Torent vs Trickle - What's the difference?
torent | trickle |
(torend)
(obsolete) Torn.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.8:
*:Yet fled she fast, and both them farre outwent; / […] With locks all loose, and rayment all to-rent […].
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A very thin river.
A very thin flow; the act of trickling .
to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously
to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
To move or roll slowly.
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As verbs the difference between torent and trickle
is that torent is (torend) while trickle is to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously.As an adjective torent
is (obsolete) torn.As a noun trickle is
a very thin river.torent
English
Alternative forms
*to-rentVerb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)trickle
English
Noun
(en noun)- The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle .
- The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.
Verb
(trickl)- The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.
- Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.
- The film was so bad that people trickled out of the cinema before its end.
- Her white night-dress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man's bare chest which was shown by his torn-open dress.
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