Drip vs Dill - What's the difference?
drip | dill | Synonyms |
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
Anethum graveolens (the sole species of the genus ), a herb, the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; also known as dillseed.
A cucumber pickled with dill flavoring, also called a dill pickle.
(informal) a fool.
Drip is a synonym of dill.
As nouns the difference between drip and dill
is that drip is a drop of a liquid while dill is spot, dot, fleck or dill can be deal, agreement, bargain.As a verb drip
is to fall one drop at a time.As an acronym drip
is (finance) 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