| Engelsk > Engelsk |
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| drip |
| 1. v. (intransitive) To fall one drop at a time. |
| Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad! |
| 2. v. (intransitive) To leak slowly. |
| Does the sink drip, or have I just spilt water over the floor? |
| 3. v. To let fall in drops. |
| After putting oil on the side of the salad, the chef should drip a little vinegar in the oil. |
| My broken pen dripped ink onto the table. |
| 4. v. (intransitive usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things. |
| The Old Hall simply drips with masterpieces of the Flemish painters. |
| The duchess was dripping with jewels. |
| 5. v. (intransitive, of the weather) To rain lightly. |
| The weather isn't so bad. I mean, it's dripping, but you're not going to get so wet. |
| 6. v. (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked. |
| 7. n. A drop of a liquid. |
| I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa. |
| 8. n. A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping. |
| 9. n. (medicine) 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. |
| 10. n. (colloquial) A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person. |
| He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip! |
| 11. n. (architecture) 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. |
| 12. n. (finance) A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing. |
| Svenska > Engelsk |
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| dropp |
| 1. n-n. drip; an apparatus that slowly releases a liquid |
