What's the difference between drizzle and splash?

Drizzle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drops or rain.
  • (v. t.) To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.
  • (n.) Fine rain or mist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Place on a tray lined with parchment and bake for 10–12 minutes, then drizzle with syrup.
  • (2) "A syrupy drizzle of prettiness covers this cloying movie," wrote the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw .
  • (3) A gentle drizzle beats an insistent rhythm on the rusty, corrugated iron classroom roof at Katwe primary school in a suburb of Kampala, Uganda’s capital.
  • (4) Grilled cuttlefish on a bed of chestnut purée comes dramatically drizzled with black squid ink and shredded fried leek, while the innocuous-sounding champi con foie conceals mushroom, foie gras, creamy alioli (garlic mayonnaise) and a slick of salsa verde.
  • (5) Today, a fully restored, boldly extended and slightly reworked St Pancras proves that we can have our boiled beef and our oil-drizzled fettuccine and eat it.
  • (6) Add spices, stud the dough with candied peel, chocolate chips, nuts or dried fruit, layer or plait it, roll it up or just drizzle it with water icing.
  • (7) 5 Season to taste again and drizzle the top with olive oil to serve.
  • (8) 400g black-eyed beans soaked overnight in cold water 30g unsalted butter 75ml olive oil, plus extra to drizzle 2 small pittas, torn into 4cm pieces 80g almonds, skin on, roughly chopped 1 tbsp za’atar, plus 1 tsp extra to serve ¼ tsp chilli flakes Salt and black pepper 50ml lemon juice ¾ tsp ground cumin 400g Greek yoghurt 3 tbsp tahini paste 1 small garlic clove, peeled and crushed 10g parsley, roughly chopped 1 lemon, cut into 6 wedges, to serve Drain the beans and put them in a medium saucepan filled with plenty of cold water.
  • (9) The evening sunshine is giving way to drizzle and a chilly wind.
  • (10) 7 Serve the leeks on top of a scoop of beans, sprinkled with hazelnuts and drizzled with olive oil, with crusty bread.
  • (11) Instead, for now, he is sitting in a farmhouse in the village of Brodersby in Schleswig-Holstein, looking out through a drizzle over the flat plains of northern Germany , his adopted home.
  • (12) Drizzle the tomatoes with two teaspoons of oil, a pinch of salt and some pepper, then griddle for two to three minutes, turning them every minute, until they have black char marks all over and the skin is splitting.
  • (13) And yet, as was clear talking to the ministers, current and former, seeking shelter from the Westminster drizzle in the media encampment of satellite trucks and makeshift tents on College Green, those who want Brown gone look weak too.
  • (14) The event starts at 5pm and my cab had me and my companion – LA actor and comic Sarah Coomes – there at about 3.15pm, in broad daylight and thin drizzle.
  • (15) It was forecast to dump icy drizzle and eventually freezing rain through the New York City area and into Boston, National Weather Service meteorologist Greg Heavener said.
  • (16) Instead of inching my way along a busy B-road in the drizzle, wearing a hard hat and a hi-vis jacket, I was on a black-and-white pony in the wild west, riding alongside men with names like Cody who talked kinda slow and carried lariats on their saddles.
  • (17) That's the end of the good news: cloud, light rain and patchy drizzle could affect most areas by evening.
  • (18) If I succeed in my attempt at a lemon drizzle cake this weekend, I’ll have Nancy to thank.
  • (19) Welcome to sunny England!” he said in the drizzle.
  • (20) The Malibu theme is at odds with the drizzle outside, but it at least makes sense for the station's listeners, thousands of whom are US Air Force personnel at nearby RAF Mildenhall.

Splash


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.
  • (v. t.) To spatter water, mud, etc., upon; to wet.
  • (v. i.) To strike and dash about water, mud, etc.; to dash in such a way as to spatter.
  • (n.) Water, or water and dirt, thrown upon anything, or thrown from a puddle or the like; also, a spot or daub, as of matter which wets or disfigures.
  • (n.) A noise made by striking upon or in a liquid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Financial Services Authority today shut the door on so-called liar loans and warned that the days of homeowners remortgaging to splash out on holidays and pay off credit card debts may soon be over.
  • (2) KSmythe Make a splash in the cold: Bergen, Norway Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Getty Images Bergen, even when the fjords are too wet and dreary to visit, is still a relaxing destination for a winter break in Norway.
  • (3) Families picnic between games of crazy golf or volleyball, bathers brave the shallows, children splash in the saltwater lido.
  • (4) His story - which he was led through on Monday by his lawyer - is that he was outside his house cleaning Sadie, his dog, when the girls came down the road; that he took Holly and Jessica into his house because Holly had a nosebleed; took them upstairs into the bathroom where Holly sat on the edge of the full bath and he gave her tissues to staunch it; took Holly into his bedroom, to sit on the bed while Jessica used the toilet, took Holly back into the bathroom where she could finish cleaning up her nosebleed; accidentally slipped beside Holly and the full bath, and heard a splash; froze in panic; placed his hand over Jessica's mouth because she was screaming, 'You pushed her'.
  • (5) With the other half, they want the front page and, while they may dream of a splash on the lines of "Minister makes inspiring call to revive Labour", they know their article will be buried on page 94 and swiftly forgotten if it contains nothing more dramatic than that.
  • (6) Scores of sopping-wet pedestrians have complained to police after being splashed when motorists drove through puddles, figures show.
  • (7) Additionally, the Schmidt-Furlow investigators looked at instances where female interrogators had fondled prisoners, or pretended to splash menstrual blood upon them.
  • (8) The implication was that splashing out on a decent birthday present for your partner or having the family over for Christmas lunch could affect your chances of getting a mortgage.
  • (9) The rioting in Lashio started on Tuesday after reports that a Muslim man had splashed petrol on a Buddhist woman and set her on fire.
  • (10) But if Johnson's monuments suffer from the columnist's love of making a splash, his mayoralty has been more impressive when it comes to things that are barely visible, or about taking stuff away rather than adding it.
  • (11) The clubs in the bottom six splashed out £90m, more than half of total Premier League spending.
  • (12) In a story splashed across every major local newspaper, Rajab was accused of tweeting a photo that differed (albeit only slightly) from the official photo of the deceased released by the interior ministry.
  • (13) Dressing to impress Rather than splash out a fortune on a designer party dress, why not hire one from WishWantWear.com – it's still expensive but probably better than maxing out a credit card.
  • (14) 8.09pm BST 8 min: Alonso splashes the ball into the box.
  • (15) The patient's daughter presented a typical background of IP and dyschromic splashed lesions.
  • (16) Retrospective media analysis would probably show that the term welfare was used increasingly during the 1990s often in a derogatory manner – a 1993 Sunday Times splash about lone mothers being "wedded to welfare" being a typical example.
  • (17) The Daily Record , doing what it has always done best, sent their man in for an overnight stay and then splashed his report across its front page.
  • (18) However, this did include £14.99 splashed out on a "QPR history book" in September 2007.
  • (19) Tim Kirkham , of foreign currency specialists HiFX, blamed the euro's weakness on EU leaders' failure to agree when their new bailout fund can start putting capital into failing eurozone banks: Berlin has insisted that the Supervisor needs to be up and running and be effective before the ESM can start to splash its cash.
  • (20) You could build your own cheaply – you'll need two chambers with a vent, hatch and removable seat – but if you want something more attractive you will have to splash out.