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verb
- spray or sprinkle with
- To spray with (a specified liquid) (followed by with).
- provide abundantly with
- take a shower; wash one's body in the shower
- expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns
- rain abundantly
- To bathe using a shower.
- (intransitive) To rain in a shower; to cascade down.
- To bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance.
noun
- washing yourself by standing upright under water sprayed from a nozzle
- a brief period of precipitation
- a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc.) likened to a rain shower
- a plumbing fixture that sprays water over you
- a party of friends assembled to present gifts (usually of a specified kind) to a person
- someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see
- (slang) A person whose penis is close to its erect size when flaccid; the penis itself.
- (chiefly Ireland, UK, Australia, derogatory) A shower of shit.
- A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.
- A baby shower.
- An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.
- A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.
- A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump.
- (British, informal, in the singular) A group of people perceived as incompetent or worthless.
- A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade); burst of hefty precipitation.
- One who shows.
- An object or activity that is shown in a contest.
- (juggling) A pattern where the juggler passes objects horizontally from one hand to the other around chest height, and upward over the juggler's head to return to the first hand.
- (chiefly Ireland, euphemistic, derogatory, with of and an invective) Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier
- A bridal shower.
verb
noun
- A sprinkling or spray of liquid; a small amount of liquid.
- Synonym of spritzer (“spray bottle”).
- Synonym of spritzer (“drink made with white wine and soda water”).
- A cocktail consisting of prosecco, soda water, and bitters.
- (by extension) A small amount of something; a dash or jot.
- a quick squirt of some liquid (usually carbonated water)
verb
- (transitive) To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
- spray finely or cover with mist
- (printing, of ink) To disperse into a mist, accompanying operation of equipment at high speeds.
- (transitive, of the eyes) To be covered by tears.
- (transitive) To cover with a mist.
- (intransitive) To form mist.
- (intransitive) To rain in very fine droplets.
- become covered with mist
- make less visible or unclear
noun
noun
verb
- cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force
- distribute loosely
- scatter with liquid; wet lightly
- rain gently
- (intransitive) To drip in fine drops, sometimes sporadically.
- (transitive) To cover (an object) by sprinkling a substance on to it.
- (transitive) To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify.
- (transitive) To cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance).
- (intransitive) To rain very lightly outside.
noun
- the act of sprinkling or splashing water
- The action of the verb to sprinkle.
- a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby
- a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly
- the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare)
- A scattering.
- A light shower of rain.
- A small thinly distributed amount, e.g. of some liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled on to something.
verb
verb
- (transitive) To spray or cover (something) with fine powder or liquid, to sprinkle.
- (transitive) To remove dust from.
- (transitive, chiefly US slang) To kill.
- (transitive, now colloquial or dialectal) To strike, beat, thrash.
- (transitive, chiefly US slang) To defeat badly, to thrash.
- (intransitive, chiefly US slang) To leave quickly; to rush off.
- (intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
- (transitive, baseball) To deliberately pitch a ball close to (a batter); to brush back.
- (intransitive or reflexive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
- (transitive) To sprinkle (a substance) in the form of dust.
- (cryptocurrencies) To attempt to identify the owner of (a cryptocurrency wallet) by sending tiny amounts of cryptocurrency.
- remove the dust from
- rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape
- distribute loosely
- cover with a light dusting of a substance
noun
- (cryptocurrencies) Tiny amounts of cryptocurrency left over after a transaction due to rounding error.
- (countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
- (figurative) Something worthless.
- (uncountable, astronomy) Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths.
- (countable, figurative) A tumult, disturbance, commotion, uproar.
- (countable, mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
- (British, colloquial) Rubbish, garbage, refuse.
- The earthly remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
- (figurative) A low or mean condition.
- (countable) A cloud of dust.
- (countable, colloquial) A fight or row.
- The earth as the resting place of the dead.
- (figurative) The substance of the human body or mortal frame.
- (uncountable) Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc.
- (uncountable) Any substance reduced to fine particles; powder.
- (poetic) Earth, ground, soil, sediment.
- (countable) The act of sprinkling dust, or a sprinkle of dust itself.
- (uncountable, occupational health) Disintegration of a solid, like silica.
- free microscopic particles of solid material
- fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air
- the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
noun
verb
verb
- make a puddle by splashing water
- To play or splash in a puddle.
- eliminate urine
- subject to puddling or form by puddling
- dip into mud before planting
- make into a puddle
- wade or dabble in a puddle
- mix up or confuse
- work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud
- mess around, as in a liquid or paste
- To line a canal with puddle (clay).
- To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research or conversation.
- To form a puddle.
- To process iron, gold, etc., by means of puddling.
- To make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
- (entomology) Of butterflies, to congregate on a puddle or moist substance to pick up nutrients.
- To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).
noun
- something resembling a pool of liquid
- a mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry
- a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid
- A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.
- (now dialectal) Stagnant or polluted water.
- (rowing) The ripple left by the withdrawal of an oar from the water.
- A small, often temporary, pool of water, usually on a path or road.
verb
- cover by spraying with a liquid
- scatter in a mass or jet of droplets
- be discharged in sprays of liquid
- (transitive, soccer) To pass (a ball), usually laterally across the field and often a long distance.
- (transitive, Australian rules football) To kick (a ball) poorly and in an unintended direction.
- (transitive, figurative) To project many small items dispersively.
- (ergative) To project in a dispersive manner.
- (transitive, computing, computer security) To allocate blocks of memory from (a heap, etc.), and fill them with the same byte sequence, hoping to establish that sequence in a certain predetermined location as part of an exploit.
- (transitive) To project a liquid in a dispersive manner toward something.
- (climbing, slang, derogatory) To give unwanted advice.
- (intransitive, zoology) To urinate in order to mark territory.
- (Nigeria) To shower guests dancing at a function with money.
noun
- a quantity of small objects flying through the air
- a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist
- water in small drops in the atmosphere; blown from waves or thrown up by a waterfall
- flower arrangement consisting of a single branch or shoot bearing flowers and foliage
- a pesticide in suspension or solution; intended for spraying
- a jet of vapor
- (metalworking, countable) A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal to all parts of the mold.
- (uncountable) Branches and twigs collectively; foliage.
- (Australia) A loud scolding or reprimand, usually delivered by a sports coach or similar figure.
- (countable) A collective body of small branches.
- (countable) A pressurized container; an atomizer.
- A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.
- (metalworking, countable) A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
- (computing, countable) The allocation and filling of blocks of memory with the same byte sequence, hoping to establish that sequence in a certain predetermined location as part of an exploit.
- (countable) A small branch of flowers or berries.
- (countable) An ornament or design that resembles a branch.
- (figuratively) Something resembling a spray of liquid.
- (medicine, countable) A jet of fine medicated vapour, used either as an application to a diseased part or to charge the air of a room with a disinfectant or a deodorizer.
- (countable) Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner.
verb
- (transitive) To sprinkle throughout.
- sprinkle as if with salt
- (wiki jargon) To lock a page title so it cannot be created.
- (archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archaeological site.
- (military, transitive) To sow with salt (of land), symbolizing a curse on its re-inhabitation.
- (intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution.
- (transitive) To add certain chemical elements to (a nuclear or conventional weapon) so that it generates more radiation.
- (cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
- (nautical, of a ship) To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.
- (mining) To blast metal into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
- (transitive) To add salt to.
- add zest or liveliness to
- add salt to
- preserve with salt
adj
noun
- (chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
- (Internet slang, uncountable) Tears; indignation; outrage; arguing.
- (cryptography) A sequence of random data added to plain text data (such as passwords or messages) prior to encryption or hashing, in order to make brute force decryption more difficult.
- (figurative, uncountable) Skepticism and common sense.
- (slang, countable) A sailor (also old salt).
- (UK, historical, uncountable) The money demanded by Eton schoolboys during the montem.
- (historical, in the plural) Epsom salts or other salt used as a medicine.
- A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a food ingredient, seasoning, condiment, and preservative.
- A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
- (uncommon, countable) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
- a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
- the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
- white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
verb
- To drench or fill with water.
- (figurative) To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
- (figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
- (Appalachia) To clear (a road or an area) of brush, particularly so as to create a path for loggers to be able to access trees.
- drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
noun
- An area of wet (water-saturated), spongy (soft) land, often with trees, generally a rich ecosystem for certain plants and animals but ill-suited for many agricultural purposes. (A type of wetland. Compare marsh, bog, fen.)
- (figurative) A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.
- (US, politics) The alleged corruption, cronyism, inefficiency, and entrenched interests in the federal government, especially in Washington, DC.
- a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables
- low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
verb
- (transitive) To water or spray with a hose.
- (transitive) To spray as if with a hose; to spray in great quantity.
- (transitive, computing, slang) To break or destroy (a system), especially by wiping files or other content.
- (transitive) To deliver using a hose.
- (transitive) To trick or deceive.
- (transitive) To provide with hose (garment)
- (transitive, sports) To cause an unfair disadvantage to a player or team through poor officiating; especially, to cause a player or team to lose the game with an incorrect call.
- water with a hose
noun
- (countable) A flexible tube conveying water or other fluid.
- (historical) Close-fitting trousers or breeches, reaching to the knee.
- (uncountable) A stocking-like garment worn on the legs; pantyhose, women's tights.
- socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear)
- a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas
- man's close-fitting garment of the 16th and 17th centuries covering the legs and reaching up to the waist; worn with a doublet
verb
- (transitive) To make into a fine spray.
- (transitive) To fragment; to break into small pieces or concepts.
- (chiefly politics, of people) To deprive of community and political capital.
- (transitive) To bomb with nuclear weapons.
- (transitive) To separate or reduce into atoms.
- spray very finely
- break up into small particles
- strike at with firepower or bombs
verb
noun
verb
noun
noun
- A spray or shower of droplets hitting a surface.
- (figuratively) A collection of objects scattered like droplets splashed onto a surface.
- (figuratively) A burst or series of sounds resembling the sound of droplets hitting a surface.
- The sound of droplets hitting a surface.
- A spot or spots of a substance spattered on a surface.
- the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively
- the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface
verb
- (transitive) To distribute (a liquid) by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.
- (transitive) To splash (someone or something) with small droplets.
- (transitive, figurative) To send out or disperse (something) as if in droplets.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cover, or lie upon (something) by having been scattered, as if by splashing.
- (intransitive) To send out small droplets; to splash in small droplets (on or against something).
- dash a liquid upon or against
- spot, splash, or soil
- rain gently
noun
verb
verb
- To splash or sprinkle (a surface, such as a wall) with a liquid colouring matter.
- (also figurative) Of water or some other liquid: to hit something, or to move about, with a splashing sound; to splash.
- (UK, dialectal) Synonym of pleach (“to make or repair (a hedge) by partly cutting plant stems, bending them down, and intertwining them with other stems”).
- (also figurative) To hit (someone or something) with water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; to splash.
- To hit the surface of water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; also, to move in water with a splashing sound; to splash.
- dash a liquid upon or against
- interlace the shoots of
noun
- (UK, dialectal) A heavy fall of rain; a downpour.
- A sound made by something hitting the surface of water or some other liquid, or by water or some other liquid hitting something; also, an act causing this sound; a splash.
- (chiefly Northern England, North Midlands, countable) A small pool of standing water; a marshy pond; also, a puddle; (uncountable) marshy land; mire.
- the sound like water splashing
verb
- To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
- (ambitransitive) To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, cast, let fall, be divested of.
- (transitive, UK, dialectal) To part, separate or divide.
- (transitive) To radiate, cast, give off (light).
- (weaving) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
- (transitive) To allow to flow or fall.
- (transitive) To place or allocate a vehicle, such as a locomotive, in or to a depot or shed.
- (transitive, music) To woodshed.
- pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities
- cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over
- cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers
- to remove
noun
- A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding, especially a smallish one; a hut.
- (obsolete outside of compounds) An area of land as distinguished from those around it.
- (music, slang) Alternative form of woodshed.
- (British, rail transport, informal) A British Rail Class 66 locomotive.
- (weaving) An area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.
- (British, derogatory, informal) An automobile which is old, worn-out, slow, or otherwise of poor quality.
- (nuclear physics) A unit of area equivalent to 10⁻⁵² square meters.
- A large temporary open structure for reception of goods.
- an outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage
adj
verb
noun
verb
- To pour (especially with rain)
- To be stocked to overflowing.
- (cooking, Scotland, Ireland) To drain the water from (boiled potatoes etc.).
- To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.
- To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal.
- (of rain, snow, etc) To fall prolifically.
- be teeming, be abuzz
- move in large numbers
noun
verb
- To soil or sprinkle (someone or something) with a substance, often a liquid; to bespatter, to spatter.
- To spray droplets of saliva from the mouth while eating or speaking.
- To direct angry words, criticism, insults, etc., at (someone or something).
- Followed by out: to go out (as a flame) or stop functioning (as an engine or machine) with a spluttering action or sound (senses 2.1 or 2.3).
- To forcefully emit (something), especially in small drops or particles; to sputter.
- Sometimes followed by out: to speak (words) hurriedly, and confusedly or unclearly.
- Of a substance: to be emitted forcefully in small drops or particles.
- Of a thing: to forcefully emit something, especially in small drops or particles.
- To perform in an inconsistent manner to a substandard level.
- To speak hurriedly, and confusedly or unclearly.
- To make a sound or sounds of something forcefully emitting a substance in small drops or particles.
- utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage
- spit up in an explosive manner
noun
- (uncountable) Chaotic and forceful speaking, verbal exchange, etc.; (countable) an instance of this.
- (countable) A noisy commotion.
- (countable) A disagreement or dispute.
- (countable) A forceful choking or spitting sound.
- (countable) A forceful emission of something, especially in small drops or particles; a spluttering or sputtering.
- the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively
- an utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage)
noun
- A round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose.
- (mathematics, graph theory) A graph with only one vertex.
- A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae)
- A flower of the rose plant.
- (heraldry) The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed.
- (countable, uncountable) A purplish-red or pink color, the color of some rose flowers.
- The usually circular base of a light socket in the ceiling, from which the fitting or chandelier is suspended.
- A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
- (mathematics) Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares.
- A type of sex toy shaped like a rose.
- Alternative spelling of rosé.
- Something resembling a rose flower, such as a compass rose.
- Any of various large, red-bodied, papilionid butterflies of the genus Pachliopta.
- (mathematics) A bouquet of circles.
- (chess) A fairy chess piece that can make knight moves in a circular path.
- any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses
- pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began
- a dusty pink color
adj
verb
verb
- (transitive) To spray with liquid from a container.
- (intransitive) To spray out of a container.
- To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
- To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
- (intransitive) To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around
- (intransitive) To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
- To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetor jet
- To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
- (slang, intransitive) To leave; depart.
- fly a jet plane
- issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth
adj
noun
- The colour of jet coal, deep grey.
- (mathematics) an operation that takes a differentiable function f and produces a polynomial, the Taylor polynomial (truncated Taylor series) of f, at each point of its domain.
- A turbine.
- (mineralogy) A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
- A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
- (physics) A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
- A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
- (aviation) A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.
- A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
- A rocket engine.
- a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewelry or ornamentation
- atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward
- the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)
- an airplane powered by one or more jet engines
- street names for ketamine
- an artificially produced flow of water
verb
noun
verb
- To drip or be wet with some liquid.
- (by extension, figuratively) To impart (information, etc.) in small quantities; to infuse.
- Followed by off or out: to expel (a volatile substance) from something by distillation.
- To extract the essence of (something) by, or as if by, distillation; to concentrate, to purify.
- To turn into a vapour and then condense back into a liquid; to undergo or be produced by distillation.
- (machine learning) To transform a complex large language model into a smaller one.
- To transform a thing (into something else) by distillation.
- To flow or pass gently or slowly; hence (figuratively) to be manifested gently or gradually.
- To exude (a liquid) in small drops; also, to give off (a vapour) which condenses in small drops.
- To heat (a substance, usually a liquid) so that a vapour is produced, and then to cool the vapour so that it condenses back into a liquid, either to purify the original substance or to obtain one of its components; to subject to distillation.
- To fall or trickle down in small drops; to exude, to ooze out; also, to come out as a vapour which condenses in small drops.
- (also figuratively) To make (something, especially spirits such as gin and whisky) by distillation.
- remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation
- undergo the process of distillation
- extract by the process of distillation
- give off (a liquid)
- undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops
verb
noun
verb
- (ambitransitive, sometimes figurative) To sprinkle; to splatter.
- (transitive) To draw or write quickly; jot.
- (intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.
- (transitive) To dishearten; to sadden.
- (intransitive, informal) To leave or depart.
- (transitive, of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.
- (transitive) To throw violently.
- (transitive) To destroy by striking (against).
- (transitive, usually with down or off) To complete hastily.
- hurl or thrust violently
- break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
- destroy or break
- add an enlivening or altering element to
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away
intj
noun
- A small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.
- Violent strike; a whack.
- (uncountable) Ostentatious vigor.
- (by extension) The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.
- A short run, flight.
- (figurative, by extension) A slight admixture.
- Ellipsis of dashboard.
- (typography) Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).
- (Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, countable, uncountable) A bribe or gratuity; a gift.
- (UK, India) A prime symbol.
- A rushing or violent onset.
- (computing) A hyphen or minus sign.
- (Internet, informal) The dashboard of a social media user.
- a quick run
- a punctuation mark (‘-’) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text
- the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
- distinctive and stylish elegance
- a footrace run at top speed
- the act of moving with great haste
noun
verb
noun
- One who sprays.
- A device, machine or vehicle used for large-area spraying, as for irrigation, weed killers, fertilizers, insecticides, or in manufacturing and production line processes.
- Synonym of spray bottle.
- a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist
- a worker who applies spray to a surface
verb
- (transitive) To make slightly wet or soiled by spattering or sprinkling a liquid (such as water, mud, or paint) on it; to bedabble.
- (intransitive, of waterfowl) To feed without diving, by submerging the head and neck underwater to seek food, often also tipping up the tail straight upwards above the water.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To participate or have an interest in an activity in a casual or superficial way.
- (transitive) To cause splashing by moving a body part like a bill or limb in soft mud, water, etc., often playfully; to play in shallow water; to paddle.
- dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid
- bob forward and under so as to feed off the bottom of a body of water
- play in or as if in water, as of small children
- work with in an amateurish manner
noun
noun
verb
- cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force
- distribute loosely
- scatter with liquid; wet lightly
- rain gently
- (intransitive) To drip in fine drops, sometimes sporadically.
- (transitive) To cover (an object) by sprinkling a substance on to it.
- (transitive) To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify.
- (transitive) To cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance).
- (intransitive) To rain very lightly outside.
noun
- the act of sprinkling or splashing water
- The action of the verb to sprinkle.
- a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby
- a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly
- the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare)
- A scattering.
- A light shower of rain.
- A small thinly distributed amount, e.g. of some liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled on to something.
verb
noun
verb
verb
noun
- A sprinkling or spray of liquid; a small amount of liquid.
- Synonym of spritzer (“spray bottle”).
- Synonym of spritzer (“drink made with white wine and soda water”).
- A cocktail consisting of prosecco, soda water, and bitters.
- (by extension) A small amount of something; a dash or jot.
- a quick squirt of some liquid (usually carbonated water)
noun
- A spray or shower of droplets hitting a surface.
- (figuratively) A collection of objects scattered like droplets splashed onto a surface.
- (figuratively) A burst or series of sounds resembling the sound of droplets hitting a surface.
- The sound of droplets hitting a surface.
- A spot or spots of a substance spattered on a surface.
- the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively
- the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface
verb
- (transitive) To distribute (a liquid) by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.
- (transitive) To splash (someone or something) with small droplets.
- (transitive, figurative) To send out or disperse (something) as if in droplets.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cover, or lie upon (something) by having been scattered, as if by splashing.
- (intransitive) To send out small droplets; to splash in small droplets (on or against something).
- dash a liquid upon or against
- spot, splash, or soil
- rain gently
noun
verb
noun
- A round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose.
- (mathematics, graph theory) A graph with only one vertex.
- A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae)
- A flower of the rose plant.
- (heraldry) The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed.
- (countable, uncountable) A purplish-red or pink color, the color of some rose flowers.
- The usually circular base of a light socket in the ceiling, from which the fitting or chandelier is suspended.
- A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
- (mathematics) Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares.
- A type of sex toy shaped like a rose.
- Alternative spelling of rosé.
- Something resembling a rose flower, such as a compass rose.
- Any of various large, red-bodied, papilionid butterflies of the genus Pachliopta.
- (mathematics) A bouquet of circles.
- (chess) A fairy chess piece that can make knight moves in a circular path.
- any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses
- pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began
- a dusty pink color
adj
verb
noun
verb
noun
- One who sprays.
- A device, machine or vehicle used for large-area spraying, as for irrigation, weed killers, fertilizers, insecticides, or in manufacturing and production line processes.
- Synonym of spray bottle.
- a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist
- a worker who applies spray to a surface
verb
- spray or sprinkle with
- To spray with (a specified liquid) (followed by with).
- provide abundantly with
- take a shower; wash one's body in the shower
- expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns
- rain abundantly
- To bathe using a shower.
- (intransitive) To rain in a shower; to cascade down.
- To bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance.
noun
- washing yourself by standing upright under water sprayed from a nozzle
- a brief period of precipitation
- a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc.) likened to a rain shower
- a plumbing fixture that sprays water over you
- a party of friends assembled to present gifts (usually of a specified kind) to a person
- someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see
- (slang) A person whose penis is close to its erect size when flaccid; the penis itself.
- (chiefly Ireland, UK, Australia, derogatory) A shower of shit.
- A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.
- A baby shower.
- An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.
- A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.
- A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump.
- (British, informal, in the singular) A group of people perceived as incompetent or worthless.
- A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade); burst of hefty precipitation.
- One who shows.
- An object or activity that is shown in a contest.
- (juggling) A pattern where the juggler passes objects horizontally from one hand to the other around chest height, and upward over the juggler's head to return to the first hand.
- (chiefly Ireland, euphemistic, derogatory, with of and an invective) Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier
- A bridal shower.
verb
noun
- A sprinkling or spray of liquid; a small amount of liquid.
- Synonym of spritzer (“spray bottle”).
- Synonym of spritzer (“drink made with white wine and soda water”).
- A cocktail consisting of prosecco, soda water, and bitters.
- (by extension) A small amount of something; a dash or jot.
- a quick squirt of some liquid (usually carbonated water)
verb
- (transitive) To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
- spray finely or cover with mist
- (printing, of ink) To disperse into a mist, accompanying operation of equipment at high speeds.
- (transitive, of the eyes) To be covered by tears.
- (transitive) To cover with a mist.
- (intransitive) To form mist.
- (intransitive) To rain in very fine droplets.
- become covered with mist
- make less visible or unclear
noun
verb
- (transitive) To spray or cover (something) with fine powder or liquid, to sprinkle.
- (transitive) To remove dust from.
- (transitive, chiefly US slang) To kill.
- (transitive, now colloquial or dialectal) To strike, beat, thrash.
- (transitive, chiefly US slang) To defeat badly, to thrash.
- (intransitive, chiefly US slang) To leave quickly; to rush off.
- (intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
- (transitive, baseball) To deliberately pitch a ball close to (a batter); to brush back.
- (intransitive or reflexive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
- (transitive) To sprinkle (a substance) in the form of dust.
- (cryptocurrencies) To attempt to identify the owner of (a cryptocurrency wallet) by sending tiny amounts of cryptocurrency.
- remove the dust from
- rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape
- distribute loosely
- cover with a light dusting of a substance
noun
- (cryptocurrencies) Tiny amounts of cryptocurrency left over after a transaction due to rounding error.
- (countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
- (figurative) Something worthless.
- (uncountable, astronomy) Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths.
- (countable, figurative) A tumult, disturbance, commotion, uproar.
- (countable, mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
- (British, colloquial) Rubbish, garbage, refuse.
- The earthly remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
- (figurative) A low or mean condition.
- (countable) A cloud of dust.
- (countable, colloquial) A fight or row.
- The earth as the resting place of the dead.
- (figurative) The substance of the human body or mortal frame.
- (uncountable) Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc.
- (uncountable) Any substance reduced to fine particles; powder.
- (poetic) Earth, ground, soil, sediment.
- (countable) The act of sprinkling dust, or a sprinkle of dust itself.
- (uncountable, occupational health) Disintegration of a solid, like silica.
- free microscopic particles of solid material
- fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air
- the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
verb
- make a puddle by splashing water
- To play or splash in a puddle.
- eliminate urine
- subject to puddling or form by puddling
- dip into mud before planting
- make into a puddle
- wade or dabble in a puddle
- mix up or confuse
- work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud
- mess around, as in a liquid or paste
- To line a canal with puddle (clay).
- To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research or conversation.
- To form a puddle.
- To process iron, gold, etc., by means of puddling.
- To make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
- (entomology) Of butterflies, to congregate on a puddle or moist substance to pick up nutrients.
- To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).
noun
- something resembling a pool of liquid
- a mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry
- a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid
- A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.
- (now dialectal) Stagnant or polluted water.
- (rowing) The ripple left by the withdrawal of an oar from the water.
- A small, often temporary, pool of water, usually on a path or road.
verb
- cover by spraying with a liquid
- scatter in a mass or jet of droplets
- be discharged in sprays of liquid
- (transitive, soccer) To pass (a ball), usually laterally across the field and often a long distance.
- (transitive, Australian rules football) To kick (a ball) poorly and in an unintended direction.
- (transitive, figurative) To project many small items dispersively.
- (ergative) To project in a dispersive manner.
- (transitive, computing, computer security) To allocate blocks of memory from (a heap, etc.), and fill them with the same byte sequence, hoping to establish that sequence in a certain predetermined location as part of an exploit.
- (transitive) To project a liquid in a dispersive manner toward something.
- (climbing, slang, derogatory) To give unwanted advice.
- (intransitive, zoology) To urinate in order to mark territory.
- (Nigeria) To shower guests dancing at a function with money.
noun
- a quantity of small objects flying through the air
- a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist
- water in small drops in the atmosphere; blown from waves or thrown up by a waterfall
- flower arrangement consisting of a single branch or shoot bearing flowers and foliage
- a pesticide in suspension or solution; intended for spraying
- a jet of vapor
- (metalworking, countable) A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal to all parts of the mold.
- (uncountable) Branches and twigs collectively; foliage.
- (Australia) A loud scolding or reprimand, usually delivered by a sports coach or similar figure.
- (countable) A collective body of small branches.
- (countable) A pressurized container; an atomizer.
- A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.
- (metalworking, countable) A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
- (computing, countable) The allocation and filling of blocks of memory with the same byte sequence, hoping to establish that sequence in a certain predetermined location as part of an exploit.
- (countable) A small branch of flowers or berries.
- (countable) An ornament or design that resembles a branch.
- (figuratively) Something resembling a spray of liquid.
- (medicine, countable) A jet of fine medicated vapour, used either as an application to a diseased part or to charge the air of a room with a disinfectant or a deodorizer.
- (countable) Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner.
verb
- (transitive) To sprinkle throughout.
- sprinkle as if with salt
- (wiki jargon) To lock a page title so it cannot be created.
- (archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archaeological site.
- (military, transitive) To sow with salt (of land), symbolizing a curse on its re-inhabitation.
- (intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution.
- (transitive) To add certain chemical elements to (a nuclear or conventional weapon) so that it generates more radiation.
- (cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
- (nautical, of a ship) To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.
- (mining) To blast metal into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
- (transitive) To add salt to.
- add zest or liveliness to
- add salt to
- preserve with salt
adj
noun
- (chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
- (Internet slang, uncountable) Tears; indignation; outrage; arguing.
- (cryptography) A sequence of random data added to plain text data (such as passwords or messages) prior to encryption or hashing, in order to make brute force decryption more difficult.
- (figurative, uncountable) Skepticism and common sense.
- (slang, countable) A sailor (also old salt).
- (UK, historical, uncountable) The money demanded by Eton schoolboys during the montem.
- (historical, in the plural) Epsom salts or other salt used as a medicine.
- A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a food ingredient, seasoning, condiment, and preservative.
- A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
- (uncommon, countable) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
- a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
- the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
- white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
verb
- To drench or fill with water.
- (figurative) To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
- (figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
- (Appalachia) To clear (a road or an area) of brush, particularly so as to create a path for loggers to be able to access trees.
- drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
noun
- An area of wet (water-saturated), spongy (soft) land, often with trees, generally a rich ecosystem for certain plants and animals but ill-suited for many agricultural purposes. (A type of wetland. Compare marsh, bog, fen.)
- (figurative) A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.
- (US, politics) The alleged corruption, cronyism, inefficiency, and entrenched interests in the federal government, especially in Washington, DC.
- a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables
- low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
verb
- (transitive) To water or spray with a hose.
- (transitive) To spray as if with a hose; to spray in great quantity.
- (transitive, computing, slang) To break or destroy (a system), especially by wiping files or other content.
- (transitive) To deliver using a hose.
- (transitive) To trick or deceive.
- (transitive) To provide with hose (garment)
- (transitive, sports) To cause an unfair disadvantage to a player or team through poor officiating; especially, to cause a player or team to lose the game with an incorrect call.
- water with a hose
noun
- (countable) A flexible tube conveying water or other fluid.
- (historical) Close-fitting trousers or breeches, reaching to the knee.
- (uncountable) A stocking-like garment worn on the legs; pantyhose, women's tights.
- socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear)
- a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas
- man's close-fitting garment of the 16th and 17th centuries covering the legs and reaching up to the waist; worn with a doublet
verb
- (transitive) To make into a fine spray.
- (transitive) To fragment; to break into small pieces or concepts.
- (chiefly politics, of people) To deprive of community and political capital.
- (transitive) To bomb with nuclear weapons.
- (transitive) To separate or reduce into atoms.
- spray very finely
- break up into small particles
- strike at with firepower or bombs
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- To splash or sprinkle (a surface, such as a wall) with a liquid colouring matter.
- (also figurative) Of water or some other liquid: to hit something, or to move about, with a splashing sound; to splash.
- (UK, dialectal) Synonym of pleach (“to make or repair (a hedge) by partly cutting plant stems, bending them down, and intertwining them with other stems”).
- (also figurative) To hit (someone or something) with water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; to splash.
- To hit the surface of water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; also, to move in water with a splashing sound; to splash.
- dash a liquid upon or against
- interlace the shoots of
noun
- (UK, dialectal) A heavy fall of rain; a downpour.
- A sound made by something hitting the surface of water or some other liquid, or by water or some other liquid hitting something; also, an act causing this sound; a splash.
- (chiefly Northern England, North Midlands, countable) A small pool of standing water; a marshy pond; also, a puddle; (uncountable) marshy land; mire.
- the sound like water splashing
verb
- To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
- (ambitransitive) To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, cast, let fall, be divested of.
- (transitive, UK, dialectal) To part, separate or divide.
- (transitive) To radiate, cast, give off (light).
- (weaving) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
- (transitive) To allow to flow or fall.
- (transitive) To place or allocate a vehicle, such as a locomotive, in or to a depot or shed.
- (transitive, music) To woodshed.
- pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities
- cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over
- cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers
- to remove
noun
- A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding, especially a smallish one; a hut.
- (obsolete outside of compounds) An area of land as distinguished from those around it.
- (music, slang) Alternative form of woodshed.
- (British, rail transport, informal) A British Rail Class 66 locomotive.
- (weaving) An area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.
- (British, derogatory, informal) An automobile which is old, worn-out, slow, or otherwise of poor quality.
- (nuclear physics) A unit of area equivalent to 10⁻⁵² square meters.
- A large temporary open structure for reception of goods.
- an outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage
adj
noun
- A spray or shower of droplets hitting a surface.
- (figuratively) A collection of objects scattered like droplets splashed onto a surface.
- (figuratively) A burst or series of sounds resembling the sound of droplets hitting a surface.
- The sound of droplets hitting a surface.
- A spot or spots of a substance spattered on a surface.
- the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively
- the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface
verb
- (transitive) To distribute (a liquid) by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.
- (transitive) To splash (someone or something) with small droplets.
- (transitive, figurative) To send out or disperse (something) as if in droplets.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cover, or lie upon (something) by having been scattered, as if by splashing.
- (intransitive) To send out small droplets; to splash in small droplets (on or against something).
- dash a liquid upon or against
- spot, splash, or soil
- rain gently
verb
noun
verb
- To pour (especially with rain)
- To be stocked to overflowing.
- (cooking, Scotland, Ireland) To drain the water from (boiled potatoes etc.).
- To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.
- To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal.
- (of rain, snow, etc) To fall prolifically.
- be teeming, be abuzz
- move in large numbers
noun
verb
- To soil or sprinkle (someone or something) with a substance, often a liquid; to bespatter, to spatter.
- To spray droplets of saliva from the mouth while eating or speaking.
- To direct angry words, criticism, insults, etc., at (someone or something).
- Followed by out: to go out (as a flame) or stop functioning (as an engine or machine) with a spluttering action or sound (senses 2.1 or 2.3).
- To forcefully emit (something), especially in small drops or particles; to sputter.
- Sometimes followed by out: to speak (words) hurriedly, and confusedly or unclearly.
- Of a substance: to be emitted forcefully in small drops or particles.
- Of a thing: to forcefully emit something, especially in small drops or particles.
- To perform in an inconsistent manner to a substandard level.
- To speak hurriedly, and confusedly or unclearly.
- To make a sound or sounds of something forcefully emitting a substance in small drops or particles.
- utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage
- spit up in an explosive manner
noun
- (uncountable) Chaotic and forceful speaking, verbal exchange, etc.; (countable) an instance of this.
- (countable) A noisy commotion.
- (countable) A disagreement or dispute.
- (countable) A forceful choking or spitting sound.
- (countable) A forceful emission of something, especially in small drops or particles; a spluttering or sputtering.
- the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively
- an utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage)
verb
- (transitive) To spray with liquid from a container.
- (intransitive) To spray out of a container.
- To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
- To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
- (intransitive) To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around
- (intransitive) To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
- To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetor jet
- To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
- (slang, intransitive) To leave; depart.
- fly a jet plane
- issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth
adj
noun
- The colour of jet coal, deep grey.
- (mathematics) an operation that takes a differentiable function f and produces a polynomial, the Taylor polynomial (truncated Taylor series) of f, at each point of its domain.
- A turbine.
- (mineralogy) A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
- A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
- (physics) A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
- A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
- (aviation) A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.
- A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
- A rocket engine.
- a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewelry or ornamentation
- atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward
- the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)
- an airplane powered by one or more jet engines
- street names for ketamine
- an artificially produced flow of water
verb
noun
verb
- To drip or be wet with some liquid.
- (by extension, figuratively) To impart (information, etc.) in small quantities; to infuse.
- Followed by off or out: to expel (a volatile substance) from something by distillation.
- To extract the essence of (something) by, or as if by, distillation; to concentrate, to purify.
- To turn into a vapour and then condense back into a liquid; to undergo or be produced by distillation.
- (machine learning) To transform a complex large language model into a smaller one.
- To transform a thing (into something else) by distillation.
- To flow or pass gently or slowly; hence (figuratively) to be manifested gently or gradually.
- To exude (a liquid) in small drops; also, to give off (a vapour) which condenses in small drops.
- To heat (a substance, usually a liquid) so that a vapour is produced, and then to cool the vapour so that it condenses back into a liquid, either to purify the original substance or to obtain one of its components; to subject to distillation.
- To fall or trickle down in small drops; to exude, to ooze out; also, to come out as a vapour which condenses in small drops.
- (also figuratively) To make (something, especially spirits such as gin and whisky) by distillation.
- remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation
- undergo the process of distillation
- extract by the process of distillation
- give off (a liquid)
- undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops
verb
noun
verb
- (ambitransitive, sometimes figurative) To sprinkle; to splatter.
- (transitive) To draw or write quickly; jot.
- (intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.
- (transitive) To dishearten; to sadden.
- (intransitive, informal) To leave or depart.
- (transitive, of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.
- (transitive) To throw violently.
- (transitive) To destroy by striking (against).
- (transitive, usually with down or off) To complete hastily.
- hurl or thrust violently
- break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
- destroy or break
- add an enlivening or altering element to
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away
intj
noun
- A small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.
- Violent strike; a whack.
- (uncountable) Ostentatious vigor.
- (by extension) The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.
- A short run, flight.
- (figurative, by extension) A slight admixture.
- Ellipsis of dashboard.
- (typography) Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).
- (Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, countable, uncountable) A bribe or gratuity; a gift.
- (UK, India) A prime symbol.
- A rushing or violent onset.
- (computing) A hyphen or minus sign.
- (Internet, informal) The dashboard of a social media user.
- a quick run
- a punctuation mark (‘-’) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text
- the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
- distinctive and stylish elegance
- a footrace run at top speed
- the act of moving with great haste
verb
- (transitive) To make slightly wet or soiled by spattering or sprinkling a liquid (such as water, mud, or paint) on it; to bedabble.
- (intransitive, of waterfowl) To feed without diving, by submerging the head and neck underwater to seek food, often also tipping up the tail straight upwards above the water.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To participate or have an interest in an activity in a casual or superficial way.
- (transitive) To cause splashing by moving a body part like a bill or limb in soft mud, water, etc., often playfully; to play in shallow water; to paddle.
- dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid
- bob forward and under so as to feed off the bottom of a body of water
- play in or as if in water, as of small children
- work with in an amateurish manner