drip
see also: DRIP
Pronunciation
DRIP
Noun
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see also: DRIP
Pronunciation
- IPA: /dɹɪp/
drip (drips, present participle dripping; past and past participle dripped)
- (intransitive) To fall one drop at a time.
- Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad!
- (intransitive) To leak slowly.
- Does the sink drip, or have I just spilt water over the floor?
- (transitive) To let fall in drops.
- After putting oil on the side of the salad, the chef should drip a little vinegar in the oil.
- My broken pen dripped ink onto the table.
- RQ
- Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain.
- (intransitive, usually, with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.
- The Old Hall simply drips with masterpieces of the Flemish painters.
- The duchess was dripping with jewels.
- (intransitive, of the weather) To rain lightly.
- The weather isn't so bad. I mean, it's dripping, but you're not going to get so wet.
- (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked.
- (UK, naval slang, intransitive) To whine or complain consistently; to grumble.
- 1995, Sue Innes, Making it work: women, change and challenge in the 1990s (page 21)
- The Women's Royal Naval Service was integrated with the Royal Navy in November 1993. […] Men interviewed by Public Eye (April, 1994) said they should 'stop dripping about it' and that women should learn to 'take it like a man […]
- 2012, I. H. Milburn, Falklands War - Get STUFT
- The government had been slowly running down the Royal Navy Organisation to save money on various peoples' budgets, so now we had to sub-contract ships to go to war! So stop dripping and "make it so", all those admirals can't be wrong!
- 1995, Sue Innes, Making it work: women, change and challenge in the 1990s (page 21)
- French: goutter, goutteler, tomber goutte à goutte
- German: tropfen
- Italian: gocciolare
- Portuguese: pingar, gotejar
- Russian: ка́пать
- Spanish: gotear
drip (plural drips)
- A drop of a liquid.
- I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.
- A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
- the light drip of the suspended oar
- (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.
- He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip.
- (colloquial) A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
- He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!
- (architecture) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.
- German: Einfaltspinsel
- Portuguese: chato
- Russian: зануда
- Spanish: aburro
- French: goutte-à-goutte
- German: Tropf
- Italian: flebo
- Portuguese: bolsa
- Russian: ка́пельница
- Spanish: goteo, suero
DRIP
Noun
drip (plural drips)
- (finance) Acronym of dividend reinvestment plan or dividend reinvestment program
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