Crossword clues for drizzle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ling \Ling\ (l[i^]ng), n. [OE. lenge; akin to D. leng, G. l["a]nge, Dan. lange, Sw. l[*a]nga, Icel. langa. So named from its being long. See Long, a.] (Zo["o]l.)
A large, marine, gadoid fish ( Molva vulgaris) of Northern Europe and Greenland. It is valued as a food fish and is largely salted and dried. Called also drizzle.
The burbot of Lake Ontario.
An American hake of the genus Phycis. [Canada]
A New Zealand food fish of the genus Genypterus. The name is also locally applied to other fishes, as the cultus cod, the mutton fish, and the cobia.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, perhaps an alteration of drysning "a falling of dew" (c.1400), from Old English -drysnian, related to dreosan "to fall," from PIE root *dhreu- (see drip (v.)). Or perhaps a frequentative of Middle English dresen "to fall," from Old English dreosan. Related: Drizzled; drizzling. As a noun, from 1550s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Light rain. 2 (context physics weather English). Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground. It is sometimes accompanied by low visibility and fog. 3 (context slang English) Water. 4 A cake onto which icing, honey or syrup has been drizzled in an artistic manner. vb. 1 (context ambitransitive English) To rain lightly; to shed slowly in minute drops or particles. 2 (context cooking English) To pour slowly and evenly, especially with oil or honey in cooking. 3 (context slang English) To urinate.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Drizzle is a light liquid precipitation consisting of liquid water drops smaller than those of rain – generally smaller than in diameter. Drizzle is normally produced by low stratiform clouds and stratocumulus clouds. Precipitation rates from drizzle are on the order of a millimetre per day or less at the ground. Owing to the small size of drizzle drops, under many circumstances drizzle largely evaporates before reaching the surface and so may be undetected by observers on the ground. The METAR code for drizzle is DZ.
Drizzle is a light liquid precipitation.
Drizzle may also refer to:
- Drizzle (image processing), a digital image processing method
- Drizzle (database server), a database management system
Drizzle (or DRIZZLE) is a digital image processing method for the linear reconstruction of undersampled images. It is normally used for the combination of astronomical images and was originally developed for the Hubble Deep Field observations made by the Hubble Space Telescope. The algorithm, known as Variable-Pixel Linear Reconstruction, or informally as "Drizzle," preserves photometry and resolution, can weight input images according to the statistical significance of each pixel, and removes the effects of geometric distortion on both image shape and photometry. In addition, it is possible to use drizzling to combine dithered images in the presence of cosmic rays.
According to astrophotographer David Ratledge, "Results using the DRIZZLE command can be spectacular with amateur instruments."
Drizzle is a free software/ open source relational database management system (DBMS) that was forked from the now-defunct 6.0 development branch of the MySQL DBMS.
Like MySQL, Drizzle has a client/server architecture and uses SQL as its primary command language. Drizzle is distributed under version 2 and 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPL) with portions, including the protocol drivers and replication messaging under the BSD license.
Early work on the fork was done mid-2008 by Brian Aker. Ongoing development is handled by a team of contributors that includes staff members from Canonical Ltd., Google, Six Apart, Sun Microsystems, Rackspace, Data Differential, Blue Gecko, Intel, Percona, Hewlett-Packard, Red Hat, and others. Drizzle source code, along with instructions on compiling it, are available via the project's Launchpad website.
In October 2010, Drizzle had 13,478 total contributions, 96 total contributors, and 37 active contributors. It was also announced that Drizzle had entered Beta,. The first GA version was released in March 2011. Drizzle has actively participated in the Google Summer of Code Project since 2010.
Usage examples of "drizzle".
Mid-morning, Andi drove through an off-and-on drizzle to keep appointments with Alison Simpson and William Tyson.
They made their way in the drizzle, through the greasy, slippery streets ashine with the lights that fell from door and window, Rabecque following closely with the horses.
I drizzled honey on a piece of the leathery flatbread and rolled it around a little white cheese, cramming my mouth full while she was busy talking.
The weather changed during the night, and the wind went up into the southeast bringing with it the thin cold drizzling guti rain.
And albeit there was little comfort marching through the drizzling murk of night towards that fortress of evil name, yet was Lord Juss glad at the rain, since it favoured surprise, and on surprise hung all their hopes.
A woman wearing a white headcloth was selling piles of the laciest pancakes Sabin had ever seen with some kind of honey syrup drizzled over them.
Corbett or anyone else should be abroad, for it was a drizzling cold November night, and the streets were muddy, as only Winnipeg streets in the old days could be--none of your light-minded, fickle-hearted, changeable mud that is mud to-day and dust to-morrow, but the genuine, original, brush-defying, soap-and-water-proof, north star, burr mud, blacker than lampblack, stickier than glue!
Each of the black blocks was five thousand or more men, clustering right now under ground sheets out in the drizzle, perspiring from heat and nerves, not a one of them with the vantage point of Luis, who looked down on the sheer weight of the red blocks across from their force, the Reds packed in, waiting, ready.
Lamancha saw through the drizzle three stags moving at a gentle trot to the south--up-wind, for in the corrie the eddies were coming oddly.
He had shown his admiration for her artistic prowess by making love to her at the base of this very fountain, beneath the midnight blue sky of a varsha night, as a gentle drizzle fell on their undulating bodies.
It was planting time and the Walpi celebrated their rain-feast but they brought only a mere misty drizzle.
It was a little wanner than it had been and although it drizzled the wind was almost gentle.
He reached and activated a dozen pressure pads, cutting the light and glare, and then he shook his control pistol at the monitors and in a drizzle of light blobs eight or ten of the screens came on.
He set off with a spring, and in a moment was flying through the air, almost out of the door of the shed, the upper half of which was open, showing outside the drizzling rain, the filthy yard, the cattle standing disconsolate against the black cartshed, and at the back of all the grey-green wall of the wood.
They had shed their chain-mail hauberks and quilted gambesons, and even their shirtsbare to the waist and seemingly immune to the cold drizzle and icy winds.