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inkling
(encz) | inkling,náznak n: PetrV |
inkling
(encz) | inkling,tušení n: Zdeněk Brož |
inkling
(encz) | inkling,zdání n: PetrV |
Inkling
(gcide) | Inkling \In"kling\, n.
A hint; an intimation.
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The least inkling or glimpse of this island. --Bacon.
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They had some inkling of secret messages. --Clarendon.
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inkling
(wn) | inkling
n 1: a slight suggestion or vague understanding; "he had no
inkling what was about to happen" [syn: inkling,
intimation, glimmering, glimmer] |
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tinkling
(mass) | tinkling
- zvonenie |
admissible sprinkling intensity
(encz) | admissible sprinkling intensity,přípustná intenzita
postřiku [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
crinkling
(encz) | crinkling, |
have an inkling
(encz) | have an inkling, |
inkling
(encz) | inkling,náznak n: PetrVinkling,tušení n: Zdeněk Brožinkling,zdání n: PetrV |
sprinkling
(encz) | sprinkling,postřik [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskačsprinkling,špetka Pavel Machek |
sprinkling irrigation machine
(encz) | sprinkling irrigation machine,postřikovací stroj [eko.] RNDr. Pavel
Piskač |
tinkling
(encz) | tinkling,cinkání n: Zdeněk Brožtinkling,zvonění n: Zdeněk Brož |
twinkling
(encz) | twinkling,mihotavý adj: Zdeněk Brožtwinkling,mžik n: Zdeněk Brožtwinkling,okamžik n: Zdeněk Brož |
wrinkling
(encz) | wrinkling, |
Besprinkling
(gcide) | Besprinkle \Be*sprin"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Besprinkled; p.
pr. & vb. n. Besprinkling.]
To sprinkle over; to scatter over.
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The bed besprinkles, and bedews the ground. --Dryden.
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The act of sprinkling anything; a sprinkling over.
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Crinkling
(gcide) | Crinkle \Crin"kle\ (kr[i^][ng]"k'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Crinkled (-k'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crinkling (-kl[i^]ng).]
[A dim., fr. the root of cringe; akin to D. krinkelen to wind
or twist. Cf. Cringle, Cringe.]
To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into
inequalities or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl.
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The house?s crinkled to and fro. --Chaucer.
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Her face all bowsy,
Comely crinkled,
Wondrously wrinkled. --Skelton.
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The flames through all the casements pushing forth,
Like red-not devils crinkled into snakes. --Mrs.
Browning.
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Sprinkling
(gcide) | Sprinkle \Sprin"kle\ (spr[i^][ng]"k'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Sprinkled (-k'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Sprinkling
(-kl[i^]ng).] [OE. sprenkelen, freq. of sprengen to sprinkle,
to scatter, AS. sprengan, properly, to make to spring,
causative of springan to spring; akin to D. sprenkelen to
sprinkle, G. sprengen. See Spring, v. i., and cf.
Sprent.]
1. To scatter in small drops or particles, as water, seed,
etc.
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2. To scatter on; to disperse something over in small drops
or particles; to besprinkle; as, to sprinkle the earth
with water; to sprinkle a floor with sand.
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3. To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small
quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify.
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Having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.
--Heb. x. 22.
[1913 Webster]Sprinkling \Sprin"kling\ (-kl[i^]ng), n.
1. The act of one who, or that which, sprinkles.
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Baptism may well enough be performed by sprinkling
or effusion of water. --Ayliffe.
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2. A small quantity falling in distinct drops or particles;
as, a sprinkling of rain or snow.
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3. Hence, a moderate number or quantity distributed like
separate drops, or as if scattered like drops. --Craik.
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Tinkling
(gcide) | Tinkle \Tin"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tinkled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tinkling.]
To cause to clonk, or make small, sharp, quick sounds.
[1913 Webster]Tinkling \Tin"kling\, n.
1. A tinkle, or succession of tinkles.
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Drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. --Gray.
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2. (Zool.) A grackle (Quiscalus crassirostris) native of
Jamaica. It often associates with domestic cattle, and
rids them of insects.
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Twinkling
(gcide) | Twinkling \Twin"kling\, n.
1. The act of one who, or of that which, twinkles; a quick
movement of the eye; a wink; a twinkle. --Holland.
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2. A shining with intermitted light; a scintillation; a
sparkling; as, the twinkling of the stars.
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3. The time of a wink; a moment; an instant.
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In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last
trump, . . . the dead shall be raised incorruptible.
--1 Cor. xv.
52.
[1913 Webster]Twinkle \Twin"kle\ (tw[i^][ng]"k'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Twinkled (tw[i^][ng]"k'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Twinkling
(tw[i^][ng]"kl[i^]ng).] [OE. twinklen, AS. twinclian; akin to
OE. twinken to blink, wink, G. zwinken, zwinkern, and perhaps
to E. twitch.]
1. To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink.
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The owl fell a moping and twinkling. --L' Estrange.
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2. To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light;
to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate.
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These stars do not twinkle when viewed through
telescopes that have large apertures. --Sir I.
Newton.
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The western sky twinkled with stars. --Sir W.
Scott.
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Wrinkling
(gcide) | Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wrinkled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Wrinkling.]
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1. To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a
wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin
or the brow. "Sport that wrinkled Care derides." --Milton.
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Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed.
--Pope.
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2. Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.
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A keen north wind that, blowing dry,
Wrinkled the face of deluge, as decayed. --Milton.
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Then danced we on the wrinkled sand. --Bryant.
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To wrinkle at, to sneer at. [Obs.] --Marston.
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inkling
(wn) | inkling
n 1: a slight suggestion or vague understanding; "he had no
inkling what was about to happen" [syn: inkling,
intimation, glimmering, glimmer] |
sprinkling
(wn) | sprinkling
n 1: a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly; "the
first scatterings of green"; "a sprinkling of grey at his
temples" [syn: scattering, sprinkling]
2: a light shower that falls in some locations and not others
nearby [syn: scattering, sprinkle, sprinkling]
3: the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare) [syn:
aspersion, sprinkling]
4: the act of sprinkling or splashing water; "baptized with a
sprinkling of holy water"; "a sparge of warm water over the
malt" [syn: sprinkle, sprinkling, sparge] |
tinkling
(wn) | tinkling
adj 1: like the short high ringing sound of a small bell;
"sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal" [syn: tinkling,
tinkly] |
twinkling
(wn) | twinkling
adj 1: shining intermittently with a sparkling light; "twinkling
stars"
n 1: a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or
the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a
flash" [syn: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat,
instant, jiffy, split second, trice, twinkling,
wink, New York minute] |
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