Definizione monolingua

drip

drip (third-person singular simple present drips, present participle dripping, simple past and past participle dripped)

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 put a small amount of a liquid on something, drop by drop.

   After putting oil on the side of the salad, the chef should drip a little vinegar in the oil.

4. (usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.

   The Old Hall simply drips with masterpieces of the Flemish painters.

   The duchess was dripping with jewels.

drip (plural drips)

1. A drop of a liquid.

   I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.

2. (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that releases drugs into a patients bloodstream (an intravenous drip).

   Hes not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip.

3. (colloquial) A limp, ineffectual, boring or otherwise uninteresting person.

   He couldnt even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!

Definizione dizionario drip

goccia

colare

filtrare

gocciolamento

gocciolare

grondare

lacrima

scolare

sgocciolare

stillare

stillicidio

Altri significati:

to leak slowly

(usually with '''with''' ) To have a superabundance of valuable things.

a drop of a liquid

(intransitive) To fall one drop at a time.

a boring or otherwise uninteresting person

drop (of water)

(colloquial) A limp, ineffectual, boring or otherwise uninteresting person.

(transitive) To put a small amount of a liquid on something, drop by drop.

(to) drip

(medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream (an intravenous drip).

to put a small amount of a liquid on something, drop by drop

A drop of a liquid.

an apparatus that slowly releases a liquid

(intransitive) To leak slowly.

to fall one drop at a time