Drip
[drɪp]
Definition
(noun.) (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway).
(noun.) the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop; 'the constant sound of dripping irritated him'.
(noun.) flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid; 'there's a drip through the roof'.
(verb.) fall in drops; 'Water is dripping from the faucet'.
Typed by Avery--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves.
(v. i.) To let fall drops of moisture or liquid; as, a wet garment drips.
(v. t.) To let fall in drops.
(n.) A falling or letting fall in drops; a dripping; that which drips, or falls in drops.
(n.) 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.
Checked by Herman
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Dribble, trickle, fall in drops.[2]. Have drops falling from.
v. a. Let fall in drops.
Inputed by Cornelia
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Drop, ooze, percolate
ANT:Imbibe, swallow, absorb, suck, dry, retain, hold
Edited by Barbie
Definition
v.i. to fall in drops: to let fall drops.—v.t. to let fall in drops:—pr.p. drip′ping; pa.p. dripped.—n. a falling in drops: that which falls in drops: the edge of a root.—ns. Drip′ping that which falls in drops as fat from meat in roasting; Drip′ping-pan a pan for receiving the dripping from roasting meat; Drip′-stone a projecting moulding over doorways &c. to throw off the rain.—Right of drip right in law to let the drip from one's roof fall on another's land.
Editor: Tod
Examples
- I heard, through the dead silence, the soft drip of the rain and the tremulous passage of the night air through the trees. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He poured a second absinthe into his cup and took the cup of water the girl brought him and commenced to drip it into the cup, a little at a time. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- These troughs reach over to the center of the top of the joists, and are soldered together, so that no water will drip on the floor below. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- I hear the rain-drip on the stones, replies the young man, and I hear a curious echo--I suppose an echo--which is very like a halting step. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The nettles, the long grass, and the tombs all drip with wet. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The rain is ever falling--drip, drip, drip--by day and night upon the broad flagged terrace-pavement, the Ghost's Walk. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Finding him at last beginning to tire, we drew him into the boat, and brought him home dripping wet. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The trees were dripping in the rain. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The Boulevard was all deserted, its path miry, the water dripping from its trees; the park was black as midnight. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Sometimes the path led her to hollows between thickets of tall and dripping bracken, dead, though not yet prostrate, which enclosed her like a pool. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Shivering, dripping, and crying, they got Amy home, and after an exciting time of it, she fell asleep, rolled in blankets before a hot fire. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It was very wet and had been dripping on the floor. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Then, as I looked up at it, while it dripped, it seemed to my oppressed conscience like a phantom devoting me to the Hulks. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- They dragged us up a long inclined chute, and dripped candle-grease all over us. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The rain fell heavily on the roof, and pattered on the ground, and dripped among the evergreens and the leafless branches of the trees. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The rain, which was fast wetting me, dripped over the glass, blurred it, and prevented her from seeing anything. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Their leaps and bounds increased, their bared fangs dripped saliva, and their lips and breasts were flecked with foam. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- From the portico, from the eaves, from the parapet, from every ledge and post and pillar, drips the thawed snow. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Editor: Verna