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Sprinkle vs Garnish - What's the difference?

sprinkle | garnish |

As verbs the difference between sprinkle and garnish

is that sprinkle is (lb) to cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance) while garnish is to decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.

As nouns the difference between sprinkle and garnish

is that sprinkle is a light covering with a sprinkled substance while garnish is a set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.

sprinkle

English

Verb

(sprinkl)
  • (lb) To cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance).
  • :
  • *(Bible), (w) xiv. 16
  • *:And the priest shallsprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the Lord.
  • *
  • *: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

    • 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

    * sprinkler

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A light covering with a sprinkled substance.
    • He decorated the Christmas card with a sprinkle of glitter.
  • A light rain shower.

    • Synonyms

    * (light covering with a sprinkled substance) sprinkling

    Derived terms

    * sugar sprinkles

    garnish

    English

    Verb

  • To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.
  • * Spenser
    • All within with flowers was garnished .
  • (cooking) To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.
  • To furnish; to supply.
    • By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. (Job 26:13, KJV)
  • (slang, archaic) To fit with fetters; to fetter
    • (Johnson)
  • (legal) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee.

    • Derived terms

    * garnishee * garnishment * garnishor

    Related terms

    * garrison * garment

    Noun

    (garnishes)
  • A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
  • Pewter vessels in general.
  • * 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 478:
    • The accounts of collegiate and monastic institutions give abundant entries of the price of pewter vessels, called also garnish .
  • Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially when showy or decorated.
  • * Shakespeare
    • So are you, sweet, / Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.
  • * Prior
    • Matter and figure they produce; / For garnish this, and that for use.
  • (cookery) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.
  • (slang, obsolete) Fetters.
  • (slang, historical) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.
    • (Fielding)

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