英语词汇“drip”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense drips, present participle dripping, past tense, past participle dripped

1. verb

When liquid drips somewhere, or you drip it somewhere, it falls in individual small drops.

Sit your child forward and let the blood drip into a tissue or on to the floor. [VERB preposition/adverb]

Amid the trees the sea mist was dripping. [VERB]

The children kept dripping Coke on the carpets. [VERB noun preposition/adverb]

2. verb

When something drips, drops of liquid fall from it.

A tap in the kitchen was dripping. [VERB]

Lou was dripping with perspiration. [VERB + with]

He was holding a cloth that dripped pink drops upon the floor. [VERB noun]

Synonyms: drop, splash, sprinkle, trickle More Synonyms of drip

3. countable noun

A drip is a small individual drop of a liquid.

Drips of water rolled down the trousers of his uniform.

Synonyms: drop, bead, trickle, dribble More Synonyms of drip

4. countable noun

A drip is a piece of medical equipment by which a liquid is slowly passed through a tube into a patient's blood.

I had a bad attack of pneumonia and spent two days in hospital on a drip.

5. verb [usually cont]

If you say that something is dripping with a particular thing, you mean that it contains a lot of that thing.

[literary]

They were dazed by window displays dripping with diamonds and furs. [VERB + with]

His voice was dripping with sarcasm. [VERB with noun]

6. countable noun

If you call someone a drip, you mean that they are rather stupid and lacking in enthusiasm or energy.

[informal, disapproval]

7. See also drip-dry, dripping

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drip

(drɪp)

n (c)

(= drop) 一滴 (yī dī)
(sound) 水滴声(聲) (shuǐdīshēng)
(Med) 滴液 (dīyè)
(inf, = person) 讨(討)厌(厭)鬼 (tǎoyànguǐ)

vi

[water, rain] 滴下 (dīxià)
[tap] 漏水 (lòushuǐ)
[washing, clothes etc] 滴水 (dīshuǐ)

vt

(= spill, trail) 使滴下 (shǐ dīxià)

单词	drip
释义	Trends of drip View usage for: drip (drɪp) Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense drips, present participle dripping, past tense, past participle dripped 1. verb When liquid drips somewhere, or you drip it somewhere, it falls in individual small drops. Sit your child forward and let the blood drip into a tissue or on to the floor. [VERB preposition/adverb] Amid the trees the sea mist was dripping. [VERB] The children kept dripping Coke on the carpets. [VERB noun preposition/adverb] 2. verb When something drips, drops of liquid fall from it. A tap in the kitchen was dripping. [VERB] Lou was dripping with perspiration. [VERB + with] He was holding a cloth that dripped pink drops upon the floor. [VERB noun] Synonyms: drop, splash, sprinkle, trickle More Synonyms of drip 3. countable noun A drip is a small individual drop of a liquid. Drips of water rolled down the trousers of his uniform. Synonyms: drop, bead, trickle, dribble More Synonyms of drip 4. countable noun A drip is a piece of medical equipment by which a liquid is slowly passed through a tube into a patient's blood. I had a bad attack of pneumonia and spent two days in hospital on a drip. 5. verb [usually cont] If you say that something is dripping with a particular thing, you mean that it contains a lot of that thing. [literary] They were dazed by window displays dripping with diamonds and furs. [VERB + with] His voice was dripping with sarcasm. [VERB with noun] 6. countable noun If you call someone a drip, you mean that they are rather stupid and lacking in enthusiasm or energy. [informal, disapproval] 7. See also drip-dry, dripping More Synonyms of drip drip in British English (drɪp) verbWord forms: drips, dripping or dripped 1. to fall or let fall in drops noun 2. the formation and falling of drops of liquid 3. the sound made by falling drops 4. architecture a projection at the front lower edge of a sill or cornice designed to throw water clear of the wall below 5. informal an inane, insipid person 6. medicine a. the usually intravenous drop-by-drop administration of a therapeutic solution, as of salt or sugar b. the solution administered c. the equipment used to administer a solution in this way Word origin Old English dryppan, from dropa drop drip in American English (drɪp) verb intransitiveWord forms: dripped or dript, ˈdripping 1. to fall in or as in drops 2. to let drops of liquid fall 3. to be so soaked or filled with liquid as to have some trickle down or over verb transitive 4. to let fall in drops noun 5. a falling in drops; trickling 6. moisture or liquid falling in drops 7. the sound made by liquid falling in drops 8. a channel cut on the underside of a sill, cornice, etc. for carrying off rainwater; also, such a sill, cornice, etc. 9. Slang a person regarded as unpleasant or insipid 10. Medicine a continuous giving of a solution of salt, sugar, etc., esp. intravenously Derived forms dripper (ˈdripper) noun Word origin ME dryppen < OE dryppan, intens. form (< Gmc drupjan), akin to dreopan (Ger triefen), to drop, drip < IE dhreub- < base dhreu-, to break away > dreary Examples of 'drip' in a sentence drip He had a cut on his forehead and his blood was dripping into my ear. The Sun (2016) Others are tied to their moorings by tubes and drips. Times, Sunday Times (2016) You should have a couple of tablespoons of fat - if not, make up the quantity with beef dripping. The Sun (2017) I'll wring them like wet laundry, until a bit of blood drips in them. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Police have widened the longrunning inquiry into the contamination of saline drips to include a fourth death. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Let the caramel drip over the top and form an amber pool at the base. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Together they were bound with ropes so tightly that the blood dripped from their fingers. Philip Marsden The Barefoot Emperor: An Ethiopian Tragedy (2007) It will thicken as it sits and the liquid drips through. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The patient remained alive until morning despite requests from the family to remove her intravenous drip. Times, Sunday Times (2011) She had cut herself with her right hand and it had dripped on the floor and her ballet pumps. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Imagine the walls dripping with moisture. Vera Peiffer POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but wereafraid to put into practice (2001) The saline drip was not enough. The Sun (2010) As a drip slowly trickled into her veins, she revived like a neglected house plant. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Smiling nurses buzzed around the beds changing drips, washing patients and preparing some for further operations. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Drink from test tubes, drip packets and syringes. Times, Sunday Times (2007) We'll also cook in lard and beef dripping. The Sun (2012) The walls drip, the shadows loom and the rumbling trains obligingly sound like an elemental avalanche. Times, Sunday Times (2013) The lucky ones who fit the criteria then lie back while a researcher drips a few drops of a virus into their nostrils. Times, Sunday Times (2011) THE nurse accused of tampering with saline drips at a hospital after a probe into patient deaths will face trial early next year. The Sun (2011) I was fed through a drip, but slowly began to eat mushy vegetables. The Sun (2016) Your task is to attach the candle to the wall and light it in such a way that the wax won't drip onto the floor. Claudia Hammond EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER: A Journey Through the Science of Feelings (2005) Then she added yesterday: 'Great in hospital on a drip. The Sun (2013) A mixture of anger, defiance, conspiracy theories and dripping sarcasm that suggested here was a man at the end of his tether. The Sun (2013) Word lists with drip architectural features In other languages drip British English: drip /drɪp/ NOUN A drip* is a small individual drop of a liquid. ...drips of water. American English: drop liquid Arabic: قَطْرَة Brazilian Portuguese: pingo Chinese: 滴液 Croatian: kapljica Czech: kapka Danish: drop Dutch: druppel European Spanish: gota Finnish: tippa French: goutte German: Tropfen Greek: στάξιμο Italian: goccia Japanese: したたり Korean: 물방울 Norwegian: drypping Polish: kropla European Portuguese: gota Romanian: picătură Russian: капля Latin American Spanish: goteo Swedish: dropp Thai: หยดน้ำ Turkish: damla Ukrainian: крапля Vietnamese: nhỏ giọt British English: drip /drɪp/ VERB When liquid drips somewhere, it falls in small drops. Rain dripped from the brim of his cap. American English: drip Arabic: يَقْطُرُ Brazilian Portuguese: pingar Chinese: 滴下 Croatian: kapati Czech: kapat Danish: dryppe Dutch: druppelen European Spanish: gotear Finnish: tippua French: goutter German: tropfen Greek: στάζω Italian: gocciolare Japanese: したたる Korean: 똑똑 떨어지다 Norwegian: dryppe Polish: kapnąć European Portuguese: pingar Romanian: a picura Russian: капать Latin American Spanish: gotear Swedish: droppa Thai: ทำให้หยด Turkish: damlamak Ukrainian: капати Vietnamese: chảy nhỏ giọt British English: drip NOUN A drip is a small individual drop of a liquid. Drips of water rolled down the trousers of his uniform. American English: drip Brazilian Portuguese: gota Chinese: 滴 European Spanish: gota French: goutte German: Tropfen Italian: goccia Japanese: 滴 Korean: 물방울 European Portuguese: gota Latin American Spanish: gota All related terms of 'drip' drip bag a bag used for administering an intravenous solution to a patient drip-dry Drip-dry clothes or sheets are made of a fabric that dries free of creases when it is hung up wet. drip-feed If you drip-feed money into something, you pay the money a little at a time rather than paying it all at once. drip mat a little mat that you place under drinking glasses to catch drips drip tray a tray , sometimes with a slotted cover, designed to catch drips , as under a beer tap , sump , plant pot , etc drip-dried designating clothing or a fabric that will dry relatively free of creases if hung up when wet drip-dries designating clothing or a fabric that will dry relatively free of creases if hung up when wet drip grind a fine grind of coffee, for use in filter coffee makers , in which the brew drips through a filter into the serving pot saline drip the usually intravenous drop-by-drop administration of an isotonic solution of sodium chloride in distilled water drip painting a technique of abstract painting exemplified chiefly in the later works of Jackson Pollock and marked by the intricately executed dripping and pouring of the paint on a canvas placed on the floor drip irrigation a system of crop irrigation involving the controlled delivery of water directly to individual plants through a network of tubes or pipes postnasal drip a mucus secretion from the rear part of the nasal cavity into the nasopharynx , usually as the result of a cold or an allergy intravenous drip a slow , continuous introduction of liquid medication or nutrients into a vein through a needle attached to an elevated pouch dripping pan a shallow pan placed under roasting meat to catch the dripping Chinese translation of 'drip' drip (drɪp) n (c) (= drop) 一滴 (yī dī) (sound) 水滴声(聲) (shuǐdīshēng) (Med) 滴液 (dīyè) (inf, = person) 讨(討)厌(厭)鬼 (tǎoyànguǐ) vi [water, rain] 滴下 (dīxià) [tap] 漏水 (lòushuǐ) [washing, clothes etc] 滴水 (dīshuǐ) vt (= spill, trail) 使滴下 (shǐ dīxià) (verb) in the sense of drop Definition to fall or let fall in drops a cloth that dripped pink drops upon the floor Synonyms drop He felt hot tears dropping onto his fingers. splash He closed his eyes tight, and splashed the water on his face. sprinkle trickle A tear trickled down his cheek. dribble Sweat dribbled down his face. exude the fluid that exudes from the cane toad's back drizzle Drizzle the remaining dressing over the duck. plop 1 (noun) in the sense of drop Definition a drop of liquid Drips of water rolled down his uniform. Synonyms drop a drop of blue ink bead beads of sweat trickle There was not so much as a trickle of water. dribble Apply a dribble of shampoo. droplet globule Bone marrow contains fat in the form of small globules. pearl driblet 2 (noun) in the sense of weakling Definition a weak or foolish person (informal) They think he's a drip! Synonyms weakling a craven weakling with no backbone or moral fibre wet (British, informal) weed (informal) softie (informal) pussycat (British, informal) mummy's boy (informal) namby-pamby ninny milksop You are a coward and a milksop. Additional synonyms in the sense of bead Definition a small drop of moisture beads of sweat Synonyms drop, tear, bubble, pearl, dot, drip, blob, droplet, globule, driblet in the sense of dribble Definition to flow or allow to flow in a thin stream or drops Sweat dribbled down his face. Synonyms run, drip, trickle, drop, leak, ooze, seep, fall in drops in the sense of dribble Definition a small quantity of liquid falling in drops or flowing in a thin stream Apply a dribble of shampoo. Synonyms trickle, drop, drizzle, dash, splash, drip Synonyms of 'drip' drip Explore 'drip' in the dictionary
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