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What (who) is drip$23065$ - definition
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Drips; DRIPs; DRIP; Drip (disambiguation); DRIP (disambiguation)
drip
¦ verb (drips, dripping, dripped) let fall small drops of liquid.
?fall in small drops.
¦ noun
1. a small drop of a liquid.
2. Medicine an apparatus which slowly passes fluid, nutrients, or drugs into a patient's body intravenously.
3. informal a weak and ineffectual person.
4. Architecture a projection on a moulding, channelled to prevent rain from running down the wall below.
Origin
OE dryppan, dry?pen, of Gmc origin; related to drop.
drip
(drips, dripping, dripped)
1.
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...
Amid the trees the sea mist was dripping...
The children kept dripping Coke on the carpets.
VERB: V prep/adv, V, V n prep/adv
2.
When something drips, drops of liquid fall from it.
A tap in the kitchen was dripping...
Lou was dripping with perspiration...
He was holding a cloth that dripped pink drops upon the floor.
VERB: V, V with n, V n
3.
A drip is a small individual drop of a liquid.
Drips of water rolled down the trousers of his uniform.
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4.
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.
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5.
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: usu cont, V with n
6.
drip
I. v. n.
1.
Trickle, fall in drops, dribble.
2.
Have drops falling from.
II. v. a.
Let fall in drops.
Wikipedia
Drip
Drip or DRIP may refer to:
- Mesomycetozoea, a class of eukaryotes also known as the DRIP clade
- Drip gas, natural gas condensate
- Drip irrigation, in agriculture and gardening
- Dripping liquid
- Drip email (campaign), the process of automatically sending planned, scheduled emails to contacts or prospects
- Drip, an old-fashioned mild pejorative for someone exceptionally eccentric or lacking in social skills
- Intravenous therapy, in health and medicine
- Murphy drip, in proctoclysis
- Lithospheric drip, in geology
- Post-nasal drip, excessive mucus produced by the sinuses
- DRiP, Dividend reinvestment plan, in finance
- DRIP, one of the MARID protocol proposals in computing
- DRIP, Differentiate Reminder Inform Persuade, in marketing
- DRIP, the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014, a piece of UK legislation
- DRIP, Vitamin D Receptor Interacting Protein
- Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
