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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024sprin•kler (spring′klər),USA pronunciation n. - any of various devices for sprinkling, as a watering pot, a container of water with a perforated top used to sprinkle clothes before ironing, or esp. a perforated ring or small stand with a revolving nozzle to which a hose is attached for watering a lawn with a fine, even spray.
- a person who sprinkles.
v.t. - Buildingto provide (a warehouse, school, office building, etc.) with a sprinkler system.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: ˈsprinkler /ˈsprɪŋklə/ n - a device perforated with small holes that is attached to a garden hose or watering can and used to spray plants, lawns, etc, with water
- a person or thing that sprinkles
- See sprinkler system
sprin•kle /ˈsprɪŋkəl/USA pronunciation v., -kled, -kling, n. v. - to scatter in drops or particles: [~ + object]sprinkling water on the flowers.[no object* (~ + down)]The water sprinkled down on the flowers.
- to scatter drops or particles of water, powder, or the like on (something):[~ + object]to sprinkle a lawn.
- Meteorology to rain slightly in scattered drops:[no object* it + ~]It's sprinkling a little.
- to scatter or distribute (something) in different places or at various times:[~ + object]He sprinkled a few jokes into his speech.
n. [countable] - an act or instance of sprinkling.
- Meteorologya light rain.
sprin•kler, n. [countable]An automatic sprinkler comes on when there's a fire. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024sprin•kle (spring′kəl),USA pronunciation v., -kled, -kling, n. v.t. - to scatter (a liquid, powder, etc.) in drops or particles:She sprinkled powder on the baby.
- to disperse or distribute here and there.
- to overspread with drops or particles of water, powder, or the like:to sprinkle a lawn.
- to diversify or intersperse with objects scattered here and there.
v.i. - to scatter or disperse liquid, a powder, etc., in drops or particles.
- to be sprinkled.
- Meteorologyto rain slightly (often used impersonally with it as subject):It may sprinkle this evening.
n. - the act or an instance of sprinkling.
- something used for sprinkling.
- FoodUsually, sprinkles. small particles of chocolate, candy, sugar, etc., used as a decorative topping for cookies, cakes, ice-cream cones, and the like.
- Meteorologya light rain.
- a small quantity or number.
- 1350–1400; Middle English sprenklen (verb, verbal); cognate with Dutch sprenkelen, German sprenkeln; akin to Old English sprengan to sprinkle, make (something) spring, scatter, causative of springan to spring
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged distribute, rain. Sprinkle, scatter, strew mean to fling, spread, or disperse. To sprinkle means to fling about small drops or particles:to sprinkle water on clothes, powder on plants.To scatter is to disperse or spread widely:to scatter seeds.To strew is to scatter, esp. in such a way as to cover or partially cover a surface:to strew flowers on a grave.
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