drip
IPA: drˈɪp
noun
- A drop of a liquid.
- A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
- (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.
- (colloquial, derogatory) A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
- (architecture) 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.
- (slang, uncountable) Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing.
- (finance) A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.
- (finance) Acronym of dividend reinvestment plan or dividend reinvestment program.
verb
- (intransitive) To fall one drop at a time.
- (intransitive) To leak slowly.
- (transitive) To let fall in drops.
- (intransitive, usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.
- (intransitive, of the weather) To rain lightly.
- (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked.
- (UK, naval slang, intransitive) To whine or complain consistently; to grumble.
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Examples of "drip" in Sentences
- Truth rarely drips with mendacity.
- The water from the nets drips into a tube.
- The dripping blood in the beginning is blue.
- The condescension fairly drips off this page.
- An intravenous drip is used to hydrate the patient.
- The insertion of the intravenous drip is also not very clear.
- The coffee passes through a filter and drips down into the cup.
- The general location of the proton drip line is well established.
- The coffee passes through a filter and drips down into the carafe.
- The hat will assist in the prevention of sweat dripping down the face.