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Definition: Sprinkler |
SprinklerNoun1. Mechanical device that attaches to a garden hose for watering lawn or garden. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sprinkler" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
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Engineering & Technology | Device which scatters a fire-fighting liquid in fine drops as a fire protection system. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | Système automatique contre les incendies dans les usines. Source: European Union. (references) |
| An automatic -- equipment for fire. . . extinguishment whereby water is piped to specially designed orifices. . . distributed throughout a property and operated automatically. . . Source: European Union. (references) | |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Insulation, Fire extinction | Wet blanket; fire extinguisher, soda and acid extinguisher, dry chemical extinguisher, CO-two extinguisher, carbon tetrachloride, foam; sprinklers, automatic sprinkler system; fire bucket, sand bucket. |
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Lyrics | Put the sprinkler on the lawn (Pinch Me; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies) | |
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 | Janice Richardson (left), NRCS Soil Conservation Technician, and Amber Bilak, Earth Team Volunteer assess irrigation efficiency on a side wheel roll sprinkler in an alfalfa field near Santaquin, UT. [Slide 97CS3148]. Credit: Ron Nichols. |  | Low sprinkler irrigation is used to provide water for citrus trees. Credit: Tim McCabe. |
 | Mainline for handline sprinkler irrigation, Yuma, Az. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |  | Close-up of sprinkler head on handline irrigation system. Yuma, Az. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |
 | Center pivot sprinkler irrigation system. Credit: Mark Olson. |  | Handline sprinkler irrigation system. Credit: Charma Comer. |
 | Pivot sprinkler system in Jefferson County. Credit: Howard Johnson. |  | Ranchers in the Salmon Model Watershed are converting flood irrigation systems to sprinkler irrigation systems in efforts to restore the Lemhi River to its former status as prime salmon habitat. A wheel line sprinkler system like this one gives farmers be. Credit: Joel McNee. |
 | Sprinkler irrigation system in private agricultural land along the John Day River. Credit: John Craig. |  | Clarno BLM agriculture field with irrigation sprinkler along the John Day River. Credit: John Craig. |
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| "Sprinkler #2" by Annette Gulick Commentary: "Another angle on the sprinkler." | "Garden sprinkler" by Peter Hamza Commentary: "Just watering the plants :)." |
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Economic History | Syria | Utilizing more efficient irrigation systems such as sprinkler or drip irrigation will become mandatory over the coming four years. (references) |
Mauritius | The Irrigation Authority plans to double the area of agricultural land under irrigation to 33,000 hectares by 2015. About 3,500 hectares will be converted from sprinkler to drip in the next five years. (references) | |
Syria | Although the Ministry of Irrigation has implemented many key projects to improve irrigation acreage, the average farmer's limited income and access to credit is a major obstacle to introducing modern irrigation systems such as drip, sprinkler and subsurface irrigation. (references) | |
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| "Sprinkler" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sprinkler" is used about 85 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 85 | 35,870 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "sprinkler": automatic sprinkler ♦ lawn sprinkler ♦ sprinkler arm ♦ sprinkler irrigation ♦ sprinkler system ♦ water sprinkler. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "sprinkler": lawn-sprinkler, open-sprinkler, water-sprinkler. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "sprinkler"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | spërkatës (splasher, sprayer), impiant ujitës. (various references) | |
Arabic | مذرة (seeder, sowing machine), مرشة, ناشرة, طفاية الحرائق (extinguisher). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | поливачка (watering can, watering pot). (various references) | |
Chinese | 喷水隆头. (various references) | |
Czech | sprinkler, postřikovaè (sprayer). (various references) | |
Danish | sprinkler (irrigator, rainer, sprinkler head), spreder (diffuser, diffusing apparatus, diffusor, divergent, duct, irrigator, light diffuser, rainer, shroud, spreader), vandspreder (spray), vandingsvogn. (various references) | |
Dutch | sproeiwagen, sproeier (irrigator, jet, nozzle, rainer, rose, spray), sprinkler-wentelsproeier, sprinklerkop (sprinkler head), sprinkler (sprinkler head), sprenkelinstallatie, watersproeier (spray). (various references) | |
Farsi | گلاب پاش , اب پاش (Pot), بااب پاش پاشیدن . (various references) | |
Finnish | sadetus (overhead irrigation, overhead watering, spray irrigation, sprinkler irrigation, sprinkling, sprinkling irrigation, surface irrigation), pyörivä vedenjakelulaite (bacteria bed arm, distributor arm, filter arm, rotary distributor, sprinkler arm). (various references) | |
French | sprinkler, arroseuse (sprayer), arroseur. (various references) | |
German | Sprinkler (sprinkler head), Sprenger (blaster), Sprengapparat (blasting machine, exploder), Rasensprenger, Brause (douche, fizz, lemonade, pop, rose, sherbet, shower, shower attachment, spray), Berieselungsanlage (irrigating installation). (various references) | |
Greek | ραντιστήρι. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ממטרה, מזלף (dropper, pipette, sprayer, watering can). (various references) | |
Hungarian | locsolófej (jet), öntözőfej (spreader). (various references) | |
Italian | spruzzatore (spray). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | スプライン軸 (splasher, spline shaft, split, split fingered fast ball, split-run test). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | スプリンクラー . (various references) | |
Manx | spreihder (spray, sprayer). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inklerspray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | hissope, extintor de incêndios (sparger), chuveiro (shower, shower-bath, showerhead, spatter), carro de rega (sprayer), borrifadora, borrifador (sparger), automóvel de regar, aspersor (irrigator, rainer), aspersório (sparger), aparelho de jacto de água (spray). (various references) | |
Romanian | stropitoare (douche). (various references) | |
Russian | спринклер, разбрызгиватель (sparger, sprayer), опрыскиватель (sprayer). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sprinkler uređaj, rasprskivač (nozzle), prskalica (rose, sparger, sprayer), kanta za zalivanje (watering pot), automatski vodeni tuševi (sprinkler system), štrcaljka (applicator). (various references) | |
Spanish | rociador (sprayer), regadera (water can, watering can), aspersor (irrigator, rainer, sprinkler head). (various references) | |
Swedish | sprinkler. (various references) | |
Turkish | sulama sistemi (sprinkler system), yangın söndürücü (extinguisher, fire extinguisher, foam extinguisher), yağmurlama sistemi (sprinkler system), püskürtücü (atomizer, injector, repellent, repelling, spray, sprayer, spreader), kutsal su kabı (aspergill, aspergillum, stoup), fıskiye (fountain, girandole, squirt). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розбризкувач (atomizer, splasher), гасильник, пульверизатор (airbrush, atomizer, pulverizer, sprayer, vaporizer). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bình tưới nước xe ô tô tưới đường. (various references) | |
Welsh | taenellwr. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sprinkler": sprinklered, sprinklers. (additional references) | |
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"Sprinkler" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Prenzler, shrinker, Shrinkle, sprickle, sprinker. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sprinkler" (pronounced spri"ngkler or spri"ngkuler) |
| 3 | -k l er | chronicler, heckler, mickler, recycler. |
| 6 | -i" ng k u l er | Tinkler. |
| 4 | -k u l er | Buckler, hackler, stickler. |
| 3 | -u l er | embezzler, enabler, abler, alveolar, angular, annular, avuncular, bachelor, binocular, Candler, cardiovascular, cellular, chancellor, circular, consular, councilor, counsellor, counselor, curricular, dangler, dissimilar, equiangular, extracurricular, fiddler, gastrovascular, Girdler, glandular, globular, gobbler, granular, humbler, hurdler, hustler, Idler, insular, intercellular, intermolecular, irregular, jeweler, jocular, juggler, jugular, kindler, kittler, Littler, modular, molecular, muscular, needler, nestler, nodular, particular, peninsular, perpendicular, popular, rattler, rectangular, regular, reveler, saddler, secular, semicircular, settler, shuffler, Sidler, similar, simpler, singular, spectacular, Spindler, Stabler, stapler, subtler, swindler, testicular, tingler, titular, traveler, traveller, triangular, tubular, unicellular, unpopular, unspectacular, vascular, vehicular, vernacular, wrangler, wrestler. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-k-l-n-p-r-r-s" | |
-1 letter: plinkers, prinkers, sprinkle. | |
-2 letters: linkers, pilsner, pinkers, plinker, prinker, relinks. | |
-3 letters: inkers, inkles, likens, likers, liners, linker, lisper, pekins, pensil, perils, pikers, pinker, pliers, plinks, priers, prinks, reinks, relink, repins, rinser, ripens, risker, silken, sinker, sniper, spiker, spinel, spline, sprier. | |
-4 letters: inker, inkle, keirs, kelps, kepis, kerns, kiers, kilns, kines, kirns, lenis, liens, liers. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-k-l-n-p-r-r-s" | |
+1 letter: sprinklers. | |
+2 letters: sprinklered. | |
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