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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sprinkler/#m1)

2) A device on a ceiling that sprays water automatically when there is a fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sprinkler/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sprinkler/#x1)
- The sprinkler watered the lawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sprinkler/#x2)
- The fire sprinklers turned on when there was smoke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sprinkler/#x3)
- Don't hang anything on the sprinkler on the ceiling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sprinkler/#x4)
- The sprinkler sprays water in a circle 6 m wide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sprinkler/#x5)
- Water bans meant no sprinklers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sprinkler/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/184-if-then-and-its-traps/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sprinkler» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sprinkler/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.