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Drip vs Drizzle - What's the difference?

drip | drizzle |

As verbs the difference between drip and drizzle

is that drip is to fall one drop at a time while drizzle is (ambitransitive) to rain lightly; to shed slowly in minute drops or particles.

As nouns the difference between drip and drizzle

is that drip is a drop of a liquid while drizzle is light rain.

As an acronym drip

is (finance) dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.

drip

English

(wikipedia drip)

Verb

(dripp)
  • To fall one drop at a time.
  • To leak slowly.
  • To let fall in drops.
  • * (Jonathan Swift)
    • Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain.
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  • To have a superabundance of valuable things.
  • (of the weather) To rain lightly.
  • To be wet, to be soaked.

    • Derived terms

    * dripper

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A drop of a liquid.
    • I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.
  • (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream (an intravenous drip).
    • He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip .
  • (colloquial) A limp, ineffectual, boring or otherwise uninteresting person.
    • He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip !
  • A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
  • * Byron
    • the light drip of the suspended oar
  • (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.

    • Derived terms

    *

    Acronym

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  • (finance) Dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing

    • drizzle

    English

    Verb

    (drizzl)
  • (ambitransitive) To rain lightly; to shed slowly in minute drops or particles.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The air doth drizzle dew.
  • (cooking) To pour slowly and evenly, especially with oil in cooking.
    • The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle it in olive oil.
    The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle olive oil on it.
  • (slang) To urinate.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Light rain.
  • (physics, weather). Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground. It is sometimes accompanied by low visibility and fog.
    • No longer pouring, the rain outside slowed down to a faint drizzle .
  • (slang) Water.
    • Stop drinking all of my drizzle !

    • Derived terms

    * drizzly