different between sprinkle vs designate

English

Etymology

From Middle English sprynklen, sprenkelen, equivalent to sprink +? -le (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Dutch sprenkelen (“to sprinkle”), German Low German sprenkeln (“to sprinkle; dapple”), German sprenkeln (“to sprinkle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sp???k?l/
• Rhymes: -??k?l

Verb

sprinkle (third-person singular simple present sprinkles, present participle sprinkling, simple past and past participle sprinkled)

1. (transitive) To cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance).

   • And the priest shall […] sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the Lord.

   • At twilight in the summer […] the mice come out. They […] eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly […] on the floor.

2. (transitive) To cover (an object) by sprinkling a substance on to it.
3. (intransitive) To drip in fine drops, sometimes sporadically.

4. (intransitive) To rain very lightly outside.

5. (transitive) To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify.

   • 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

• besprinkle
• sprinkler

Translations

Noun

sprinkle (plural sprinkles)

1. A light covering with a sprinkled substance.

2. A light rain shower.
3. An aspersorium or utensil for sprinkling.

Synonyms

• (light covering with a sprinkled substance): sprinkling

Derived terms

• sugar sprinkles

Translations

Anagrams

• plinkers, prinkles, splinker

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin designatus, past participle of designare. Doublet of design.

Pronunciation

• (adjective) (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?z??.n?t/, /?d?z??.ne?t/
• (verb) (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?z??.ne?t/

Adjective

designate (not comparable)

1. Designated; appointed; chosen.

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2. (Britain) Used after a role title to indicate that the person has been selected but has yet to take up the role.

Verb

designate (third-person singular simple present designates, present participle designating, simple past and past participle designated)

1. To mark out and make known; to point out; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description

2. To call by a distinctive title; to name.
3. To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty; — with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the command of a post or station.

Synonyms

• (mark out and make known): denote, describe, indicate, note
• (call by a distinctive title): denominate, entitle, name, style; see also Thesaurus:denominate
• (set apart for a purpose or duty): allocate, earmark; see also Thesaurus:set apart

Derived terms

• designated driver
• designated hitter

Related terms

• codesignative
• designation
• designative
• designatum

Translations

Further reading

• designate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• designate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Interlingua

Participle

designate

1. past participle of designar

Italian

Verb

designate

1. second-person plural present and imperative of designare
2. feminine plural of designato

Adjective

designate

1. feminine plural of designato

Anagrams

• disegnate
• sdegniate

Latin

Verb

d?sign?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of d?sign?

References

• designate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• designate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette