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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
drip
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dripping tap
▪ I could hear a dripping tap.
a tap is dripping (=drops of water are coming out of it)
▪ If the tap is dripping, change the washer.
be dripping with sweat
▪ After two hours' climbing, their bodies were dripping with sweat.
dripping wet (=so wet that water is dripping off)
▪ She was dripping wet.
dripping with gold (=wearing a lot of gold)
▪ She came to the party dripping with gold.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
down
▪ The two of them looked at it, as blood dripped down on the cold linoleum.
▪ The plant it was made from sprang up first when Prometheus' blood dripped down upon the earth.
▪ The paint was still wet and dripping down.
▪ He stood now with the sponge dripping down his side.
▪ There, dripping down the wall ...?
▪ Blue flames were running up and down the wires, and blobs of melted plastic insulation were dripping down.
▪ The rain dripped down his neck.
▪ They have mud in their eyes, on their stomachs, dripping down their thighs.
off
▪ The rain dripped off his hat.
▪ The rain poured down, soaking their hair, seeping into their collars, dripping off their chins as they kissed.
▪ Water dripped off her hands, too, and her severe black bathing dress.
on
▪ Water dripped on to the towel, and the cold wet flannel soothed the ache.
▪ Droplets of blood ran over his fingers and dripped on to the floor.
▪ Beads of sweat continued to form and drip on to the table.
▪ Each is protected by a layer of zinc, which drips on to the ground when it rains.
■ NOUN
blood
▪ The two of them looked at it, as blood dripped down on the cold linoleum.
▪ The man did as he was told, the blood dripping on the paper.
▪ The plant it was made from sprang up first when Prometheus' blood dripped down upon the earth.
▪ Peter spread his knees and allowed the blood to drip between his legs and stain the stair carpet.
▪ My blood dripped on the ring floor and turned instantly black, merging with the modern art collage of other stains.
▪ In one, blood was seen dripping through the ceiling from a murder victim on to another woman.
▪ I pressed harder and felt the knife puncturing something inside me; hot blood began to drip between my legs.
rain
▪ The rain dripped off his hat.
▪ As Hostetler spoke, rain was dripping out of the ceiling.
▪ The rain dripped down his neck.
sweat
▪ Behind the long black sweep of counter Sergeant Camb sat fanning himself with a newspaper, the sweat dripping down his forehead.
▪ Dark stains grew up from my waist, and I could feel sweat dripping around my concealed derringer.
water
▪ For new floorboards in the hall in a corner where water had dripped from a leaky pipe.
▪ Firehoses snaked through the lobby and up the stairs to the balcony, and water dripped through the ceiling.
▪ Thérèse held it for her, burning her fingers even as the icy water dripped over them.
▪ And yet inside, despite the saturated carpet and water still dripping from the ceiling, business was proceeding.
▪ The water dripped steadily from his anorak to make a puddle on the floor.
▪ Where the water dripped on to my dirt floor, I scraped a trench with my pocket knife to let it drain out.
▪ A row of darker rectangles indicated smaller cells along one side. Water dripped somewhere.
▪ You can hear the sound of water dripping in the pail and the sound of the washcloth on skin.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The blood was still dripping from the cut on his lip.
▪ The faucet's dripping again - you'd better call the plumber.
▪ Wax from the candle dripped on the tablecloth.
▪ We stood under a tree, with rain dripping onto our heads.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He ignored the icicles too, a whole row of glistening two-and three-footers dripping from a pipe.
▪ Sweat dripped down the sides of his head and chest.
▪ Thérèse held it for her, burning her fingers even as the icy water dripped over them.
▪ The rain dripped down his neck.
▪ The two of them looked at it, as blood dripped down on the cold linoleum.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
catch
▪ The children are fighting under the tank, catching drips like diamonds in their grubby hands.
▪ Set pie on upper oven rack and put a baking sheet on shelf below to catch any drips.
▪ Then use anything - mugs - egg-cups - put them on a tray to catch the drips.
▪ Place the muffin pan on a baking sheet to catch the drips.
▪ Put a baking sheet under the muffin pan to catch the drips.
put
▪ She was put on an intravenous drip in a treatment room and left alone with Allitt.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Before painting, lay a cloth on the floor to catch any drips.
▪ Everything was quiet except for the drip of rain from the roof.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A drip to be adjusted here, a vein to be found there, the floor to be constantly scrubbed.
▪ A steady drip of blood was forming a pool on the floor.
▪ As I settled the man on to a pallet and helped the Sister fasten the glucose drip, I felt less uncomfortable.
▪ Place the muffin pan on a baking sheet to catch the drips.
▪ The dead silence was broken only by a regular drip, drip, drip.
▪ The man with the bright eyes needed a saline drip.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drip

Drip \Drip\, v. t. To let fall in drops.

Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain.
--Swift.

Drip

Drip \Drip\, n.

  1. A falling or letting fall in drops; a dripping; that which drips, or falls in drops.

    The light drip of the suspended oar.
    --Byron.

  2. (Arch.) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and is of such section as to throw off the rain water.

    Right of drip (Law), an easement or servitude by which a man has the right to have the water flowing from his house fall on the land of his neighbor.

Drip

Drip \Drip\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drippedor Dript; p. pr. & vb. n. Dripping.] [Akin to LG. drippen, Dan. dryppe, from a noun. See Drop.]

  1. To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves.

  2. To let fall drops of moisture or liquid; as, a wet garment drips.

    The dark round of the dripping wheel.
    --Tennyson.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
drip

mid-15c., from drip (v.). The slang meaning "stupid, feeble, or dull person" is first recorded 1932, perhaps from earlier American English slang sense "nonsense" (1919).

drip

c.1300, perhaps from Middle Danish drippe, from Proto-Germanic *drup- (cognates: Dutch druipen, German triefen), from PIE root *dhreu-. Related to droop and drop. Old English had cognate drypan "to let drop," dropian "fall in drops," and dreopan "to drop." Related: Dripped; dripping.

Wiktionary
drip

acr. (context finance English) dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing n. 1 A drop of a liquid. 2 (context medicine English) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream (an intravenous drip). 3 (context colloquial English) A limp, ineffectual, boring or otherwise uninteresting person. 4 A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping. 5 (context architecture English) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To fall one drop at a time. 2 (context intransitive English) To leak slowly. 3 (context transitive English) To let fall in drops.

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WordNet
drip

  1. n. 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]

  4. [also: dripping, dripped]

drip

  1. v. 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]

  3. [also: dripping, dripped]

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Wikipedia
DRIP

DRIP may refer to:

  • DRiP, Dividend reinvestment plan, in finance
  • DRIP, an alternate name for the Mesomycetozoea in protozoology
  • 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
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Usage examples of "drip".

Water dripped from the trees in the alameda and the crepe hung in soggy strings.

Colonel, fix a cloth over his nose and attempt to regulate the flow of the anesthetic from the bottle into a very slow drip.

Those glistening, dripping fangs were an inch from his legs when he squeezed the trigger, the rifle recoiling into his shoulder as the heavy slug tore through the arachnid and it stopped dead.

All around and above them, wet and dripping, the walls were encrusted with aragonite crystals that glittered as Le Cagot moved the flare back and forth.

The forest was dominated by plants that could extract moisture from the air: Lichen coated the gnarled bark of the araucaria trees, and even the low magnolia shrubs dripped with moss.

And her copper bangles had turned greenish from rust and all the water that dripped in from our roof.

Jonathan was walking sedately to the post-office, holding his dripping umbrella at a wonderful slant of exactness, without regard to the wind, thereby getting the soft drive of the rain full in his face, which became, as it were, bedewed with tears, entirely outside any cause of his own emotions.

Sir Gervas rode at the head of his musqueteers, whose befloured tails hung limp and lank with the water dripping from them.

The wet tresses dripped down her shoulders to curl bewitchingly over her breasts.

She was banking on the zoned and shut off his IV drip of blockers without a twinge of remorse.

Mevrouw Blom had just returned from a shopping expedition the sight of her, dripping water from a plastic mac, and with wisps of damp hair hanging forlornly from her headscarf, was almost more than Augusta could bear.

The rain drummed on what there was of the roof of their haramlek, and dripped down and pooled in the makeshift awnings, which burst in bucketloads down your neck if you bumped into them, and the mist drifted in at every direction through the paneless windows, and the mountains, most of the time, seemed to consist of cloud, or to have vanished entirely.

The rain drummed on what there was of the roof of their haramlek, and dripped down and pooled in the makeshift awnings, which burst in bucketloads down your neck if you bumped into them, and the mist drifted in from every direction through the paneless windows, and the mountains, most of the time, seemed to consist of cloud, or to have vanished entirely.

Now Burdon was studying her lying there in her hospital gown, sheet up to her chest, something dripping from the IV into her arm.

There was a Struggle, a screaming, a mule rolled over, a wounded man sprang up in a cacolet with a spear through him, and then through the narrow gap surged a stream of naked savages, mad with battle, drunk with slaughter, spotted and splashed with blood--blood dripping from their spears, their arms, their faces.