Drip vs Drool - What's the difference?
drip | drool |
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
to secrete saliva in anticipation of food
to secrete saliva upon seeing something nice
to talk nonsense
saliva trickling from the mouth
As verbs the difference between drip and drool
is that drip is to fall one drop at a time while drool is to secrete saliva in anticipation of food.As nouns the difference between drip and drool
is that drip is a drop of a liquid while drool is saliva trickling from the mouth.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)drool
English
Verb
(en verb)- That boy is so attractive I drool whenever I see him