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
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
- 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
- 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.
- Stalactites hang from cave roofs and stalagmites grow up from the floor, built from dripping water.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «drip» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.