Meaning

6 senses
  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.

    the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop

  2. (countable, uncountable)A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.

    flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid

  3. (countable, uncountable)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.

    Tropf

    ка́пельницаkápelʹnica

    кра́пельницяkrápelʹnycja

  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!

    Einfaltspinsel

    занудаzanuda

  5. (countable, uncountable)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.

    (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway)

  6. (slang, uncountable)Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing.

    His drip is looking fine, especially the Supreme t-shirt.

Examples

92 sentences
  1. Sweat is dripping from his face.

    ruС его лица капает пот. — odexed

  2. I can hear water dripping somewhere.

  3. Water is dripping from the wet towel.

    ruВода капает с мокрого полотенца. — Biga

  4. The faucet in the kitchen is dripping.

  5. It sounds like the faucet is dripping.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
an apparatus that slowly releases a liquid:
Русский
By meaning 2
an apparatus that slowly releases a liquid:
an ineffectual or uninteresting person:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
an apparatus that slowly releases a liquid:
an ineffectual or uninteresting person:

Origin

From Middle English drippe, from the verb (see above). Compare West Frisian drip (“drip”),

From Middle English drippe, from the verb (see above). Compare West Frisian drip (“drip”), Dutch drup (“drip”), Danish dryp (“drip”).

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Forms

plural: drips
Singulardrip
Pluraldrips

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway):drip molddrip mould
  • the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop:dripping
  • flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid:trickledribble

Word family

18 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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