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Noun spate has 3 senses

batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew - (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty"
--₁ is a kind of large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount
--₁ has particulars: flood, inundation, deluge, torrent
rush, spate, surge, upsurge - a sudden forceful flow
--₂ is a kind of flow, flowing
--₂ has particulars: debris surge, debris storm; onrush
freshet, spate - the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow
--₃ is a kind of flow, flowing

Verb spat has 7 senses

spat - come down like raindrops; "Bullets were spatting down on us"
--₁ is one way to precipitate, come down, fall
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
spat - become permanently attached; "mollusks or oysters spat"
--₂ is one way to attach

Derived form: noun spat₃
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
spat - strike with a sound like that of falling rain; "Bullets were spatting the leaves"
--₃ is one way to hit, strike, impinge on, run into, collide with
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
applaud, clap, spat, acclaim - clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval
--₄ is one way to gesticulate, gesture, motion
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
spat - engage in a brief and petty quarrel
--₅ is one way to quarrel, dispute, scrap, argufy, altercate

Derived form: noun spat₁
Sample sentences:
Sam and Sue spat
Sam wants to spat with Sue
spat - spawn; "oysters spat"
--₆ is one way to spawn

Derived form: noun spat₃
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
clap, spat - clap one's hands together; "The children were clapping to the music"
--₇ is one way to gesticulate, gesture, motion
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s