noun
Meaning 1
The action of the verb to sprinkle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
sprinkling
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noun
Meaning 2
A small thinly distributed amount, e.g. of some liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled on to something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dusting, smattering, sprinkle, ace, atom, thought, atomy, aught, bissel, bit, crumb, glimpse, dab, damn, dash, diddly, glint, dot, spatter, drop, fleck, glimmer, hint, flip, flyspeck, grain, halfpennyworth, inch, iota, jot, lick, mite, modicum, molecule, morceau, morsel, mote, ooch, ounce, particle, pennyworth, piece, pinch, relish, scantling, semblance, scent, scintilla, scooch, scrap, scruple, shred, skerrick, skoosh, skosh, sliver, smidge, smidgen, smidget, smidgy, smitch, smithereen, soupçon, spark, speck, speckle, spot, sprinkling, strain, tad, tidbit, tidge, tinge, tittle, toddick, touch, trace, trifle, tuppence worth, vestige, whiff, whit
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A light shower of rain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: flirt, skiff, sprinkle
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A scattering.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: diffusion, dispersion, spatter, spread, strewing
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
present participle and gerund of sprinkle
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
the act of sprinkling or splashing water
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- baptized with a sprinkling of holy water
- a sparge of warm water over the malt
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sprinkle, sparge
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: watering
noun
Meaning 7
the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: aspersion
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: baptism
noun
Meaning 8
a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: scattering, sprinkle
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: shower, rain shower
noun
Meaning 9
a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the first scatterings of green
- a sprinkling of grey at his temples
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: scattering
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: small indefinite quantity, small indefinite amount
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- German: Streuen — a thinly distributed liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled
- German: Streuung — a thinly distributed liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled
- German: Ausstreuen — a thinly distributed liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled
- German: Ausstreuung — a thinly distributed liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled
- German: Bestreuen — a thinly distributed liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled
- German: Bestreuung — a thinly distributed liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled
- German: Beregnen — a thinly distributed liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled
- German: Beregnung — a thinly distributed liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled
- German: Berieseln — a thinly distributed liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled
- German: Berieselung — a thinly distributed liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled
- German: Besprengen — a thinly distributed liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled
- German: Besprengung — a thinly distributed liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled
- German: Sprengen — a thinly distributed liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled
- German: Besprühen — a thinly distributed liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled
- German: Besprühung — a thinly distributed liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled
- German: Betropfen — a thinly distributed liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled
- German: Einstreuen — a thinly distributed liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled
- German: Einstreuung — a thinly distributed liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled
- Ottoman Turkish: صاچمه (saçma) — a thinly distributed liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled
- German: Einsprengsel — a thin distribion of something
- German: Prise — a thin distribion of something
- German: einige Wenige — a thin distribion of something
- German: Anstrich — a thin distribion of something
- Ottoman Turkish: صاچمه (saçma) — a thin distribion of something
- German: Sprühregen — a light shower of rain
- German: Nieseln — a light shower of rain
- German: Nieselregen — a light shower of rain
- German: Streuung — a scattering
- German: Zerstreuung — a scattering
- Ottoman Turkish: صاچمه (saçma) — a scattering
- Spanish: aspersión — the action of the verb to sprinkle