drizzle
part of speech
noun (drizzle; a drizzle); verb (drizzle, drizzles, drizzled, drizzling)
meaning for a pupil
1) Drizzle is light rain falling in very small, fine drops. tree →
2) To drizzle (weather) means to rain lightly. tree →
3) In cooking, to drizzle is to pour a thin stream of liquid over food, such as honey or oil. tree →
sense in the lessons
Used in weather reports and everyday talk (very common in the UK and Ireland) and in recipes. Phrases: «a light drizzle», «it's drizzling», «drizzle with olive oil». It tells the reader the rain is weak but wet.
examples
- It's only drizzle, so we can still walk to school. tree →
- A cold drizzle fell all afternoon. tree →
- It started to drizzle as we left the park. tree →
- Drizzle honey over the pancakes. tree →
- Mum drizzled lemon icing on the cake. tree →
- The forecast says drizzle in the morning, sun later. tree →
- Soon it began to drizzle; then the drops came faster, and there was a regular down-pour. tree →
note
As weather it is usually uncountable: «drizzle», «some drizzle», but «a light drizzle» is fine. Drizzle is lighter than rain and much lighter than a downpour. Adjective: drizzly.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «drizzle» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.