Drizzle vs Dribbles - What's the difference?
drizzle | dribbles |
(ambitransitive) To rain lightly; to shed slowly in minute drops or particles.
* Shakespeare
(cooking) To pour slowly and evenly, especially with oil in cooking.
(slang) To urinate.
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.
(slang) Water.
As verbs the difference between drizzle and dribbles
is that drizzle is (ambitransitive) to rain lightly; to shed slowly in minute drops or particles while dribbles is .As a noun drizzle
is light rain.drizzle
English
Verb
(drizzl)- The air doth drizzle dew.
- 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.
Noun
(en noun)- No longer pouring, the rain outside slowed down to a faint drizzle .
- Stop drinking all of my drizzle !