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drip

1

[ drip ]

verb (used without object)

, dripped or dript, drip·ping.
  1. to let drops fall; shed drops:

    This faucet drips.

  2. to fall in drops, as a liquid.

    Synonyms: drizzle, sprinkle, leak, dribble, trickle



verb (used with object)

, dripped or dript, drip·ping.
  1. to let fall in drops.

noun

  1. an act of dripping.
  2. liquid that drips.
  3. the sound made by falling drops:

    the irritating drip of a faucet.

  4. Slang. an unattractive, boring, or colorless person.
  5. (in house painting) the accumulation of solidified drops of paint at the bottom of a painted surface.
  6. Architecture, Building Trades. any device, as a molding, for shedding rainwater to keep it from running down a wall, falling onto the sill of an opening, etc.
  7. a pipe for draining off condensed steam from a radiator, heat exchanger, etc.
  8. Medicine/Medical. intravenous drip.
  9. Slang. maudlin sentimentality.

DRIP

2

[ dee-ahr-ahy-pee, drip ]

abbreviation for

, Business, Finance.
  1. dividend reinvestment plan: a program under which investors opt to have their dividends automatically applied to the purchase of more shares in the company, increasing their investment while avoiding commission charges.

drip

/ drɪp /

verb

  1. to fall or let fall in drops


noun

  1. the formation and falling of drops of liquid
  2. the sound made by falling drops
  3. architect a projection at the front lower edge of a sill or cornice designed to throw water clear of the wall below
  4. informal.
    an inane, insipid person
  5. med
    1. the usually intravenous drop-by-drop administration of a therapeutic solution, as of salt or sugar
    2. the solution administered
    3. the equipment used to administer a solution in this way

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Other Words From

  • non·drip adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of drip1

First recorded before 1000; Middle English dryppe, Old English dryppan; drop

Origin of drip2

First recorded in 1975–80

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Word History and Origins

Origin of drip1

Old English dryppan, from dropa drop

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Example Sentences

There are just these tiny little drips of information that get sent to the reader a little bit at a time.

From Vox

A drip drug that allows engineering of the blood system could become a public health boon as significant as vaccines.

Shading occasionally simulates depth, and drips saunter atop the compositions, as if to ring a final note of disorder.

For example, irrigation systems that deliver water through slow drips cut water use by up to 60% compared with sprinklers.

There has been new reporting that he, too, was in the Justice Department’s crosshairs for stock trades that paid off handsomely at the start of the pandemic, and there has been a steady drip of other news about his stock trades.

Meanwhile, Beth is working from inside the hospital to secure the drugs Carol needs and to keep her hooked up to an IV drip.

Mixner would insert it via an IV and hold his friend until the drip was completed.

But as one Republican consultant put it, “There is a drip drip.”

I'm kind of afraid of needles, but if there were a personal intravenous caffeine drip, I would seriously consider it.

His face is gory and pitted with deep shrapnel wounds and his injured hands drip blood on the rumpled woolen blankets.

I lay against a corner of the stockade seat, listening to the wind whispering and to the ceaseless drip-drip of the trees.

Her soft murmuring voice has stolen into his brain; he hears it in the drip, drip of the rain on the sill outside.

Still, there was not much chance of her going out in the fog—and now that he listened, he heard the drip of rain.

The brook was whispering secret things, and the drip from the trees made a soft tinkle, just detectable, on its pools.

In replacing the drip pan of an ice box or refrigerator it is often necessary to bend over in locating it under the drip pipe.

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