Usually means: Applying small amounts of liquid.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. sprinkling: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sprinkling: Merriam-Webster
  3. sprinkling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sprinkling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sprinkling: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sprinkling: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sprinkling, sprinkling: Wordnik
  8. sprinkling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sprinkling: Wiktionary
  10. sprinkling: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sprinkling: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sprinkling: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sprinkling: Dictionary.com
  14. sprinkling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sprinkling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sprinkling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sprinkling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sprinkling: Rhymezone
  19. Sprinkling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sprinkling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. SPRINKLING: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. sprinkling: FreeDictionary.org
  23. sprinkling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. sprinkling: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sprinkling: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. sprinkling: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sprinkling: Encyclopedia

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  1. sprinkling: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sprinkling)

▸ noun:  The action of the verb to sprinkle.
▸ noun:  A small thinly distributed amount, e.g. of some liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled on to something.
▸ noun:  A light shower of rain.
▸ noun:  A scattering.

Similar:
scattering, aspersion, dabbling, prink, spray, springing, strewing, spread, bespatterer, spilling, more...

Opposite:
pouring, dumping, flooding, streaming

Types:
shower, drizzle, downpour, deluge, more...

Phrases:
sprinkling trust, sprinkling can, more...

Adjectives:
fair, liberal, good, generous, light, slight, small, mere, thin, considerable, large

Colors:
    light blue,     pastel pink,     mint green,     lavender,     soft yellow, more...



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Similar:
scattering, aspersion, dabbling, prink, spray, springing, strewing, spread, bespatterer, spilling, more...

Opposite:
pouring, dumping, flooding, streaming

Types:
shower, drizzle, downpour, deluge, more...

Phrases:
sprinkling trust, sprinkling can, more...

Adjectives:
fair, liberal, good, generous, light, slight, small, mere, thin, considerable, large

Colors:
    light blue,     pastel pink,     mint green,     lavender,     soft yellow, more...



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