sprinkle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A light covering with a sprinkled substance.
    — He decorated the Christmas card with a sprinkle of glitter.
  2. A light rain shower.
  3. An aspersorium or utensil for sprinkling.
  4. A small hard piece of sugar and starch, or chocolate, used to decorate cakes etc.
动词 v.
  1. To cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance). transitive
    — The confectioner sprinkled icing sugar over the cakes.
  2. To cover (an object) by sprinkling a substance on to it. transitive
    — The confectioner sprinkled the cakes with icing sugar.
  3. To drip in fine drops, sometimes sporadically. intransitive
    — It sprinkled outside all day long.
  4. To rain very lightly outside. intransitive
    — It sprinkled very early in the morning.
  5. To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify. transitive
    — having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience

词形变化

sprinkles present,singular,third-person sprinkling participle,present sprinkled participle,past sprinkled past sprinkles plural

词汇关系

近义词
dust sift
衍生词
besprinkle besprinkled intersprinkle oversprinkle presprinkle sprinkler sprinklingly sprinkly unsprinkled holy-water sprinkle

词源

词源 1
From Middle English sprenkelen, sprynklen, from Middle Dutch sprenkelen, equivalent to sprink + -le (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Dutch sprenkelen (“to sprinkle”), German Low German sprenkeln (“to sprinkle; dapple”), German sprenkeln (“to sprinkle”).
词源 2
From Middle English sprenkelen, sprynklen, from Middle Dutch sprenkelen, equivalent to sprink + -le (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Dutch sprenkelen (“to sprinkle”), German Low German sprenkeln (“to sprinkle; dapple”), German sprenkeln (“to sprinkle”).
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