What's the difference between puddle and splash?

Puddle


Definition:

  • (n.) A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool.
  • (n.) Clay, or a mixture of clay and sand, kneaded or worked, when wet, to render it impervious to water.
  • (v. t.) To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).
  • (v. t.) To make dense or close, as clay or loam, by working when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
  • (v. t.) To make impervious to liquids by means of puddle; to apply puddle to.
  • (v. t.) To subject to the process of puddling, as iron, so as to convert it from the condition of cast iron to that of wrought iron.
  • (v. i.) To make a dirty stir.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The umpires allow them a different one, perhaps because the previous incumbent was wet - it landed in a puddle, where the water-sucking thing had egested, apparently.
  • (2) Scores of sopping-wet pedestrians have complained to police after being splashed when motorists drove through puddles, figures show.
  • (3) Girls continue to fetch polluted water from muddy puddles and rivers, walking past broken hand-pumps and schools they would be attending if they had the time.
  • (4) There are mothers in pastel hijabs, men in T-shirts and longyis, and naked children clutching on to grandparents, jostling for space among puddles and dust, held back by guards with rifles.
  • (5) Marcus is totally, completely, 100% not guilty, but the trauma of finding family tartare strewn around his house has inspired him to prove his innocence via moves that range from "violent shouting", "lying down in puddles covered in his wife's blood" and "escaping from police custody to run around Manchester with his hood up, punching everyone".
  • (6) Results are discussed in terms of chlorophyll organization in developing photosynthetic membranes with reference to the lake or puddle models of photosynthetic unit organization.
  • (7) In one, contrast enhanced CT demonstrated peripheral puddles of contrast medium within the mass, similar to the findings seen in cavernous hemangiomas of the liver.
  • (8) Aaron grew up in Chico, California, a giant hop, skip and puddle jump from Candlestick Park.
  • (9) But by drawing leadership from such a tiny gene puddle they reflected an aberration of the very democratic impulses and meritocratic culture with which most Americans identify and apparently cherish.
  • (10) The authors have made investigations about the presence of pathogen mycobacteria in puddles of rain water and in rill waters of sanitary formations and municipal slaughter-house of Yaoundé.
  • (11) Walking becomes an exercise in dodging mud puddles.
  • (12) Last week he unveiled a house in Southwark made of 10 tonnes of wax bricks, which will be heated each morning over the coming month, until is is no more than a mushy puddle on the pavement.
  • (13) An approximate calculation of the ratio of the power put into the boat's motion to the power lost as water movement in the oar "puddle" suggests that increasing the blade area of the oar will result in improved efficiency.
  • (14) It's the infrastructure – Moscow, a sprawling metropolis that is home to 11.5 million people officially, and up to 17 million unofficially, has almost no drains on its roads, leaving melting snow and mud puddles to stagnate with nowhere to go.
  • (15) John Torode asks ex-athlete Darren Campbell, poking a plate of puddle-water with noodles.
  • (16) The two most recent additions to the estate are Bumpkin and Puddle cottages, converted from an ancient farm building with thick stone walls and beamed ceilings.
  • (17) Seemingly spontaneous holiday larks abound; we're one puddle of purple vomit away from the dream Brits abroad weekend.
  • (18) Instead, the officers had to guide the way with torches, helpless to offer shelter to the tired clusters of men, women and children coming through the puddles at the side of the motorway in the darkness.
  • (19) He has been trailed through mud, puddles and cow pats; dropped and recovered countless times; handed back to us by supermarket security guards and kindly old ladies; washed, very rarely.
  • (20) The reasons for reindwelling the catheter in 6 patients were: 1) the urostoma had come to be at skin level by disturbance of blood supply for the ureter, and 2) urine puddled just on the urostoma and oozed out between the skin and Varicare flange.

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.