sprue

See also: Sprue

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spɹuː/

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• Rhymes: -uː

Etymology 1

From Dutch spruw, sprouw. First described by William Hillary.

Noun

sprue (countable and uncountable, plural sprues)

1. (medicine) A tropical disease causing a sore throat and tongue, and disturbed digestion; psilosis.

Synonyms

• tropical sprue

Derived terms

• celiac sprue
• non-tropical sprue

Translations

malabsorption syndrome

• Dutch: tropische spruw, Indische spruw, aphthae tropicae, psilosis
• Portuguese: psilose f
• Spanish: esprúe m

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Noun

sprue (plural sprues)

A bronze casting showing the chimney-shaped sprue (material) and four risers

1. (founding) The hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold.
2. (founding) Material that cools in the feed channels to a mold.

Translations

hole allowing melted material into the mold

• Russian: ли́тник (ru) m (lítnik)

Material that cools in the feed channels to a mold

• German: Anguss m

See also

• flash

Verb

sprue (third-person singular simple present sprues, present participle spruing or sprueing, simple past and past participle sprued)

1. To remove the sprues (material left in feed channels) from a cast piece.
   • 1882 August 15, “Details of a brass and iron foundry”, in American Machinist‎^[1], page 3:

     In the brass spruing room is what is known as a Todd water tumbler, used for brass castings.

   • 1947, The Ney Inlay Book, J. M. Ney Company, page 17:

     The method adopted for sprueing the wax pattern is much more important to the success of the inlay than is generally realized.

   • 1976, Hazel Torres, Ann Beard Ehrlich, Modern Dental Assisting, page 662:

     The pattern is completed in its final contour, is then sprued, invested and burned out of the investment, and the gold alloy is cast in the same manner as when the indirect technique is utilized

   • 1985, Edward R. Dootz, “Technology of Casting and Soldering Alloys for Metal-Ceramic Applications”, in Conference on Recent Developments in Dental Ceramics, volume 6, numbers 1–2, page 86:

     If we are to cast a simple pattern like a small ball we have at least three methods of sprueing the wax pattern (Fig. 6).

   • 1985, Howard Hitchcock, Out of the Fiery Furnace: Casting Sculpture from Ceramic Shell Molds, Los Altos, Calif.: William Kaufmann, Inc., →ISBN, page 50:

     To provide for constructing and sprueing the wax sculpture, as described in Chapters 1 and 2, we must obviously have a wax working area, which in a foundry may also be referred to as the patternmaking area.

Anagrams

• Pre-Us, Purse, Rupes, puers, pures, purse, re-ups, reups, rupes, super, super-

French

Noun

sprue f (plural sprues)

1. sprue

Further reading

• “sprue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Alternative forms

• spru

Etymology

Borrowed from English sprue.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈspru.e/
• Rhymes: -ue
• Hyphenation: sprù‧e

Noun

sprue f (uncountable)

1. (pathology) sprue

Derived terms

• antisprue

Further reading

• sprue in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• pruse, ruspe, super, super-