drizzle
IPA: drˈɪzʌɫ
noun
- Light rain.
- (physics, weather) Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground.
- (slang) Water.
- (baking) A cake onto which icing, honey or syrup has been drizzled in an artistic manner.
verb
- (impersonal) To rain lightly.
- (transitive, intransitive) To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.
- (cooking, transitive) To pour slowly and evenly, especially oil or honey in cooking.
- (cooking, transitive) To cover by pouring in this manner.
- (slang) To urinate.
- (dated) To carry out parfilage, the process of unravelling.
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Examples of "drizzle" in Sentences
- A light drizzle fell in the second half.
- The drizzle recalled mistily the same year 11.
- Jharipani means drizzle and the onslaught of monsoons.
- An icing packet comes with to drizzle atop the pastry.
- Most of the precipitation falls as drizzle or light rain.
- There is constant fog and drizzle in the summer and rain in the winter.
- Summer fogs often produce light drizzle in the night and morning hours.