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Definition: Drizzle |
DrizzleNoun1. Very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower. Verb1. Rain lightly; "When it drizzles in summer, hiking can be pleasant.". 2. Moisten with fine drops; "drizzle the meat with melted butter". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "drizzle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references) |
Note: Drizzle \Driz"zle\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Drizzled; Drizzling.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: DrizzleSynonyms: mizzle (v), moisten (v). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: drizzled (geographygeography, transportationenvironment, geography). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
River | Rain, rainfall; serein; shower, scud; downpour; driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst; hyetology, hyetography; predominance of Aquarius, reign of St. Swithin; mizzle, drizzle, stillicidum, plash; dropping. Verb: falling weather; northeaster, hurricane, typhoon. |
Rain hard, rain in torrents, rain cats and dogs, rain pitchforks; pour with rain, drizzle, spit, set in; mizzle. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Drizzle |
| English words defined with "drizzle": Bedrizzle ♦ Drizzled. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "drizzle": clear ice, Cosmic rays ♦ glazed frost, Gunge ♦ Polar rain. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | U.S. forces establish bases in Liberia. Members of the U.S. Army Engineers Corps stationed in Liberia set out in a tropical drizzle to begin their day's work. Chiefly composed of Negro units, the U.S. forces are stationed in the African Negro Republic at. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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 | Spray; atomize; diffuse; drizzle; dust; scatter; shoot; shower; smear; spatter; splash; spritz; squirt; throw around. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Drizzle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.73% of the time. "Drizzle" is used about 205 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 90.73% | 186 | 22,556 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 5.85% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.41% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 205 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "drizzle": freezing drizzle ♦ heavy freezing drizzle. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "drizzle": drizzle-veiled. | |
Ending with "drizzle": sea-drizzle. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
drizzle | 23 |
drizzle stick | 12 |
drizzle stik | 3 |
drizzle who | 2 |
drizzle boot | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "drizzle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | motreën (drizzling, drizzling rain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | veson (it dribbles, it mists, sprinkle), rigon, pikoj (blob, dapple, distil, distill, dribble, drip, drop, leak, ooze, trickle), bien pikëla, bie shi i imët. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قطرات (drops), تمطر رذاذا (mizzle, sprinkle), جعله يقطر (trickle), رذاذ (dribble, perfusion, spit, spray), رذ (dust), بلل بالرذاذ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ситен дъжд (mizzle), ръми (it is misting, it mizzles). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 毛毛雨 (light rain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | poprchávat, mrholit (mizzle, spit), mrholení, mžít (mizzle, spit), krápat (mottle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | støvregn (fine drizzle, fine drizzling rain, mizzle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | motregenen (mizzle), motregen (drizzling rain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | pluveto (drizzling rain), pluveti (mizzle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | sirma (mizzle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نم نم باران , ریزباریدن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vihmasade, vihma, tihkusade. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | bruine (drizzling rain), crachin (fine drizzle, fine drizzling rain), bruiner. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Nieseln (fine drizzle, fine drizzling rain, mizzle), Sprühregen (fine rain, mists, spray). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ψιχάλα (dribble, mizzle, spatter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ירי"ת 'שם קל, זרזיף (dripping, raindrop, stream), 'שם קל (sprinkle), רביב (droplet, rain, shower), רסס. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szitáló eső. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | menggerimis, hujan gerimis, gerimis (drizzling rain), bergerimis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | piovigginare, pioggerella (mizzle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 霧雨 (light rain), 細雨 (misty rain), 時雨 (shower in late autumn or early winter), 小降り (light rain), 小雨 (light rain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しぐれ (shower in late autumn or early winter), きりさめ (light rain), さいう (misty rain), "さめ (light rain), "ぶり (light rain, small size). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 보슬비. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | joanlagh (dusty, Scotch mist), dramane (misty rain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | duskregn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | izzledray chuvisco (fine drizzle, fine drizzling rain, mizzle, snow). (various references) plouã mocnit, ploaie mãruntã (spit), cerne (bolt, distinguish, riddle, screen, sieve, sift, spit), burniţã (mist), bura (spit). (various references) моросить (spit). (various references) ceòban (small drizzle, small drizzling rain). (various references) sipiti (sprinkle), rositi (dew), rominjati, rominjanje. (various references) guti. (various references) llovizna (mizzle), garúa. (various references) duggregn. (various references) ฝนตกปรอยปราย. (various references) serpiştirmek (Dot, dredge, intersperse, spit, splash, splatter, sprinkle, strew, weave), ahmak ıslatan, çiseleyen yağmur, çiselemek (mist, spit, sprinkle), çiseleme (spit, spray, sprinkle). (various references) sepelemek, зisсi (frost), зisсemek. (various references) мрячити (dank, mizzle, spit), мряка (dribble, mist, mizzle). (various references) mưa phùn (mizzle), mưa bụi (mizzle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "drizzle": drizzled, drizzles. (additional references) | |
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"Drizzle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dizzle, Dreitzel, dreizzle, Dreze, driz, drizle, Drizley, Rizzla. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "drizzle" (pronounced dri"zul) |
| 5 | -r i" z u l | grizzle. |
| 4 | -i" z u l | chisel, fizzle, sizzle. |
| 3 | -z u l | appraisal, arousal, Basil, causal, counterproposal, damsel, dazzle, disposal, easel, embezzle, frazzle, guzzle, Hazel, menopausal, muzzle, nasal, nozzle, nuzzle, perusal, pretzel, proposal, puzzle, reappraisal, recusal, refusal, reprisal, spousal, weasel, Wurzel. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-l-r-z-z" | |
-2 letters: idler, riled. | |
-3 letters: deil, deli, diel, dire, dirl, idle, ired, lied, lier, lire, ride, riel, rile. | |
-4 letters: del, die, eld, ire, led, lei, lez, lid, lie, red, rei, rid, zed. | |
-5 letters: de, ed, el, er, id, li, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-l-r-z-z" | |
+1 letter: drizzled, drizzles, frizzled, grizzled. | |
+2 letters: drizzlier. | |
+3 letters: drizzliest. | |
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