Lace vs Sprinkle - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread.(w)
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
* , title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 *
(countable) A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly.(w)
A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.
* (Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)
(slang, obsolete) Spirits added to coffee or another beverage.
(label) To fasten (something) with laces.
* (Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)
(label) To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
(label) To interweave items. (lacing one's fingers together)
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.}}
(label) To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
* (w, Roger L'Estrange) (1616-1704)
To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material.
(lb) To cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance).
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*(Bible), (w) xiv. 16
*:And the priest shallsprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the Lord.
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*:At twilight in the summeron the floor.
(lb) To cover (an object) by sprinkling a substance on to it.
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*2005 , Justus Roux, Who's Your Daddy? , page 66:
*:Most of the passengers watched from the enclosed promenade deck, but Sandra found her way to the higher, open promenade where she shivered and watched the city lights fade and the stars sprinkle themselves across a dark blue velvet sky.
(lb) To drip in fine drops, sometimes sporadically.
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(lb) To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify.
*(Bible), (w) x. 22
*:having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience
A light covering with a sprinkled substance.
A light rain shower.
Lace is a related term of sprinkle.
As nouns the difference between lace and sprinkle
is that lace is cheapness while sprinkle is a light covering with a sprinkled substance.As a verb sprinkle is
(lb) to cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance).lace
English
Noun
- Our English dames are much given to the wearing of costly laces .
citation, passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace , […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}
- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace , complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
- Vulcanus had caught thee [Venus] in his lace .
- (Fairfax)
- (Addison)
Synonyms
* (cord) ** (for a shoe) shoelace ** (for a garment) tieVerb
(lac)- When Jenny's stays are newly laced .
- I'll lace your coat for ye.
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* enlace * lace into * lace-up shoes / lace-ups * lacyAnagrams
* ----sprinkle
English
Verb
(sprinkl)Quotations
* 1893 , Edward F. Bigelow (editor and publisher), The Observer: a Medium of Interchange of Observations for all Students and Lovers of Nature , volume IV, number 4, page 114: *: There is no more beautiful object in the still and shady aisles of the wood than a great patch of the deep green hairy cap moss studded and starred by these little roses that are often scattered over it as thickly as the stars sprinkle the sky. * April 26th, 1899', ''Memorial Day Oration'' of General P. McGlashan, printed in '''1902 in ''Addresses delivered before the Confederate Veterans Association of Savannah by that association: *: As I laid him back on the litter he threw out his arms and clasped me around my neck, drew me towards him and kissed me, saying: "Colonel, I love you." [...] Unnumbered instances like this might be recounted did the time permit it. They sprinkle the whole four years as the stars sprinkle the sky. * 2010 , Donald E. MacKay, Love Is Stronger Than Death , page 91: *: [...] she will remember his words and gaze at the stars. One dark night when the stars sprinkle the heavens, she would call out to the stars and ask the same questions her benefactor had asked; perhaps she will be favored with answers.Derived terms
* sprinklerNoun
(en noun)- He decorated the Christmas card with a sprinkle of glitter.
