Drip

Definition: Drip

Drip

Noun

1. Flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid; "there's a drip through the roof".

2. (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater.

Verb

1. Fall in drops; of liquids.

2. Let or cause to fall in drops; "dribble oil into the mixture".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "drip" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)

Building

Food & Agriculture

Medicine

Occupations

Public Administration

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Drip

Remedy

Medicine, physic, Galenicals, simples, drug, pharmaceutical, prescription, potion, draught, dose, pill, bolus, injection, infusion, drip, suppository, electuary; linctus, lincture; medicament; pharmacon.

River

Verb: flow, run; meander; gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue; drop, drip, dribble, plash, spirtle, trill, trickle, distill, percolate; stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash; guggle, murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgle, sputter, spurt, spray, regurgitate; ooze, flow out. (egress).

Crosswords: Drip

Frisian (drop, drop of water), Scottish (hurry, See <A HREF="mf04.html#driop">driop</A>).

I would say you're in need of a thorazine drip, Doctor (K-PAX; writing credit: Charles Leavitt)

Please turn me on I'm Mister Coffee with an automatic drip (The Bad Touch; performing artist: Bloodhound Gang)

Down to the last drip drop, watch the hips rock (What'Chu Like; performing artist: Da Brat)

Astral bodies drip like wine (Impressive Instant; performing artist: Madonna; writing credit: Madonna and Mirwais Ahmadzai)

The Big Drip (1949)

Drip Dippy Donald (1948)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Drip and Micro Irrigation Systems in India: A Strategic Entry Report, 1999 (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Drip Drop (reference)

• Drip Drop: Genesis 6-8 (Noah's Ark) (reference)

• Drip! Drop!: How Water Gets to Your Tap (reference)

• Drip, Drop (Giant First Start Reader) (reference)

• Drip, Drop (I Can Read) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Drip (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Capresso 402.01 Coffee Break 4-Cup Drip Coffeemaker, Black (reference)

• Rain Bird ADZ200X-ASV Automatic Drip Zone Kit - Anti-Siphon Valve (reference)

• Briel ED271APG Multi-Pro Stainless Pump Espresso With10C Drip Coffeemaker (reference)

• Metrokane Wine Drip Stop Ring (reference)

• DeLonghi DC122 12-Cup Automatic Drip Coffeemaker with Programmable Digital Timer (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Charlie Conerly (left), NRCS RC&D Coordinator and farmer in Mariana, FL, discuss the benefits of drip irrigation.[Slide 97CS3082]. Credit: Bob Nichols.

Drip irrigation delivers small amounts of water to young citrus trees in California's Imperial Valley. This type of irrigation is highly efficient because it delivers small amounts of water over a long period of time and greatly reduces evaporation of irr. Credit: Tim McCabe.

Kenneth Grimes (right), NRCS Soil Conservationist, Fresno County, CA, and Michael Yang (left), University of California Extension Service, Fresno, CA, survey drip irrigation installed by Hmoung farmers in raised beds to grow lettuce. [Slide 97CS2971]. Credit: Bob Nichols.

University of California Extension Service staff and Chu Yang (right), NRCS Soil Conservationist, Fresno, CA, survey drip irrigation installed in raised beds prepared to grow strawberries. [Slide 97CS2976]. Credit: Bob Nichols.

California producer, and Chu Yang (blue shirt), NRCS Soil Conservationist, Fresno, CA, discuss drip irrigation with a group of the original Hmoung farmers to the Central Valley of California. [Slide 97CS2979]. Credit: Bob Nichols.

Alaska landowner and District Conservationist Phil Naegele discuss management of a sustainable agriculture lingenberry field. Landowners uses waste from a local fish cannery as fertilizer. Also uses drip irrigation.[Slide 97CS3171]. Credit: Ron Nichols.

Land Managers set a prairie burn with drip torches to stimulate new growth and recycle nutrients. Konza Biological Research Station, Manhattan, KS. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

District Conservationist Edward Romero showing drip irrigation system on vineyards. Rio Arriba County, New Mexico. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

Michael Yang (left), University of California Extension Service and Chu Yang (right), NRCS, Soil Conservationist, Fresno, California survey drip irrigation installed in raised beds prepared to grow strawberries. Credit: USDA.

Firefighter starting to brun with a drip torch an area determined to need thinnnng by the use of fire in the northern part of NM. Credit: Danita Burns.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth

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Health

In addition, the drainage of mucus from the sphenoids or other sinuses down the back of your throat (postnasal drip) can cause you to have a sore throat. (references)

Business

Israel also has the largest market share in systems for intensive crops (sprinklers and drip systems). (references)

The micro-aspersion and drip equipment from the United States is gaining better acceptance in the Brazilian market. (references)

Drip or trickle irrigation is used in the South, especially in citrus orchards subject to late summer and autumn drought. (references)

Economic History

Mauritius

Israel is also a major supplier of irrigation equipment, particularly drip irrigation. (references)

Yemen

Demand for efficient irrigation equipment such as drip systems should increase as water prices rise. (references)

Mauritius

There are significant opportunities for sale of irrigation equipment, particularly pivot and drip systems. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "drip": be on the drip ♦ begin to drip ♦ drip box ♦ drip coffee ♦ drip feed ♦ drip mold ♦ drip mould ♦ drip of a tap ♦ drip pan ♦ drip stone ♦ drip through ♦ drip torch ♦ drip tray ♦ intravenous drip ♦ Postnasal drip ♦ right of drip ♦ saline drip. Additional references.

Beginning with "drip": drip-catcher, drip-course, drip-dried, drip-drip, drip-drip-drip, drip-dripping, drip-drop!, drip-dry, drip-drying, drip-fed, drip-feed, drip-feeding, drip-free, drip-moulding, drip-pan, drip-stone.

Ending with "drip": non-drip.

Afrikaans

drup. (various references)

Albanian

pikoj (blob, dapple, distil, distill, dribble, drizzle, drop, leak, ooze, trickle), pikim (dribble, exudation, leak, leakage, ooze), njeri pa kripë, njeri i shpëlarë, lëng që pikon, kulloj i tëri, hedh pikë-pikë (drop), e dalë (bay, extrusion, jut, lug, nib, nipple, offset, outing, overhang, projection, promontory, protuberance, shelf, torus, undershot), bie pikë-pikë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏محقنة للأوردة, ‏قطر (country, distil, dribble, drop, land, percolate, rain, region, territory, tow, towing, trail, trickle, tug), ‏غبي (asinine, dense, dick, dim witted, dull, dullard, empty headed, fathead, jerk, lacking, lunatic, moronic, opaque, patsy, plonker, sap, slow witted, soppy, stupid, thick, thick-headed, thickish, thick-witted, tomfool, twerp, uncivil, unintelligent, wooden), ‏تقطر (distil, dripping, percolate, trickle), ‏سال بتقطر, ‏سازج (rustic), ‏ساذج (artless, credulous, gaga, gimp, green, guileless, gullible, honest, ingenuous, innocent, mug, naive, ninny, oafish, pastoral, patsy, platitudinous, primitive, provincial, silly, simple, unsophisticated, untutored, unworldly), ‏سائل يحقن بالوريد, ‏سائل متقطر, ‏صوت القطرات, ‏جزء ناتئ من افريز, ‏إستقطر (extract). (various references)

Bulgarian 

шум от капки, капя (distil, dribble, drop, drop in, gutter, leak, ooze, run, seep, weep), капка (bead, dollop, dribble, dribblet, drop, minim, modicum, shred, tear, tincture, vestige), капене (dribble, trickle), пускам капка по капка, изпълнен съм (swim). (various references)

Catalan

gota (drop). (various references)

Chinese 

瀝 , 淌 (to shed), 滴水, 滴下 . (various references)

Czech

odkapávat, moula (goon, mug, zombie), kapka (bead, blob, dab, dash, dribblet, drop), kapat (dribble, drop, leak, trickle), kapání (dripping), infúze, baèkora (wet). (various references)

Danish

dryp, drop (continuous drip infusion), dråbefanger (dip trap, drip pot, drip trap), spildebakke (dip trap, drip pot, drip trap), saft (juice, sap), nettonedbør (throughfall). (various references)

Dutch

druppelen (dripping), druipen, droppelen. (various references)

Esperanto

guto (drop), guti. (various references)

Faeroese

dropi (drop). (various references)

Farsi 

چکیدن (Drop, Lave, Plash, Trickle), چکه کردن (Plash, Seep), چکه (Drop, Leak, Leakage, Seep, Seepage, Sprinkle, Trickle), چکانیدن (Dribble, Trickle). (various references)

Finnish

tiputus (medicine dropper), tippua (drop), pisaroida (sprinkle), nestesulku (dip trap, drip pot, drip trap), metsikkösadanta (throughfall), lauhteenkeräin (dip trap, drip pot, drip trap), infuusiopumppu (infusion pump), infuusio (infusion). (various references)

French

goutte-à-goutte (continuous drip infusion, continuous intravenous drip infusion, drip-feeding), goutte (dram, drop, drop of water, dropping). (various references)

German

tropfen (bead, dab, drop, drops, leak, run, seep, speck, splash, to drop, to trickle), Tropf (ninny, rascal, rogue), triefen (be dripping wet, ooze, run, water), tröpfeln (dribble, dripping, run, to dribble, to drip, to trickle, trickle), sickern (leak out, ooze, seep, to drip, to trickle, trickle). (various references)

Greek 

στάζω (burst, dribble, drop, leak, ooze, seep, trickle, trill). (various references)

Hebrew 

לזלוג (flow, pour, stream, trickle, water), לזוב (pour, spout), להרעיף (drop, impart, shed, shower), לדלוף (leak, ooze, trickle), לטפטף (ooze, spit, spot), לנזול (flow, leak), לנטוף (drop, exude, flow, rosin, seep), לנטף (drop), טמבל (blockhead, bone head, boob, dunce, moron), טפטוף (dribble, dripping, perfusion). (various references)

Hungarian

csöpögés (dripping, dropping, spatter, splatter, weeping). (various references)

Indonesian

menderaikan, menderai-deraikan, bertitik, berderai. (various references)

Italian

goccia (bead, blob, dash, dribble, drop, particle, tear), fleboclisi (phleboclysis). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

滴下 (distill, drop). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ポタリと (fall drop by drop), しずく (drop), てきか (distill, drop, thinning out superfluous fruit). (various references)

Korean 

드립. (various references)

Manx

faarney (dripping, drop, Ferns, get in, leak, leakage), drigey (distil, distillation, drop, leak), drig (drop), cur er sheeley. (various references)

Maya

thaah (to drip). (various references)

Norwegian

dryppe, drypp, dråpe. (various references)

Pig Latin

ipdray.(various references)

Portuguese

gotejamento (dripping), gota (arthritis, bead, blob, dribble, drop, drop of water, droplet, minim, podagra, tear, trickle). (various references)

Romanian

zgomot produs de cãderea picãturii, se scurge picãturã cu picãturã, se prelinge (ooze, seep, trickle), picurare (dripping), picãturã (dripping, drop, ounce, speck, splash, sprinkle, sup), pica (drop, drop in, fall, flunk, pop in, spin), curge (course, elapse, flow, fly, glide, hang, not to hold water, pour, rain, run, start, stream, suppurate), şiroi (flow, torrent). (various references)

Russian 

капать (drop). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

dosadna osoba (pest, sickener), kapati (leak), kapanje (dripping), curiti (dribble, leak, ooze, seep, trickle, water), curenje (leak, leakage, ooze, seepage, trickle). (various references)

Spanish

gotear (dribble, drop, leak, leak in, Pearl, tax, trickle), gota (arthritis, bead, blob, dab, dew, drop, gout, spot), gota a gota (continuous drip infusion). (various references)

Swedish

drypa (dribble, drop, trickle), droppe (blob, dribble, drop, droplet, globule, nip, spot), droppa (distil, dribble, drop, ooze, run, splash, trickle, weep), dropp (dripping). (various references)

Thai

ทำให้หยด, หยดน้ำ (drop). (various references)

Turkish

damlayan şey (dripping), damlamak (blow in, come in suddenly, dribble, drop, drop around, drop in, fall off, happen in, trickle, weep), damlama (dripping, guttation, trickle), damlalıkla sıvı verme, damlalık (dosimeter, dropper, stactometer), damla damla akmak (trickle), sevimsiz tip (aversion, slob), sızdırmak (chisel, drag out, effuse, exude, leak, leak out, ooze, percolate, suck, take in, transpire, wheedle smth. out of smb., work), akıtmak (disembogue, drain, drain away, drain off, funnel, pour, shed, spill, stream, trickle, weep). (various references)

Turkmen 

dammak, damjalamak, sarkmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

шум падаючих крапель, крапати (drop, rain, weep), крапання (dripping), капель, виливати (cast, effuse, empty, outpour, pour out, spout). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự chảy nhỏ giọt (dripping), người khó chịu (pig). (various references)

Welsh

diferu (distil, dribble, drop), defnynnu (distill, dribble, drop), defni (trickle). (various references)

�ur. (various references)

arorites, destillare, destillavit, distillans, distillantia, distillaverunt, lacrimo, perstillabit, perstillantia, rorate, rorem, stilla, stillabis, stillabit, stillabo, stillabunt, stillae, stillam, stillans, stillantia, stillaret, stillas, stillat, stillatur, stillaverunt, stillavit. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "drip": dripless, dripped, dripper, drippers, drippier, drippiest, dripping, drippings, drippy, drips, dripstone, dripstones, dript. (additional references)

Words containing "drip": quadripartite, quadriphonic, quadriphonics, quadriplegia, quadriplegias, quadriplegic, quadriplegics. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Drip" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: daip, Dfi, diph, dipi, dipp, dirf, dirp, dirw, diup, drap, dreap, drep, dri, dria, drid, Drie, drif, drig, Drii, drij, dril, drim, drin, driop, dripe, dris, drit, driv, driw, drix, driy, driz, dropp, druil, drup, Dwipa, dxi, hrip, krip, rdp, rrip. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dip, rid, rip.

-2 letters: id, pi.

+1 letter: drips, dript, padri, pardi, pride, pried, rapid, redip, riped.

+2 letters: diaper, diapir, dipper, dopier, drippy, griped, paired, pardie, perdie, period, pinder, priced, prided, prides, primed, prised, prized, putrid, rapids, redips, redipt, repaid, ripped, sparid, spider, spired, torpid, trepid, tripod, upgird.

+3 letters: airdrop, aspired, chirped, crimped, crisped, demirep, deprive, despair, diapers, diapirs, digraph, dimorph, diopter, dioptre, dipolar, dippers, dippier, diptera, dispart, disport, disrupt, draping, dripped, dripper, dumpier, epiderm, expired, gripped, hirpled, impeder, leporid, padroni, pagurid, pardine, parodic, parodoi, parotid, parried, partied, peracid, percoid, perfidy, peridia, peridot, periled, periods, peroxid, picador, piddler, pierced, pinders, pirated, podgier, poniard, praised, prebind, predial, predict, predive, preedit, prepaid, preside, pricked, priding, prigged, prilled, primmed, primped, prinked, printed, prissed, prodigy, proteid, provide, prudish, pudgier, pyralid, pyramid, pyridic, raphide, rapider, rapidly, repined, replied, rimpled, ripcord, ripened, rippled, riptide, sparids, sparoid, speired, spiders, spidery, spiered, spiroid, spirted, sporoid, striped, syrphid, tiderip, torpids, tripled, tripods, tripody, tripped, umpired, upbraid, updried, updries, upgirds.