drip
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive)To fall one drop at a time.
Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad!
- 2.
(intransitive)To leak slowly.
Does the sink drip, or have I just spilt water over the floor?
- 3.
(transitive)To let fall in drops.
After putting oil on the side of the salad, the chef should drip a little vinegar in the oil.
My broken pen dripped ink onto the table.
c. 1726, Alexander Pope (probable author), The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain.
- 4.
(intransitive, usually)(intransitive, usually with with) To have a superabundance of (something).
The Old Hall simply drips with masterpieces of the Flemish painters.
The duchess was dripping with jewels.
- 5.
(impersonal)(impersonal, of the weather) To rain lightly; to drizzle.
The weather isn't so bad. I mean, it's dripping, but you're not going to get so wet.
- 6.
(intransitive)To be wet, to be soaked.
- 7.
(UK, intransitive, slang)(UK, naval slang, intransitive) To whine or complain consistently; to grumble.
- 8.
(slang, stative)Be impressive or attractive.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)A drop of a liquid.
I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.
I need a bucket to catch the drips.
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
- 3.
(countable, uncountable)(medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.
He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip.
- 4.
(colloquial, countable, derogatory, uncountable)A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!
- 5.
(countable, uncountable)(architecture) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member that projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.
- 6.
(slang, uncountable)Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing.
His drip is looking fine, especially the Supreme t-shirt.
Hailey decided to show off her drip with a soft, white fluff jacket […]
- 7.
(alt of)(finance) Alternative letter-case form of DRIP (“dividend reinvestment plan”)
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From Middle English drippen, druppen, from Old English drypan, from Proto-Germanic *drupjaną (to fall in drops, drip), from Proto-Germanic *drupô (drop). Akin to drippe, druipen, druppelen (to drip), drüppen, tropfen, tröpfeln (to drip), dryppe, drypa.