drip
发音
How to pronounce drip in British English:
英 [drɪp]
How to pronounce drip in American English:
美 [drɪp]
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- Noun:
- flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid
- the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop
- (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway)
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- Verb:
- fall in drops
- let or cause to fall in drops
单词词源
- drip
- drip: see drop
- drip (n.)
- mid-15c., from drip (v.). The slang meaning "stupid, feeble, or dull person" is first recorded 1932, perhaps from earlier American English slang sense "nonsense" (1919).
- drip (v.)
- c. 1300, perhaps from Middle Danish drippe, from Proto-Germanic *drup- (cognates: Dutch druipen, German triefen), from PIE root *dhreu-. Related to droop and drop. Old English had cognate drypan "to let drop," dropian "fall in drops," and dreopan "to drop." Related: Dripped; dripping.
双语例句
- 1. She does not want to drip all the way back through the restaurant .
- 2. On this basis , the schindlers demanded that she continue to be kept on a drip feed .
- 3. Wherever we go , melodies both familiar and exotic burst out of speakers , vibrate in concert halls , groove around city streets and drip off the walls in sweaty dance clubs .
- 4. Kyle 's colleague geoff watts mostly echoed stumptown 's definition , but noted that espresso is also drunk differently than drip or press coffee .
- 5. Changing farming practices by adopting more water-conserving drip irrigation or planting crops amid fertilizing trees , as is now happening throughout africa , will also be key .