Drip (band)
WordNet
noun
(1) (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway)
(2) The sound of a liquid falling drop by drop
"The constant sound of dripping irritated him"
(3) Flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid
"There's a drip through the roof"
verb
(4) Fall in drops
"Water is dripping from the faucet"
WiktionaryText
English
Verb
- To fall one drop at a time.
- Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad!
- To leak slowly.
- Does the sink drip, or have I just spilt water over the floor?
- 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.
- 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.
Noun
- A drop of a liquid.
- I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.
- 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.
- A limp, ineffectual, boring or otherwise uninteresting person.
- He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!
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