dripping
part of speech
verb form (drip, drips, dripped, dripping); adjective (dripping); noun (dripping — fat from meat, UK)
meaning for a pupil
1) Dripping means falling in small drops, or letting drops fall: a dripping tap. tree →
2) Dripping wet means extremely wet. tree →
3) Dripping with something means covered in a lot of it. tree →
4) In British English, dripping is the fat that comes out of meat when it is roasted. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, water dripping shows liquids falling under gravity; pupils measure drips from a tap and learn about saving water. In everyday life, you come in dripping wet after rain. Phrases: dripping wet, a dripping tap, dripping with sweat.
examples
- The tap is dripping; please turn it off. tree →
- I came home dripping wet from the rain. tree →
- Ice cream was dripping down my hand. tree →
- Water was dripping from the roof. tree →
- He was dripping with sweat after the race. tree →
- A dripping tap can waste lots of water. tree →
- Grandma cooked potatoes in beef dripping. tree →
- Dripping with his recent plunge he sat with chattering teeth within his unfired wigwam. tree →
note
It is the -ing form of drip: double the p (drip, dripping, dripped). In maths, if a tap drips 10 drops a minute, it drips 600 drops in an hour (10 × 60).
In the corpora
- 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.
- Picture a bath with the hot tap dripping: one splash can still feel cold, but the water slowly gets warmer.
- A dripping tap can waste thousands of litres of water in a year.
Trees and pragmatics
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