Meaning of "drizzle" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DRIZZLE

Old English drēosan to fall; related to Old Saxon driosan, Gothic driusan, Norwegian drjōsa.

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

PRONUNCIATION OF DRIZZLE

drizzle  [ˈdrɪzəl]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DRIZZLE

Drizzle 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 drizzle in English.

WHAT DOES DRIZZLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Drizzle

Drizzle is a light liquid precipitation consisting of liquid water drops smaller than those of rain - generally smaller than 0.5 mm 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.

Definition of drizzle in the English dictionary

The first definition of drizzle in the dictionary is very light rain, specifically consisting of droplets less than 0.5 mm in diameter. Other definition of drizzle is to rain lightly. Drizzle is also to moisten with tiny droplets.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DRIZZLE

PRESENT

Present

I drizzle

you drizzle

he/she/it drizzles

we drizzle

you drizzle

they drizzle

Present continuous

I am drizzling

you are drizzling

he/she/it is drizzling

we are drizzling

you are drizzling

they are drizzling

Present perfect

I have drizzled

you have drizzled

he/she/it has drizzled

we have drizzled

you have drizzled

they have drizzled

Present perfect continuous

I have been drizzling

you have been drizzling

he/she/it has been drizzling

we have been drizzling

you have been drizzling

they have been drizzling

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 drizzled

you drizzled

he/she/it drizzled

we drizzled

you drizzled

they drizzled

Past continuous

I was drizzling

you were drizzling

he/she/it was drizzling

we were drizzling

you were drizzling

they were drizzling

Past perfect

I had drizzled

you had drizzled

he/she/it had drizzled

we had drizzled

you had drizzled

they had drizzled

Past perfect continuous

I had been drizzling

you had been drizzling

he/she/it had been drizzling

we had been drizzling

you had been drizzling

they had been drizzling

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

FUTURE

Future

I will drizzle

you will drizzle

he/she/it will drizzle

we will drizzle

you will drizzle

they will drizzle

Future continuous

I will be drizzling

you will be drizzling

he/she/it will be drizzling

we will be drizzling

you will be drizzling

they will be drizzling

Future perfect

I will have drizzled

you will have drizzled

he/she/it will have drizzled

we will have drizzled

you will have drizzled

they will have drizzled

Future perfect continuous

I will have been drizzling

you will have been drizzling

he/she/it will have been drizzling

we will have been drizzling

you will have been drizzling

they will have been drizzling

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

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would drizzle

you would drizzle

he/she/it would drizzle

we would drizzle

you would drizzle

they would drizzle

Conditional continuous

I would be drizzling

you would be drizzling

he/she/it would be drizzling

we would be drizzling

you would be drizzling

they would be drizzling

Conditional perfect

I would have drizzle

you would have drizzle

he/she/it would have drizzle

we would have drizzle

you would have drizzle

they would have drizzle

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been drizzling

you would have been drizzling

he/she/it would have been drizzling

we would have been drizzling

you would have been drizzling

they would have been drizzling

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

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you drizzle
we let´s drizzle
you drizzle

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to drizzle

Past participle

drizzled

Present Participle

drizzling

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 «DRIZZLE»

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

synonyms of drizzle

dribble · drip · mizzle · pour · rain · Scotch mist · shower · smir · spit · splash · spray · sprinkle · trickle

TRANSLATION OF DRIZZLE

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

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

• Translator English - Chinese: 毛毛雨
• Translator English - Spanish: llovizna
• English: drizzle
• Translator English - Hindi: बूंदा बांदी
• Translator English - Arabic: رَذاذ
• Translator English - Russian: мелкий дождь
• Translator English - Portuguese: garoa
• Translator English - Bengali: গুঁড়ি গুঁড়ি ব্রষ্টি
• Translator English - French: bruine
• Translator English - Malay: Gerimis
• Translator English - German: Nieselregen
• Translator English - Japanese: 霧雨
• Translator English - Korean: 이슬비
• Translator English - Javanese: Drizzle
• Translator English - Vietnamese: mưa phùn
• Translator English - Tamil: தூறல்
• Translator English - Marathi: रिमझल
• Translator English - Turkish: ahmak ıslatan
• Translator English - Italian: pioggerella
• Translator English - Polish: mżawka
• Translator English - Ukrainian: мряка
• Translator English - Romanian: burniță
• Translator English - Greek: ψιλοβρόχι
• Translator English - Afrikaans: motreën
• Translator English - Swedish: duggregn
• Translator English - Norwegian: duskregn

4 QUOTES WITH «DRIZZLE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word drizzle.

1

Katy B

I love being at home now, improving my cooking. I've got a really bad memory, so my first attempts were a disaster - I'd forget what ingredients to put in. But I do a lasagna that's a crowd-pleaser, and a good lemon drizzle cake, which I take to my mom's for the Sunday roast to fatten the family up.

2

Lucy Davis

I work much better in sunshine. It's drizzle and grayness that I don't like.

3

Emeril Lagasse

I love fresh citrus and always keep lemons, limes, and oranges on hand; they come in handy for spritzing up quickly grilled meats, seafoods, and vegetables, especially when followed up by a quick drizzle of extra virgin olive oil.

4

William Styron

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DRIZZLE»

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

Drizzle

Eleven-year-old Polly Peabody needs to make it start raining again.

Kathleen Van Cleve, 2010

Rain, Drizzle, Fog: Film and Television in Atlantic Canada

This is an exciting new collection sure to create ripples throughout Canadian film studies ? an important new addition to the literature on Canadian screen culture.

Darrell Varga, 2009

A Drizzle of Honey: The Life and Recipes of Spain's Secret Jews

The recipes, and the accompanying stories of the people who created them, promise to delight the adventurous palate and give insights into the foundations of modern Sephardic cuisine.

David M. Gitlitz, Linda Kay Davidson, 2000

Cries in the Drizzle

With its moving, thoughtful prose, Cries in the Drizzle is a stunning addition to the wide-ranging work of one of China’s most distinguished contemporary writers. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Yu Hua, 2008

Observations of Drizzle Cells in Marine Stratocumulus

This work is divided into two parts: the first part describes a modified dual-Doppler analysis used to derive velocity components lying in a single-plane that is described by the orientations of the radar beams and the aircraft velocity ...

David Charles Leon, University of Wyoming. Department of Atmospheric Science, 2006

Drizzle of Yesteryears and Other Stories

This collection of seventeen short stories, arranged in two sections At Home and In Exile examines belongingness, delightfully eccentric behaviour, displacement, everyday surprises and longing to return to one s roots.

Ajay M. K, 2006

Results of the meteorological observations taken in the ...

17 watches squally ; drizzle, 8 ; current, 1 E. 50 29-89 54-8 8 11 — — [87]. 15 watches squally. 42 29-85 60-4 23 10 9 1 [40]. 43 watches squally ; drizzle, 3 ; 12 hours consecutive rain. 5-0 29-95 55-9 25 11 4 [119]. 44 watches squally ; drizzle , ...

Melbourne Observatory, Georg Balthasar von Neumayer, 1864

The Raindrops and the Wrong Cloud

It was a warm sunny morning and the drizzle family were sitting in their cloud watching TV and having tea, they were watching their favourite TV program when the cloud bell rings, it was seargent icicle and pc raindrop. Do come in, said Mrs ...

Graham Waters, 2009

Professional Website Performance: Optimizing the Front-End ...

Although MariaDB is a branch of MySQL that can act as a drop-in replacement, Drizzle (http://drizzle.org) is better described as a fork and contains significant recoding. As such, although Drizzle is largely compatible with MySQL, it makes no ...

Peter Smith, 2012

Precipitation: Advances in Measurement, Estimation and ...

3.5.1 Light precipitation and drizzle measurements Light rain or drizzle cannot be obtained accurately from the traditional precipitation instruments (e.g., tipping buckets and weighing gauges) and from presently available disdrometers.

Silas C. Michaelides, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DRIZZLE»

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

Peter Coade's weather forecast for July 7, 2015

... region during the day Wednesday with some showers, and some areas of fog and drizzle ahead of it in the onshore south to southwest wind. «CBC.ca, Jul 15»

Drizzle Banishes Bay Area Beach Weather – Head Inland To Find …

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – The Bay Area's coastal residents woke up to grey skies and even a bit of moisture early Monday, forcing some to ... «CBS Local, Jul 15»

Irish drizzle sets in as French fires burn

However, coastal fog and drizzle will set in over the south and southeast, while cloud will increase with rain spreading into the late afternoon ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»

Drizzle then sun in today's forecast for Cape Breton

Those conditions are expected to shift to a mix of sun and cloud by this afternoon, though. Expect winds throughout the day from the southwest ... «Cape Breton Post, Jul 15»

Rain and drizzle in the Monday weather forecast

According to that forecast rain will end this afternoon and then give way to cloudy conditions with a 30 per cent chance of showers or drizzle. «Cape Breton Post, Jun 15»

Wake-Up Weather: Cool With Morning Drizzle

There will be cloudy skies and some drizzle Monday morning. Things clear up in the afternoon, but there's a chance of rain. Highs will be in the ... «WWNY TV 7, Jun 15»

Brisbane weather: Drizzle set to stay for the week

Brisbane weather: Drizzle set to stay for the week. Date: June 29, 2015. (29); Comments 1; Read later. Kim Stephens. Journalist. View more articles from Kim ... «Brisbane Times, Jun 15»

Clouds, drizzle shower relief

LUCKNOW: Cloudy sky followed by pre-monsoon drizzles on Wednesday evening brought relief from hot and humid weather conditions ... «Times of India, Jun 15»

Drizzle doesn't dampen spirits at Log Cabin Day

EAST SPARTA-- Several people packed Pike Township's Log Cabin Day Saturday afternoon despite being drenched by a steady drizzle. «Press News, Jun 15»

Storm and drizzle cool Gurgaon, more rain in store this week …

GURGAON: A dust storm, coupled with bouts of slight drizzle, hit Gurgaon on Tuesday afternoon, bringing relief to residents who have been ... «NYOOOZ, Jun 15»