drip
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɪp
[edit] Verb
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to drip (third-person singular simple present drips, present participle dripping, simple 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 put a small amount of a liquid on something, drop by drop.
- After putting oil on the side of the salad, the chef should drip a little vinegar in the oil.
- (idiomatic) To have a superabundance of valuable things. Usually followed by "with".
- The Old Hall simply drips with masterpieces of the Flemish painters.
- The duchess was dripping with jewels.
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[edit] Translations
to fall one drop at a time
to leak slowly
to put a small amount of a liquid on something, drop by drop
[edit] Noun
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drip (plural drips)
- A drop of a liquid.
- I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.
- (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream (an intravenous drip).
- He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip.
- (colloquial) A limp, ineffectual, boring or otherwise uninteresting person.
- He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!
[edit] Translations
a drop of a liquid
a boring or otherwise uninteresting person
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an apparatus that slowly releases a liquid
[edit] Acronym
drip
