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What (who) is Drip - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
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
I
n. a steady drip
II
v.
1) (D; intr.) to drip from (the water was dripping from the tap)
2) (D; intr.) to drip with
Drip
·vt To let fall in drops.
II. Drip ·vi To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves.
III. Drip ·vi To let fall drops of moisture or liquid; as, a wet garment drips.
IV. Drip ·noun A falling or letting fall in drops; a dripping; that which drips, or falls in drops.
V. Drip ·noun That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and is of such section as to throw off the rain water.
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
Examples of use of Drip
1. That is only the drip–drip–drip of tragedy as usual.
2. For Congress, it‘s not clear how the drip, drip, drip of scandal revelations will play in midterm elections.
3. Mr Morpurgo said there was a "drip, drip, drip effect" of academic pressure and marketing which was killing childhood.
4. Hear the play of water drops: drip, drip, drip!) I know all about the play of water drops.
5. Drip by drip, this great and imaginative idea has been eroded.