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What (who) is drip-dry - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Drips; DRIPs; DRIP; Drip (disambiguation); DRIP (disambiguation)
drip-dry
Drip-dry clothes or sheets are made of a fabric that dries free of creases when it is hung up wet.
...drip-dry shirts.
ADJ
drip-dry
¦ verb (of fabric or a garment) become dry without forming creases when hung up after washing.
¦ adjective capable of drip-drying.
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.
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-dry
1. Beyond that were the floral prints and the drip–dry shirts of the laity and junior clergy, all gathered in a domed Chamber which matches this tolerant Church‘s sometimes circular resolve.
2. Tonight the broadcaster – who is equally at home quizzing the drip–dry suits of the business world about pensions on Working Lunch, as he is discussing dodgy offside decisions on Match of the Day 2 – begins co–hosting a prime time Nationwide–style nightly magazine programme on BBC1 with Nadia Sawalha.