilt salt is quite old, going ...
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