Dictionary Definition
drip
Noun
1 flowing in drops; the formation and falling of
drops of liquid; "there's a drip through the roof" [syn: trickle, dribble]
2 the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop;
"the constant sound of dripping irritated him" [syn: dripping]
3 (architecture) a projection from a cornice or
sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a
window or doorway) [syn: drip mold,
drip
mould]
Verb
1 fall in drops; "Water is dripping from the
faucet"
2 let or cause to fall in drops; "dribble oil
into the mixture" [syn: dribble, drop] [also: dripping, dripped]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɪp
Verb
Translations
to put a small amount of a liquid on something,
drop by drop
Noun
- A drop of a liquid.
- I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.
- An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that
releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream (an intravenous
drip).
- He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip.
- A limp, ineffectual, boring or otherwise uninteresting person.
- He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!
- finance informal Dividend Reinvestment Program; a type of financial investing
Translations
a boring or otherwise uninteresting person
- Finnish: tylsimys
- German: Einfaltspinsel
Dividend Reinvestment Program
- Finnish: tylsimys
Extensive Definition
Drip may refer to:
- Drip irrigation, in agriculture and gardening
- Intravenous therapy, in healthcare
- Drip painting, a method of dripping paint across a canvas, in art
- 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
- Drip, the sin of Lust, a character in Jack (webcomic).
- Drip, a Filipino trip hop band
- "Drips", a song by Eminem and Obie Trice from the album The Eminem Show.
DRIP may refer to:
- Dividend reinvestment program, in finance
- DRIP, an alternate name for the Mesomycetozoea in protozoology
- DRIP, one of the MARID protocol proposals in computing
- DRIP, Differenciate Reminder Inform Persuade, in marketing
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
balderdash, baloney, boob, bore, bull, bunk, bushwa, buttonholer, chump, clod, condensation, condense, crashing bore,
damper, distill, distillation, dolt, dope, drag, dribble, dripping, drippings, dripple, drivel, drizzle, drop, dryasdust, dullard, dusty, exude, filter, flat tire, frightful
bore, goon, gurgle, gush, headache, humdrum, killjoy, leach, leaching, leak, leak out, leakage, leaking, lixiviate, lixiviation, milksop, moron, nuisance, ooze, percolate, percolation, pest, pill, pour, proser, seep, seepage, seeping, simpleton, sluice, spatter, sprinkle, spurtle, stream, sweat, sweating, trickle, tricklet, trill, twaddle, twaddler, weed, weep, wet, wet
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