sprinkler
IPA: sprˈɪŋkɫɝ
noun
- Anything that sprinkles.
- An irrigation device that sprays water into the air whilst moving back and forth.
- A heat-activated device that sprays water in the event of a fire, usually mounted on a ceiling.
- (preceded by definite article) A dance move in which the dancer places one hand on the head behind the ear, with elbow bent, stretches the other arm forwards and mimics the motions of an irrigation sprinkler with a rotary head.
verb
- (transitive) To fit with automatic sprinklers for fire prevention.
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Examples of "sprinkler" in Sentences
- I left the sprinkler on in the backyard.
- Heat from the steam set off the sprinkler system.
- The beginning of a sprinkler system is the water source.
- Otherwise I'll move up from the sprinkler to the gardenhose.
- The sprinkler is now owned by the mayor's office in Liskeard.
- It is an easy matter if you have all appliances, – a "sprinkler," or
- Motor in the top of the riser carries and rotates a sprinkler nozzle.
- The flow of water through the sprinkler is axial from inlet to nozzle.
- The broken sprinkler flooded the room, destroying much of the equipment.
- The ships' sprinkler system was turned off for the duration of the docking.
- The production team constructed a trench to stop the water from the sprinkler.
- Hockey is requesting money for a sprinkler and zamboni storage, and the board agreed that the sprinkler is a priority.
- Moose in a Sprinkler - Running through a sprinkler is a fun way to cool off on a hot summer day, for young humans as well as young moose!
- One company that benefited: Wheatland Tube Co., which employs 1,600 people, most of them in factories near this small city, making steel pipes for uses such as sprinkler systems and plumbing.
- I've found that one of these tubs (we just "upgraded" from a 30 gallon to a 45 gallon model this summer - $25 at the hardware store) and a good sprinkler is all the water fun my small children need.
- From Jake, Newquay, TMS inbox: "I'd like to add my voice to the no doubt cacophonous chorus of people demanding that Aggers repeat his 'sprinkler' in front of the video cameras at the earliest opportunity..."
- The sprinkler is a light brass rose, about 1½ inches diameter and less than two inches high entire, the distributer being a revolving head fitted loosely to the body of the fixed portion, which is made to screw into a half inch tube connection.
- A telephone prankster posing as a sprinkler company employee caused havoc Saturday morning at an Arkansas Holiday Inn when he convinced an employee to set off the hotel's fire alarm, smash windows, shut down electricity, and break a sprinkler head that flooded the building lobby.
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