Meaning of "drip" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DRIP

Old English dryppan, from dropadrop.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF DRIP

drip  [drɪp]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DRIP

Drip is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb drip in English.

WHAT DOES DRIP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Drip

Drip may refer to: ▪ Dripping liquid ▪ Intravenous therapy, in health and medicine ▪ Murphy drip, in proctoclysis ▪ Drip gas, natural gas condensate ▪ Drip irrigation, in agriculture and gardening ▪ Drip painting, an art style of dripping paint across a canvas ▪ Drip email, the process of automatically sending planned, scheduled emails to contacts or prospects ▪ Drip, an old-fashioned mild pejorative for someone exceptionally eccentric or lacking in social skills ▪ Post-nasal drip, excessive mucus produced by the sinuses ▪ Fluid descending from the nose cavity into the throat, for example after cocaine insufflation ▪ Lithospheric drip, in geology...

Definition of drip in the English dictionary

The first definition of drip in the dictionary is to fall or let fall in drops. Other definition of drip is the formation and falling of drops of liquid. Drip is also the sound made by falling drops.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DRIP

PRESENT

Present

I drip

you drip

he/she/it drips

we drip

you drip

they drip

Present continuous

I am dripping

you are dripping

he/she/it is dripping

we are dripping

you are dripping

they are dripping

Present perfect

I have dripped

you have dripped

he/she/it has dripped

we have dripped

you have dripped

they have dripped

Present perfect continuous

I have been dripping

you have been dripping

he/she/it has been dripping

we have been dripping

you have been dripping

they have been dripping

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I dripped

you dripped

he/she/it dripped

we dripped

you dripped

they dripped

Past continuous

I was dripping

you were dripping

he/she/it was dripping

we were dripping

you were dripping

they were dripping

Past perfect

I had dripped

you had dripped

he/she/it had dripped

we had dripped

you had dripped

they had dripped

Past perfect continuous

I had been dripping

you had been dripping

he/she/it had been dripping

we had been dripping

you had been dripping

they had been dripping

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will drip

you will drip

he/she/it will drip

we will drip

you will drip

they will drip

Future continuous

I will be dripping

you will be dripping

he/she/it will be dripping

we will be dripping

you will be dripping

they will be dripping

Future perfect

I will have dripped

you will have dripped

he/she/it will have dripped

we will have dripped

you will have dripped

they will have dripped

Future perfect continuous

I will have been dripping

you will have been dripping

he/she/it will have been dripping

we will have been dripping

you will have been dripping

they will have been dripping

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would drip

you would drip

he/she/it would drip

we would drip

you would drip

they would drip

Conditional continuous

I would be dripping

you would be dripping

he/she/it would be dripping

we would be dripping

you would be dripping

they would be dripping

Conditional perfect

I would have drip

you would have drip

he/she/it would have drip

we would have drip

you would have drip

they would have drip

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been dripping

you would have been dripping

he/she/it would have been dripping

we would have been dripping

you would have been dripping

they would have been dripping

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you drip
we let´s drip
you drip

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to drip

Past participle

dripped

Present Participle

dripping

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «DRIP»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «drip» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of drip

bead · dribble · driblet · drizzle · drop · droplet · exude · globule · milksop · namby-pamby · ninny · pearl · plop · pussycat · softie · splash · sprinkle · trickle · weakling · weed · wet

TRANSLATION OF DRIP

Find out the translation of drip to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of drip from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «drip» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 滴液
• Translator English - Spanish: gota
• English: drip
• Translator English - Hindi: ड्रिप
• Translator English - Arabic: قَطْرَة
• Translator English - Russian: капля
• Translator English - Portuguese: pingo
• Translator English - Bengali: ক্ষরা
• Translator English - French: goutte
• Translator English - Malay: Titisan
• Translator English - German: Tropfen
• Translator English - Japanese: したたり
• Translator English - Korean: 물방울
• Translator English - Javanese: Netes
• Translator English - Vietnamese: nhỏ giọt
• Translator English - Tamil: சொட்டுநீர்
• Translator English - Marathi: ठिबक
• Translator English - Turkish: damlama
• Translator English - Italian: goccia
• Translator English - Polish: kropla
• Translator English - Ukrainian: крапля
• Translator English - Romanian: picătură
• Translator English - Greek: στάξιμο
• Translator English - Afrikaans: drip
• Translator English - Swedish: dropp
• Translator English - Norwegian: drypping

9 QUOTES WITH «DRIP»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word drip.

1

Kevin Dillon

I have great tenants. They've all become my friends. They call me and say, 'Hey Kev, we've got a drip!'

2

Paul Engle

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.

3

John Hutton

If we took Chaucer's writings at face value, we'd have to conclude he was a complete drip.

4

Mike Leigh

There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.

5

Rigoberta Menchu

I am like a drop of water on a rock. After drip, drip, dripping in the same place, I begin to leave a mark, and I leave my mark in many people's hearts.

6

Jerry Saltz

Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.

7

Janet Suzman

It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight.

8

Karen Traviss

My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.

9

David Warner

Americans who have travelled and who have English friends know we are not necessarily all baddies, but I think that seeing us being so incessantly nasty on screen has a drip, drip, drip effect on the rest of them.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DRIP»

Discover the use of drip in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to drip and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Management of Drip/Trickle or Micro Irrigation

Management of Drip/Trickle or Micro Irrigation includes the basic considerations relating to soil-water-plant interactions, with topics such as methods for soil moisture measurement; evapotranspiration; irrigation systems; tensiometer use ...

Megh R. Goyal, 2012

Drip, Drop

Rain, Rain Go Away It's raining, and Pip Squeak's roof is leaking. He tries to catch the water with pots, pans, cups, and cans -- he even tries using a shoe! But the drips and the drops just won't stop. What will Pip Squeak do?

Sarah Weeks, 2002

All about sprinklers & drip systems

- Expert advice on how to grow a lush, green lawn through proper watering with less fuss, less water, and less money.

Ortho, Ortho Books, 2006

It all began with a drip, drip, drip ...

Through a series of accidents the cowardly potter becomes known as the bravest man in the Rajah's kingdom.

Joan M. Lexau, 1970

Drip irrigation

This book bridges the gap between users of drip irrigation systems & soil physicists, agronomists, horticulturists, hydraulic engineers, designers & manufacturers.

S. Dasberg, Dani Or, 1999

Henke's Med-Math: Dosage Calculation, Preparation and ...

... tubing, 50 mL/hr = 50 gtt/min, the nurse sets the rate. (Instructions for calculating IV drip rates appear in the next section.) Your goal is to deliver the amount of fluid ordered, in the time ordered, and with a drip rate that is continuous and even.

Susan Buchholz, Grace Henke, 2008

Drip Irrigation in the Home Landscape

the drip tubing as well as the flow rate in the tubing. For the average home landscape drip system, you can most likely place at least 200 1-gph emitters on the drip tubing. It is not recommended that the drip tubing be more than 400 feet long.

L Schwankl, T Prichard, 1999

Protected Agriculture: A Global Review

From the sub- main, the irrigation water flows to the drip lines, which can be either a polyethylene drip hose with inline emitters or drip tube/tape. DRIP EMITTERS AND TAPE/TUBE There are many types of drip emitters. In the United States ...

Merle H. Jensen, Alan J. Malter, 1995

Drip and microirrigation for trees, vines, and row crops ...

This book contains previously unpublished & practical design & management information on all forms of drip & microirrigation for agricultural crops.

Charles Burt, Stuart W. Styles, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Irrigation Training and Research Center, 1994

Simplified Irrigation Design

Once vou have determined where your emitters need to go and you have completed a preliminary pipe layout, you need to calculate your pressure loss in the length of drip tube for each circuit. We compute this pressure loss so that we can ...

Pete Melby, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DRIP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term drip is used in the context of the following news items.

Take A Drip Down Memory Lane With Game Freak's Second Game …

Game Freak may be most famous for the Pokémon series, but the company's history goes back a little further than that. Back when the firm was ... «Nintendo Life, Jul 15»

Drip drip little July shower

A truck splashes through a puddle behind the Stephens County Courthouse after Tuesday's rain. Duncan received 1.69 inches of rain Tuesday. «Duncan Banner, Jul 15»

Neither gloves nor saline drip, patients given just half a dose

Hindu Rao Hospital's gynaecological emergency gets an average 60-70 cases a day, going up to 100. Its main emergency usually has 300 ... «The Indian Express, Jul 15»

Find your Daily Brew at Downtown Olympia's Drip Espresso Bar

Drip Espresso is proud to be women-owned and operated. The management team includes (from left) co-owner Maria Meconi, manager Tiffany ... «ThurstonTalk, Jul 15»

Round Turn Distilling Launches in Biddeford, Drip Bar Drops in …

BRIDGTON — There's a new coffee shop in town: drip bar is serving Tandem Coffee Roasters, according to an Instagram post from last week. «Eater, Jul 15»

First Drip (7/6/15): Four people, including assistant county manager …

First Drip (7/6/15): Four people, including assistant county manager, found dead in York County. Posted By Ryan Pitkin on Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at ... «CL Charlotte, Jul 15»

Shocking photo shows intravenous drip hung from light fitting in …

This shocking picture shows an intravenous drip hung from a light fitting inside a surgical ward at the Royal Liverpool Hospital. The image was ... «Liverpool Echo, Jul 15»

Craving the IV drip of motivation

Then there's the other kind - what I call the IV drip of motivation. This is the kind that you need to administer and savour, drop after drop, when ... «Times Colonist, Jul 15»

The Drip, Drip, Drip Of Hillary Clinton's Email Controversy

The State Department is set to release about 3,000 pages of emails from Hillary Clinton's time as secretary of state on Tuesday. The release is ... «New Hampshire Public Radio, Jun 15»

Toro upgrades popular drip irrigation software

Toro recently announced another upgrade to its popular AquaFlow drip irrigation design software. The latest version includes a search feature ... «Western Farm Press, Jun 15»