Drip vs Dig - What's the difference?
drip | dig |
To fall one drop at a time.
To leak slowly.
To let fall in drops.
* (Jonathan Swift)
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, 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
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, passage=Miss Thorn began digging up the turf with her lofter: it was a painful moment for me. ¶ “You might at least have tried me, Mrs. Cooke,” I said.}}
(label) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up .
(label) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
(label) To investigate, to research, often followed by out'' or ''up .
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* Robynson (More's Utopia)
An archeological investigation.
(US, colloquial, dated) A plodding and laborious student.
A thrust; a poke.
(slang) To understand or show interest in.
(slang) To appreciate, or like.
In transitive terms the difference between drip and dig
is that drip is to let fall in drops while dig is to get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.As verbs the difference between drip and dig
is that drip is to fall one drop at a time while dig is to move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.As nouns the difference between drip and dig
is that drip is a drop of a liquid while dig is an archeological investigation.As an acronym drip
is dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.drip
English
(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
Derived terms
*Acronym
(Acronym) (head)dig
English
(wikipedia dig)Etymology 1
From (etyl) , from (etyl) (m), itself a borrowing of the same Germanic root (from (etyl) (m)). More at ditch, dike.Verb
The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=Digging deeper, the invention of eyeglasses is an elaboration of the more fundamental development of optics technology. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.}}
- You should have seen children dig and push their mothers under the sides, saying thus to them: Look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear pearls.
Derived terms
* dig in * dig into * dig over * dig out * dig upNoun
(en noun)- He guffawed and gave me a dig in the ribs after telling his latest joke.
Synonyms
* (archaeological investigation) excavationEtymology 2
From (African American Vernacular English); due to lack of writing of slave speech, etymology is .Random House Unabridged, 2001 Others do not propose a distinct etymology, instead considering this a semantic shift of the existing English term (compare dig in/dig into'').eg: OED, "dig", from ME vt ''diggenVerb
- You dig ?
- Baby, I dig you.
