Drizzle vs Precipitation - What's the difference?
drizzle | precipitation |
(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.
(meteorology) Any or all of the forms of water particles, whether liquid or solid, that fall from the atmosphere (e.g., rain, hail, snow or sleet). It is a major class of hydrometeor, but it is distinguished from cloud, fog, dew, rime, frost, etc., in that it must fall. It is distinguished from cloud and virga in that it must reach the ground.
A hurried headlong fall.
(countable, chemistry) A reaction that leads to the formation of a heavier solid in a lighter liquid; the precipitate so formed at the bottom of the container.
(figuratively) Unwise or rash rapidity; sudden haste.
As nouns the difference between drizzle and precipitation
is that drizzle is light rain while precipitation is any or all of the forms of water particles, whether liquid or solid, that fall from the atmosphere (e.g., rain, hail, snow or sleet). It is a major class of hydrometeor, but it is distinguished from cloud, fog, dew, rime, frost, etc., in that it must fall. It is distinguished from cloud and virga in that it must reach the ground.As a verb drizzle
is to rain lightly; to shed slowly in minute drops or particles.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 !
Derived terms
* drizzlyprecipitation
English
Noun
- had acted with some precipitation and had probably started out upon a wild-goose chase --
