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Definition: SPARGE |
SPARGETransitive verb1. To sprinkle; to moisten by sprinkling; as, to sparge paper. |
Etymology: Sparge \Sparge\, transitive verb. [Latin expression spargere; compare to French asperger.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Vaporization | Bubble, sparge, effervesce, boil. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SPARGE |
| Specialty definitions using "SPARGE": filter-press operator ♦ MASH-FILTER OPERATOR, mash-filter-press operator. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "SPARGE" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Italian (diffuses, disseminates, strews), Romanian (annihilate, batter, break, burst, chip away, chop, crack, crush, cut, dash, destroy, flaw, pick, rip, smash, snap, splinter, split). |
Expressions using "SPARGE": brine sparge ♦ sparge ring type milk cooler. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sparge | 10 |
air sparge | 5 |
no sparge | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SPARGE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | spërkat (asperse, bedew, besprinkle, damp, dampen, dash, dew, perfuse, plash, slosh, spatter, splash, splatter, spray, sprinkle, strew), nxjerr cikra. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pokropit (besprinkle, spatter, spray, sprinkle, water). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | halsringskoeler for maelkejunger (sparge ring type milk cooler), brineoverrisling (brine sparge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | pekelversproeing (brine sparge), bussenkoelring (sparge ring type milk cooler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | suolaveden pirskotus (brine sparge), maitokannujen kaulusrengasjäähdytin (sparge ring type milk cooler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | refroidisseur de lait collier d'aspersion (sparge ring type milk cooler), rampe de répandage (sparge pipe), distributrice pour liquides (sparge pipe), aspersion de saumure (brine sparge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Versprengen von Sole (brine sparge), Kannen-Ring-Rieselkuehler (sparge ring type milk cooler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | διασκορπισμός διαλύματος (brine sparge), ψύκτης γάλακτος με στεφάνη ψεκασμού (sparge ring type milk cooler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bekever. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | raffreddatore del latte per aspersione a collare (sparge ring type milk cooler), pioggia di salamoia (brine sparge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | argespay refrigerador de leite com colar de aspersão (sparge ring type milk cooler), aspersão de salmoura (brine sparge). (various references) stropi (asperse, beddable, besmear, besmirch, dabble, damp, dash, drop, irrigate, perfuse, smear, smirch, spatter, speck, splash, splatter, splutter, spray, sprinkle, sputter, squirt, water), uda (bedew, damp, dip, douse, drench, irrigate, moisten, soak, souse, splash, spray, sprinkle, squirt, stain, steep, wash, water, wet). (various references) обрызгивать (asperse, besprinkle). (various references) prskati (spatter, sprinkle, water), poprskati (bespatter, besprinkle, intersperse, slosh, splash, spray, sprinkle). (various references) refrigerador de leche de collar de aspersión (sparge ring type milk cooler), aspersión de salmuera (brine sparge). (various references) ringhalskylare för mjölkkannor (sparge ring type milk cooler), köldbäraröverstrilning (brine sparge). (various references) окропляти (bedrop), оббризкувати (asperse, bedew, besprinkle, spatter, splash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SPARGE": sparged, sparger, spargers, sparges. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "arge": Barge, marge. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gapers, gasper, grapes, pagers, parges. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: agers, apers, apres, asper, gaper, gapes, gears, grape, grasp, pager, pages, pares, parge, parse, peags, pears, prase, presa, rages, rapes, reaps, sager, sarge, spare, spear, sprag. | |
-2 letters: ager, ages, aper, apes, apse, ares, arse, ears, eras, ergs, gaes, gape, gaps, gars, gasp, gear, page, pare, pars, pase, peag, pear, peas, pegs, rage. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: gaspers, gawpers, grasped, grasper, pargets, presage, sparged, sparger, sparges. | |
+2 letters: asperges, earplugs, epigrams, garpikes, grapiest, grapnels, grapples, graspers, graupels, peerages, pergolas, plaguers, portages, presaged, presager, presages, primages, pugarees, rampages, resprang, spargers, speargun, spearing, trepangs, upgrades, warpages. | |
+3 letters: amperages, arpeggios, aspersing, bagpipers, creepages, disparage, dognapers, dragropes, epigraphs, escarping, gallopers, gapeworms, gazumpers, grampuses, graperies, grapeshot, graphemes, graphites, grapiness, graplines, grapplers, graspable, gunpapers, leapfrogs, megaspore, packagers, palsgrave, paragoges, parridges, parsonage, passenger, pasturage, paygrades, pegboards, pellagras, personage, pharynges, pillagers, playgoers, preassign, presagers, presaging, progerias, prophages, puggarees, rampagers, relapsing, repassage, repassing, repasting, reshaping, respacing, respading, scrappage, serigraph, spanglier, spearguns, spreading, trapesing, umpirages, upgathers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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