Dipped vs Dripped - What's the difference?
dipped | dripped |
(dip)
That has been briefly immersed in a liquid.
Of headlights: lowered.
(archaic, colloquial) Caught up in debt; mortgaged.
*1705 , (Bernard Mandeville), The Fable of the Bees :
*:The Lawyers [...] Opposed all Registers, that Cheats / Might make more Work with dipt Estates [...].
(drip)
To fall one drop at a time.
To leak slowly.
To let fall in drops.
* (Jonathan Swift)
* , chapter=8
, title= To have a superabundance of valuable things.
(of the weather) To rain lightly.
To be wet, to be soaked.
A drop of a liquid.
(medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream (an intravenous drip).
(colloquial) A limp, ineffectual, boring or otherwise uninteresting person.
A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
* Byron
(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.
(finance) Dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing
As verbs the difference between dipped and dripped
is that dipped is (dip) while dripped is (drip).As an adjective dipped
is that has been briefly immersed in a liquid.dipped
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)dripped
English
Verb
(head)drip
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(wikipedia drip)Verb
(dripp)- Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Philander went into the next room
Derived terms
* dripperNoun
(en noun)- I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.
- He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip .
- He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip !
- the light drip of the suspended oar