transcription, транскрипция: [ drɪp ]
( drips, dripping, dripped)
1.
When liquid drips somewhere, or you drip it somewhere, it falls in individual small drops.
Sit your child forward and let the blood drip into a tissue or on to the floor...
Amid the trees the sea mist was dripping...
The children kept dripping Coke on the carpets.
VERB : V prep / adv , V , V n prep / adv
2.
When something drips , drops of liquid fall from it.
A tap in the kitchen was dripping...
Lou was dripping with perspiration...
He was holding a cloth that dripped pink drops upon the floor.
VERB : V , V with n , V n
3.
A drip is a small individual drop of a liquid.
Drips of water rolled down the trousers of his uniform.
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4.
A drip is a piece of medical equipment by which a liquid is slowly passed through a tube into a patient’s blood.
I had a bad attack of pneumonia and spent two days in hospital on a drip.
N-COUNT
5.
If you say that something is dripping with a particular thing, you mean that it contains a lot of that thing. ( LITERARY )
They were dazed by window displays dripping with diamonds and furs...
VERB : usu cont , V with n
6.
see also drip-dry , dripping