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Dribble vs Dribbling - What's the difference?

dribble | dribbling |

As verbs the difference between dribble and dribbling

is that dribble is to let saliva drip from the mouth, to drool while dribbling is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between dribble and dribbling

is that dribble is a weak, unsteady stream; a trickle while dribbling is an amount of liquid that is dribbled.

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.

    • Related terms

    * crossover dribble * double dribble * dribble glass * dribble penetration * dribbly * kill one's dribble

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    dribbling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An amount of liquid that is dribbled.
  • * 1850 , The Journal of the Horticultural Society of London
    • In dry weather, when plants are drawn out of the seed bed, and planted with a common dibber, receiving daily dribblings of water, many will perish, and all are materially injured.
  • * 1866 , Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command
    • From the mouth you early observe a dribbling of saliva of a sticky nature and mixed with air, and of a disagreeable fetor