Drip

Verb

 * 1)  To fall one drop at a time.
 * Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad!
 * 1)  To leak slowly.
 * Does the sink drip, or have I just spilt water over the floor?
 * 1)  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.
 * 1) with with To have a superabundance of valuable things.
 * The Old Hall simply drips with masterpieces of the Flemish painters.
 * The duchess was dripping with jewels.

Derived terms

 * dripper

Noun



 * 1) A drop of a liquid.
 * I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  A limp, ineffectual, boring or otherwise uninteresting person.
 * He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!

Derived terms

 * drip irrigation

drip


 * 1)  Dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing

Adverbs for Drip
monotonously; drearily; steadily; ceaselessly; intermittently; maddeningly; torturingly.

Thesaurus
balderdash, baloney, boob, bore, bull, bunk, bushwa, buttonholer, chump, clod, condensation, condense, crashing bore, damper, distill, distillation, dolt, dope, drag, dribble, dripping, drippings, dripple, drivel, drizzle, drop, dryasdust, dullard, dusty, exude, filter, flat tire, frightful bore, goon, gurgle, gush, headache, humdrum, killjoy, leach, leaching, leak, leak out, leakage, leaking, lixiviate, lixiviation, milksop, moron, nuisance, ooze, percolate, percolation, pest, pill, pour, proser, seep, seepage, seeping, simpleton, sluice, spatter, sprinkle, spurtle, stream, sweat, sweating, trickle, tricklet, trill, twaddle, twaddler, weed, weep, wet, wet blanket

Verb

 * Bulgarian:
 * Croatian:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: טפטף


 * Hungarian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: kapać
 * Scottish Gaelic: fras


 * Bulgarian:
 * Croatian: curiti, cijediti
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:, ,


 * German:
 * Hungarian: szivárog
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: ciec, przeciekać


 * Bulgarian: изкапвам
 * Croatian: nakapati, ukapati
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Hungarian: csöpögtet, csepegtet
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: nakapać

Noun

 * Bulgarian: капка
 * Chinese: 滴 (dī)
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:


 * Hebrew: טיפה (t'ipa)
 * Norwegian: dråpe
 * Polish: kropla
 * Swedish:


 * Chinese: 乏味的人 (fáwèiderén)
 * Finnish:


 * German:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese: 吊针 (diàozhēn)
 * French: goutte-à-goutte
 * German:


 * Norwegian: drypp
 * Polish: kroplówka
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish: