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Definition: Driblet |
DribletNoun1. A small quantity of liquid; "one drop of each sample was analyzed"; "any child with a drop of negro blood was legally a negro". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "driblet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonym: DribletSynonym: drop (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Smallness | Small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Driblet |
| English words defined with "driblet": Dribblet. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "driblet": Aphorism ♦ blowing cone ♦ lava cone. (references) |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697 |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; 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 |
driblet | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "driblet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | טפ" (drop, spot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kis mennyiség (dribblet, modicum, modicum of, paucity, smidgen, trace), kis darabka (dribblet, nubbin), kis összeg (dribblet), apró darabka (dribblet, snippet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | setitik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | gocciolina (dribblet, droplet), goccetta (dribblet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ibletdray หย"เล็กๆ (drib, glob). (various references) damla (bead, blob, drachm, dribblet, drop, drops, glob, minim, suspicion), parça (attachment, batch, bit, cake, Cantle, component, cut, dribblet, fraction, fragment, gobbet, item, lump, moiety, morsel, part, passage, patch, piece, portion, scrap, segment, shred, snatch, tool), nebze (bit, dribblet), az miktar (dribblet, drop, few, fewness, inch, little, Mickle, modicum, shade, smallness, suggestion, suspicion, tinge, trifle, twopence). (various references) món tiền nhỏ (dribblet), lượng nhỏ (dribblet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "driblet": driblets. (additional references) | |
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"Driblet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Darriulat, dribe, drible, Driglam, Ritblatt. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-i-l-r-t" | |
-1 letter: birled, bridle, riblet, tirled. | |
-2 letters: bider, bidet, bield, birle, biter, blite, bride, debit, idler, liber, liter, litre, rebid, relit, riled, tilde, tiled, tiler, tired, tribe, tried. | |
-3 letters: belt, bide, bier, bile, bird, birl, bite, bled, blet, bred, brie, brit, debt, deil, deli, delt, diel, diet, dire, dirl, dirt, dite, drib, edit, idle, ired. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-i-l-r-t" | |
+1 letter: bristled, brittled, dribblet, driblets, librated, trilobed. | |
+2 letters: blistered, blithered, dribblets, liberated. | |
+3 letters: brutalised, brutalized, calibrated, creditable, creditably, deliberate, embrittled, lubricated, timberland, timbrelled, tribulated, wattlebird. | |
+4 letters: blueprinted, boatbuilder, butterflied, credibility, deliberated, deliberates, detribalize, erodibility, fibrillated, labradorite, obliterated, predictable, predictably, readability, timberlands, tuberculoid, unliberated, wattlebirds. | |
+5 letters: accreditable, bactericidal, bardolatries, bewilderment, bigheartedly, boatbuilders, defibrillate, deliberately, deliberating, deliberation, deliberative, desirability, destructible, determinable, determinably, detribalized, detribalizes, disreputable, disreputably, distractable, distractible, distrainable, dramatizable, drapeability, driveability, durabilities, equilibrated, extraditable, filibustered, labradorites, recalibrated, reducibility, relubricated, restabilized, subeditorial, timberdoodle, uncalibrated, withdrawable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 72 69 62 6C 65 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .-. .. -... .-.. . - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01110010 01101001 01100010 01101100 01100101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D r i b l e t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0072 0069 0062 006C 0065 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38847568787186 |
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