Trickle vs Weep - What's the difference?
trickle | weep |
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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To cry; shed tears.
* Longfellow
To lament; to complain.
* Bible, Numbers xi. 13
(medicine, of a, wound or sore) To produce secretions.
To flow in drops; to run in drops.
* Shakespeare
To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
(obsolete) To weep over; to bewail.
* Prior
As nouns the difference between trickle and weep
is that trickle is a very thin river while weep is the lapwing; the wipe.As verbs the difference between trickle and weep
is that trickle is to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously while weep is to cry; shed tears.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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Anagrams
*weep
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) wepen, from (etyl) .Verb
- They wept together in silence.
- They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
- a weeping spring, which discharges water slowly
- The blood weeps from my heart.
- Fair Venus wept the sad disaster / Of having lost her favorite dove.
