trickle

«trickle» in Mova's school dictionary: for a liquid to flow slowly in a thin line or small drops — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (trickle, trickles, trickled, trickling); noun (a trickle, trickles)

meaning for a pupil

1) To trickle is for a liquid to flow slowly in a thin line or small drops. tree →

2) To trickle is also for people or things to come or go slowly, a few at a time. tree →

3) A trickle is a thin slow flow of liquid. tree →

4) A trickle is also a small number of people or things arriving slowly. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science: water trickling through soil or rocks, a stream as a trickle in summer. In everyday life: «trickle in», «trickle out» for people arriving or leaving slowly. In stories it makes the reader see small, slow movement: a trickle of blood, sweat or tears. Phrases: «trickle down», «a trickle of», «slow to a trickle».

examples

• A trickle of water ran down the window. tree →
• Sweat trickled down his face in the heat. tree →
• The pupils trickled into class after lunch. tree →
• In summer the river is only a trickle. tree →
• Sand trickled through her fingers. tree →
• Letters from fans came in at a trickle. tree →
• Rain trickled through the cracks in the roof. tree →
• The water trickled down the naked sides of the rocks, and snow lay thickly all around. tree →

note

Regular verb: «trickled», «trickling» (drop the e). A trickle is slower and smaller than a stream or a flow; a «gush» is the opposite. Countable as a noun: «a trickle».

In the corpora

• He bindeth the streams that they trickle not; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «trickle» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.