sprinkler

«sprinkler» in Mova's school dictionary: A device that sprays water over grass or plants — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a sprinkler, sprinklers)

meaning for a pupil

1) A device that sprays water over grass or plants. tree →

2) A device on a ceiling that sprays water automatically when there is a fire. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday summer life, children run through the garden sprinkler. In safety, fire sprinklers in schools and shops stop fires. In maths, a rotating sprinkler sprays a circle. Phrases: garden sprinkler, sprinkler system.

examples

• We ran through the sprinkler on a hot day. tree →
• The sprinkler watered the lawn. tree →
• The fire sprinklers turned on when there was smoke. tree →
• Don't hang anything on the sprinkler on the ceiling. tree →
• The sprinkler sprays water in a circle 6 m wide. tree →
• Water bans meant no sprinklers. tree →

note

Countable. Verb: sprinkle (to scatter small drops or bits). Maths: a sprinkler spraying 3 m in all directions waters a circle with radius 3 m.

In the corpora

• It doesn't run backwards, because wet grass can also come from a sprinkler, dew or a dog.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «sprinkler» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.