sprin·kling

(sprĭng′klĭng)

1. A small amount or quantity; a modicum.

2. A small quantity scattered or sparsely distributed.

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sprinkling

(ˈsprɪŋklɪŋ)

a small quantity or amount: a sprinkling of common sense.

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sprin•kling

(ˈsprɪŋ klɪŋ)

n.

1. a small quantity scattered here and there.

2. a small quantity sprinkled or to be sprinkled.

[1400–50]

Sprinkling

a small amount falling in drops; a small number scattered here and there.

Examples: sprinkling of blood, 1835; of dung, 1760; of our gentry, 1621; of grey hairs, 1706; of mud, 1760; of people; of pepper; of rain, 1700; of salt, 1842; of foreign words, 1876.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	sprinkling - a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly; "the first scatterings of green"; "a sprinkling of grey at his temples" scattering small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity - an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude
	2.	sprinkling - a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby sprinkle, scattering rain shower, shower - a brief period of precipitation; "the game was interrupted by a brief shower"
	3.	sprinkling - the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare) aspersion baptism - a Christian sacrament signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth; "most churches baptize infants but some insist on adult baptism"
	4.	sprinkling - the act of sprinkling or splashing water; "baptized with a sprinkling of holy water"; "a sparge of warm water over the malt" sparge, sprinkle watering - wetting with water; "the lawn needs a great deal of watering"

sprinkling

noun scattering, dusting, scatter, few, dash, handful, sprinkle, smattering, admixture a light sprinkling of snow

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Translations

قَليلٌ من، رَشَّةٌ مِن

pártrocha

Paar

kevéske

reytingur

spruzzatina spruzzo

birkaç tek tük

少量

sprinkling

[ˈsprɪŋklɪŋ] N

1. (with water) → rociada f
a sprinkling of rain → unas gotitas de lluvia

2. (= small quantity) there was a sprinkling of young people → había unos cuantos jóvenes
a sprinkling of knowledge → unos pocos conocimientos

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

sprinkling

[ˈsprɪŋklɪŋ] n

(= small quantity or amount) [water] → quelques gouttes fpl; [salt] → pincée f; [sugar] → légère couche f; [snow] → fine couche f

(= small number)
a sprinkling of grey hairs → quelques (rares) cheveux blancs
a sprinkling of women ministers → quelques (rares) femmes ministres

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

sprinkling

n (of rain, dew etc) → ein paar Tropfen; (of sugar etc) → Prise f; (fig, of humour, comedy etc) → Anflug m; (of common sense) → Spur f; there was a sprinkling of grey in his hair → ein paar graue Fäden durchzogen sein Haar; there was a sprinkling of young people → es waren ein paar vereinzelte junge Leute da; a sprinkling of freckles → ein paar Sommersprossen; to give something a sprinkling (with water) → etw besprengen or besprenkeln

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

sprinkling

[ˈsprɪŋklɪŋ] n (of water, snow) → spruzzatina; (of salt, sugar) → pizzico
there was a sprinkling of young people → c'era qualche giovane

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

sprinkle

(ˈspriŋkl) verb

to scatter something over something else in small drops or bits. He sprinkled salt over his food; He sprinkled the roses with water.

ˈsprinkler noun

an apparatus for sprinkling eg water over a lawn.

ˈsprinkling noun

a small amount or a few. There were mostly women at the meeting but there was a sprinkling of men.

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"Your sprinkling is all wrong," he complained next.

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Very carefully he began sprinkling the Thing with the precious powder.

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That for six thousand years --and no one knows how many millions of ages before --the great whales should have been spouting all over the sea, and sprinkling and mistifying the gardens of the deep, as with so many sprinkling or mistifying pots; and that for some centuries back, thousands of hunters should have been close by the fountain of the whale, watching these sprinklings and spoutings --that all this should be, and yet, that down to this blessed minute (fifteen and a quarter minutes past one o'clock P.

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There was a tolerably fair sprinkling of young folks, and another fair sprinkling of gentlemen and ladies who were non-committal as to age, being neither actually old or absolutely young.

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The current of air, and the sprinkling of water over his face, soon produced their customary effect.

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And there, too, was a sprinkling of less distinguished Parliamentary Barnacles, who had not as yet got anything snug, and were going through their probation to prove their worthiness.

It was necessarily but a sprinkling of any class of Barnacles that attended the marriage, for there were not two score in all, and what is that subtracted from Legion!

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No servant will come here because the place is so lonely and out-of-the-way, so my clever husband, the Crooked Magician, proposed that I make a girl out of some sort of material and he would make her live by sprinkling over her the Powder of Life.

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Somewhere a storm was gathering, but only a small cloud had scattered some raindrops lightly, sprinkling the road and the sappy leaves.

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There must have been many open mouths and following eyes on board those ships - Dutch, English, with a sprinkling of Americans and a German or two - who had all hoisted their flags at eight o'clock as if in honour of our arrival.

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FAISALABAD -- Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) has installed sprinkling system in green-belts at Canal Road here.

PHA installs water sprinkling system at Canal Road

summery berry tartlets Ingredients 450g plain flour 1/2 tsp salt 200g Trex For the filling: 2 egg yolks 50g caster sugar 1/2 tsp vanilla extract 25g plain flour 300ml milk 225g mixed summer berries icing sugar, for sprinkling Method Sift the flour and salt into a bowl and rub in the Trex until the mixture looks like fine crumbs.

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