Sprinkle vs Season - What's the difference?
sprinkle | season |
(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.
Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn and winter; yeartide.
* Addison
A part of a year when something particular happens: mating season'', ''rainy season'', ''football season .
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, title= (obsolete) That which gives relish; seasoning.
* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) ,
* 1605 , (Shakespeare), The Tragedy of Macbeth, III, 4
(cricket) The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
(North America, broadcasting) A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long break between each group, usually with one year between the beginning of each.
(obsolete) An extended, undefined period of time.
* 1656 , , The Mortification of Sin
To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.
To make fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure; to ripen; to mature; as, to season one to a climate.
Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices; as, to season timber.
To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance; as, timber seasons in the sun.
(obsolete) To copulate with; to impregnate.
As verbs the difference between sprinkle and season
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 season is to flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.As nouns the difference between sprinkle and season
is that sprinkle is a light covering with a sprinkled substance while season is each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn and winter; yeartide.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.
Synonyms
* (light covering with a sprinkled substance) sprinklingDerived terms
* sugar sprinklesseason
English
(wikipedia season)Noun
(en noun)- the several seasons of the year in their beauty
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season .}}
- O! she is fallen
- Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea
- Hath drops too few to wash her clean again,
- And salt too little which may season give
- To her foul-tainted flesh.
- You lack the season of all natures, sleep.
- The third season of ''Friends'' aired from 1996 to 1997.
- So it is in a person when a breach hath been made upon his conscience, quiet, perhaps credit, by his lust, in some eruption of actual sin; — carefulness, indignation, desire, fear, revenge are all set on work about it and against it, and lust is quiet for a season , being run down before them; but when the hurry is over and the inquest is past, the thief appears again alive, and is as busy as ever at his work.
Usage notes
In British English, a year-long group of episodes is called a series, whereas in North American English the word "series" is a synonym of "program" or "show".Synonyms
* (l) * (l)Derived terms
* end-of-season * high season * in season * low season * mating season * midseason * mid-season form * open season * out of season * rutting season * seasonable * seasonal * seasonally * silly season * unseasonally * unseasonable * unseasonablyVerb
- (Holland)