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Brook vs Trickle - What's the difference?

brook | trickle |

In transitive terms the difference between brook and trickle

is that brook is to bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object) while trickle is to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously.

As verbs the difference between brook and trickle

is that brook is to use; enjoy; have the full employment of while trickle is to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously.

As nouns the difference between brook and trickle

is that brook is a body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream while trickle is a very thin river.

As a proper noun Brook

is {{surname|from=Middle English}} for someone living by a brook.

brook

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)
  • To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.
  • To earn; deserve.
  • (label) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object ).
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=6, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.}}
  • * 2005 , Nicholas Ostler, Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World , Harper:
    • Nevertheless, Garcilaso does claim that the Spaniards ‘who were unable to brook the length of the discourse, had left their places and fallen on the Indians’.
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    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
  • *Bible, (w) viii. 7
  • *:The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:empties itself, as doth an inland brook / into the main of waters
  • *
  • *:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
  • A water meadow.
  • Low, marshy ground.
    • Synonyms
    * beck * burn * coulee * creek * stream

    trickle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A very thin river.
    • The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle .
  • A very thin flow; the act of trickling .
    • The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.

    Verb

    (trickl)
  • to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously
    • The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.
  • to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously
    • Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.
    The film was so bad that people trickled out of the cinema before its end.
  • * 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
    • Her white night-dress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man's bare chest which was shown by his torn-open dress.
  • To move or roll slowly.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Their only shot of the first period was a long-range strike from top-scorer Ebanks-Blake which trickled tamely wide.}}

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