Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
fair sprinkling of water
English answer:
a modest number of water hazards
Added to glossary by
Shirley Chen
Nov 19, 2009 08:47
14 yrs ago
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English term
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fair sprinkling of water
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Tourism & Travel
Golf course
Elevated greens,....plus a fair sprinkling of water and woods make this course distinctive.
When "fair" combines with "sprinkling of water", what does it mean?
When "fair" combines with "sprinkling of water", what does it mean?
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56 mins
Rolf Keiser
Switzerland
Switzerland
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a modest number of water hazards
presumably the text is about a golf course and this is a description of it:
fairways, greens, roughs, woods, sand traps and water hazards
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Note added at 3 days6 hrs (2009-11-22 15:37:01 GMT) Post-grading
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Thanks, Shirley
fairways, greens, roughs, woods, sand traps and water hazards
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Note added at 3 days6 hrs (2009-11-22 15:37:01 GMT) Post-grading
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Thanks, Shirley
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you very much, Goldcoaster, for your answer and also for pointing out it's about water hazards. "
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Yasutomo Kanazawa
Japan
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moderate amount of sprinkling water
fair here means a moderate amount or quite a satisfactory amount; not too less, nor not too much.
Note from asker:
| Thank you very much, Yusutomo, for the answer. I think your definition for "fair" is correct too. |
Peer comment(s):
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Sheila Wilson
: but it's not "sprinkling", it's just lying there in ponds
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cmwilliams (X)
: it's not 'sprinkling water'. It means a reasonable mix of water (hazards) and woods.
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Liam Hamilton
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Thank you Liam
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Cilian O'Tuama
: has nothing to do with water sprinklers
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Sheila Wilson
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quite a large amount of water
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sprinkling of water is used figuratively to describe a quantity of water; sit evokes the idea that someone has watered the golf course with water over a long period and the lowest areas have filled with water.
fair (in this context) = quite; reasonably
In other words, it's a favourable comment about the golf course, which has more water than some courses.
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sorry, for reasonablY read reasonablE. As Yasutomo says, moderate is another synonym
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sprinkling of water is used figuratively to describe a quantity of water; sit evokes the idea that someone has watered the golf course with water over a long period and the lowest areas have filled with water.
fair (in this context) = quite; reasonably
In other words, it's a favourable comment about the golf course, which has more water than some courses.
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sorry, for reasonablY read reasonablE. As Yasutomo says, moderate is another synonym
Note from asker:
| Thank you very much, Sheila, for helping find the definition of "fair". I really appreciate it. |
Peer comment(s):
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kmtext
: It sounds like there are a lot of small ponds around the course.
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Thanks - yes, probably half filled with little white balls
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Vicky Nash
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Bashiqa
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juvera
: Not because they happened to be filled with water due to overwatering. In that case first of all the bunkers would be filled with water. / Figurative explanation may not help... "Dotted with water hazards" or something like that would be more evocative
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Treu, if it had literally been watered. I did say it was figurative, though :-) // You could indeed say that - it's a pity the source document didn't, really!
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Andy Watkinson
4 hrs
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Thanks
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Cilian O'Tuama
: you wouldn't say a golf course has "a large amount of water"
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Quite probably not, Cilian - however I was simply paraphrasing to answer the asker's question about fair + sprinkling of water. It is NOT meant to be a translation, more a definition
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a perfect/ideal sprinkling of water
"Fair" usually means somewhere right in the middle.
In this case the sprinkling of water would not be excessive/extreme and not too sparse/little since both would not benefit the grass.
It's probably "just right"or "just perfect" or "ideal" for the purposes of getting the golf greens as green as green can be.
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A perfect/ideal sprinkling of water and woods.... (since water itself is not being sprinkled)...
In this case the sprinkling of water would not be excessive/extreme and not too sparse/little since both would not benefit the grass.
It's probably "just right"or "just perfect" or "ideal" for the purposes of getting the golf greens as green as green can be.
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A perfect/ideal sprinkling of water and woods.... (since water itself is not being sprinkled)...
Note from asker:
| Thank you, Joyce, for your answer. |
Peer comment(s):
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cmwilliams (X)
: The water is referring to water hazards, not the sprinkling of water.
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Yes! And I had subsequently corrected myself with my comment above...I realized that it's more of an nice/ideal scattering/mix of water and woods...
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Sarah Bessioud
Germany
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20
quite a lot of water dotted around
I think it is important to convey the notion of 'sprinkling' here - the water (hazards) being sprinkled over or dotted around the course. (Fair, in this instance, meaning quite a lot)
Note from asker:
| Thank you, Jeux_de_Mots, for your answer. |
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5 hrs
reasonable amount of water hazards and woods
this above is the paraphrased meaning... Also perhaps the adjectives liberal or ample better convey what I think the intended meaning is. Cmwilliams has already pointed this out...
Note from asker:
| Thank you, Wil. Your answer is correct too. |
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