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Noun sprinkling has 4 senses
- scattering, sprinkling - a small number dispersed haphazardly; "the first scatterings of green"
--1 is a kind of small indefinite quantity, small indefinite amount
- scattering, sprinkle, sprinkling - a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby
--2 is a kind of shower, rain shower
- aspersion, sprinkling - the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare)
--3 is a kind of baptism
- sprinkle, sprinkling, sparge - the act of sprinkling or splashing water; "baptized with a sprinkling of holy water"; "a sparge of warm water over the malt"
--4 is a kind of watering
Verb sprinkle has 4 senses
- scatter, sprinkle, dot, dust, disperse - distribute loosely; "He scattered gun powder under the wagon"
--1 is one way to discharge
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
- sprinkle, splash, splosh - cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force; "She splashed the water around her"
--2 is one way to scatter, sprinkle, dot, dust, disperse
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
Somebody ----s something with something
- sprinkle, spit, spatter, patter, pitter-patter - rain gently; "It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick"
--3 is one way to rain, rain down
Sample sentence:
It is ----ing
- sprinkle, sparge, besprinkle - scatter with liquid; wet lightly; "Sprinkle the lawn"
--4 is one way to wet
Sample sentence:
They sprinkle the bread with melted butter
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