drip
part of speech
verb (drip, drips, dripped, dripping); noun (a drip, drips)
meaning for a pupil
1) To drip means to fall in small drops, or to let drops fall. A dripping tap lets out water drop by drop. tree →
2) A drip is one drop, or the sound of drops. tree →
3) A drip in a hospital puts liquid slowly into a patient's body. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Ezekiel, knees dripping with water means people so frightened that their legs turn weak. In the primary lessons: maths: a rate of water lost or collected over time (amount = rate × time); science: the water cycle, icicles, saving water; everyday life: a dripping tap wastes water, paint drips; safety: wipe up drips so no one slips
examples
- All hands shall be slack, and all knees shall drip with water. (Prophets EZK.7.17, JPS 1917) tree →
- The tap drips 5 drops a second. tree →
- Water drips into a bucket at 2 liters an hour. tree →
- How much water drips out in a day? tree →
- 30 ml dripped from the bottle. tree →
- Fix the dripping tap to save water. tree →
- Rain dripped from the roof. tree →
- The ice cream was dripping down my hand. tree →
- The nurse checked the patient's drip. tree →
- The water dripped from the straw mat which she had bound round her body, and from her gown. tree →
note
A rate: amount = rate × time. Trap: change hours to minutes or a day to 24 hours when the units differ. A day has 24 hours. Double the p: dripped, dripping.
In the corpora
- All hands shall be slack, and all knees shall drip with water.
- Penguins can drink sea water, because a special gland above the eyes removes extra salt, which drips out from the beak.
- Gulls can drink salt water, because glands above their eyes remove the salt and it drips out of their nose.
- The Rat grips Toad by the scruff of the neck and hauls him up into his hall, dripping with mud and weed.
- A dripping tap wastes a lot of water over days, so tell a grown-up.
Trees and pragmatics
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