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Leaking vs Dribbling - What's the difference?

leaking | dribbling |

As verbs the difference between leaking and dribbling

is that leaking is while dribbling is .

As nouns the difference between leaking and dribbling

is that leaking is the act by which something leaks while dribbling is an amount of liquid that is dribbled.

leaking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something leaks.
  • (in the plural) That which leaks out.
  • * 2007 , Lynne Conner, Pittsburgh in Stages: Two Hundred Years of Theater (page 15)
    • on rainy nights the audience in the pit held up their umbrellas to screen themselves from the leakings through the roof.

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    dribbling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An amount of liquid that is dribbled.
  • * 1850 , The Journal of the Horticultural Society of London
    • In dry weather, when plants are drawn out of the seed bed, and planted with a common dibber, receiving daily dribblings of water, many will perish, and all are materially injured.
  • * 1866 , Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command
    • From the mouth you early observe a dribbling of saliva of a sticky nature and mixed with air, and of a disagreeable fetor