Drip

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  • intransitive verb. To fall in drops.
  • intransitive verb. To shed drops.
  • intransitive verb. To ooze or be saturated with or as if with liquid.
  • intransitive verb. To let fall in or as if in drops.
  • noun. The process of forming and falling in drops.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Liquid or moisture that falls in drops.
  • noun. A slight intermittent flow or leak.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The sound made by liquid falling in drops.
  • noun. A projection on a cornice or sill from which rainwater can drip, protecting the wall below.
  • noun. A tiresome or annoying person.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To fall in drops.
  • To shed or let fall a liquid in drops, as a wet garment or a roof.
  • To let fall in drops.
  • noun. A drop. See drop, n.
  • noun. A falling or letting fall in drops; a dripping.
  • noun. That which falls in drops; specifically, dripping, or melted fat which drips from meat while roasting.
  • noun. In architecture, a projecting member of a cornice, etc., so cut as to throw off water, which would without it trickle down upon the parts beneath. See dripstone.
  • noun. A receptacle for waste or overflow: as, the drip of a water-cooler or a refrigerator.
  • noun. In meteorology, the drops of water which fall from leaves and other objects which are enveloped by clouds or fog, or covered with dew.
  • noun. An inclined wooden platform, used in the manufacture of salt, for draining the salt before it is conveyed to the storehouse.
  • noun. A deposit formed from dripping water, as stalactites in caves.
  • noun. In horticulture, the water that drips from the sash-bars and other roof-structure of a glass-house.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To let fall in drops.
  • noun. A falling or letting fall in drops; a dripping; that which drips, or falls in drops.
  • noun. That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and is of such section as to throw off the rain water.
  • noun. an easement or servitude by which a man has the right to have the water flowing from his house fall on the land of his neighbor.
  • intransitive verb. To fall in drops.
  • intransitive verb. To let fall drops of moisture or liquid.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To fall one drop at a time.
  • verb. To leak slowly.
  • verb. To put a small amount of a liquid on something, drop by drop.
  • verb. To have a superabundance of valuable things.
  • verb. to rain lightly.
  • verb. to be wet, to be soaked.
  • noun. A drop of a liquid.
  • noun. An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream (an intravenous drip).
  • noun. A limp, ineffectual, boring or otherwise uninteresting person.
  • initialism. Dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. fall in drops
  • verb. let or cause to fall in drops
  • noun. (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway)
  • noun. flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid
  • noun. the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop
  • Word Usage
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    comedown  descend  fall  godown  pour  
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    Chip  Crip  Flip  Kip  Nip  
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    balderdash  baloney  boob  bore  bull  
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    dripped  dripping  
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    dripped  dripping  drips