how to pronounce sprue

/spɹuː/

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sprue is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of sprue in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… a hole there and that's the sprue that's …”

meanings of sprue

noun:

A tropical disease causing a sore throat and tongue, and disturbed digestion; psilosis.
Material that cools in the feed channels to a mold.
The hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold.

verb:

To remove the sprues (material left in feed channels) from a cast piece.

sprue frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word sprue occurs in english on average 0 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics sprue can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that sprue can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) life, nature, and living environment;