drip
verb
- 1
To fall one drop at a time.
“Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad!”
- 2
To leak slowly.
“Does the sink drip, or have I just spilt water over the floor?”
- 3
To let fall in drops.
“After putting oil on the side of the salad, the chef should drip a little vinegar in the oil.”
- 4
(usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.
“The Old Hall simply drips with masterpieces of the Flemish painters.”
- 5
(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.”
- 6
To be wet, to be soaked.
- 7
To whine or complain consistently; to grumble.
noun
- 1
A drop of a liquid.
“I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.”
- 2
A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
- 3
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.”
- 4
A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
“He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!”
- 5
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.
noun
- 1
A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.
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