Dribble vs Drain - What's the difference?

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Dribble is a related term of drain.

As verbs the difference between dribble and drain

is that dribble is while drain is to lose liquid.

As a noun drain is

a conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume.

dribble

English

Verb

(dribbl)

To let saliva drip from the mouth, to drool

To fall in drops or an unsteady stream, to trickle

In various ball games, to run with the ball, controlling its path with the feet

(basketball) To bounce the ball on the floor with one hand at a time, enabling the player to move with it;

To advance by dribbling

to let something fall in drips

* Jonathan Swift

Let the cook dribble it all the way upstairs.

in various ball games, to move the ball, by repeated light kicks

Noun

(en noun)

A weak, unsteady stream; a trickle.

A small amount of a liquid.

In sport, the act of dribbling.

Anagrams

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drain

English

Noun

(en noun)

A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-03, volume=101, issue=2, page=114, magazine=(American Scientist)

, author=Frank Fish, George Lauder , title= Not Just Going with the Flow , passage=An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex . The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain , as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.}}

An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without going through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods.

Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.

(label) An act of urination.

(label) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).

Derived terms

* circle the drain * down the drain * drain fly

Verb

(en verb)

To lose liquid.

The clogged sink drained slowly.

To flow gradually.

The water of low ground drains off.

(ergative) To cause liquid to flow out of.

Please drain the sink. It's full of dirty water.

(ergative) To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.

They had to drain the swampy land before the parking lot could be built.

To deplete of energy or resources.

The stress of this job is really draining me.

To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.

* Francis Bacon

Fountains drain the water from the ground adjacent.

* Motley

But it was not alone that he drained their treasure and hampered their industry.

(obsolete) To filter.

* Francis Bacon

Salt water, drained through twenty vessels of earth, hath become fresh.

(pinball) To fall off the bottom of the playfield.

* 1990 , Steven A. Schwartz, Compute's Nintendo Secrets

When a ball finally drains , it's gulped down by a giant gator beneath the set of flippers.

Derived terms

* drainage * drain the lizard (vulgar)