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sprinkler

/spring-kler/US // ˈsprɪŋ klər //UK // (ˈsprɪŋklə) //

洒水车,洒水器,洒水装置,洒水

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of various devices for sprinkling, as a watering pot, a container of water with a perforated top used to sprinkle clothes before ironing, or especially a perforated ring or small stand with a revolving nozzle to which a hose is attached for watering a lawn with a fine, even spray.
    • : a person who sprinkles.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to provide with a sprinkler system.

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Examples

  • Wealthy tourists, retirees and vacation-home owners will bring in jobs and tax revenue, and, like the sprinklers at resorts, green the whole place up.

  • What’s more, the best part is the fact that you can quickly and easily attach your garden hose to power up the giant sprinkler.

  • The sprinkler O’Keefe and her partner attached to their metal roof helps cool the inside of the house to a manageable 80 degrees, with an assist from fans and the frozen two-liter bottles she places in front of them.

  • Water splashes down from mushroom-shaped sprinklers, and tentative toddlers can get their feet wet in the shore-like entry to the pool.

  • On Tuesday, the county’s board of supervisors declared a drought emergency and further tightened mandatory water restrictions, such as limiting outdoor sprinkler use, to preserve reservoir storage through the long dry season ahead.

  • He cites stricter compliance for things such as sprinkler systems.

  • The author of the new novel Traveling Sprinkler talks about Fifty Shades of Grey, Wikipedia, and writing in the car.

  • The sprinklers are set off, so, naturally, Ghost Shark arrives through the sprinkler water and eats the museum keeper.

  • My dad was a sprinkler fitter and he was in the union, so we moved around every three years for his job.

  • Once four of us were told we had an hour to nap, but we had to do it under a sprinkler.

  • Sawdust-packed thermite grenades were stacked right up to the perforated pipes of the sprinkler system.

  • With a short length of old hose, a serviceable lawn sprinkler can be quickly and easily made.

  • And he flung holy water upon the corpse and the coffin, over which he traced the sign of the cross with his sprinkler.

  • Father Mancia smiled, dipped the sprinkler over and over in the holy water, gave us all a generous shower, and took his leave.

  • The grassy terraces before the house smelt deliciously, for a water-sprinkler in the grass sent out fine spray like a fountain.