Dripping

Definition: Dripping

Dripping

Adjective

1. Having liquid falling in drops; "in the dripping fog"; "the scene where he is singing in the rain in dripping clothes"; "there was little shelter under the dripping trees".

2. Wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or blood or tears; "wiped his reeking neck".

Adverb

1. Extremely; "dripping wet," "soaking wet".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dripping" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Building & Civil Engineering

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Synonyms: Dripping

Moisture

Swashy, soggy, dabbled; reeking, dripping, soaking,soft, sodden, sloppy, muddy; swampy. (marshy); irriguous.

Oil

Noun: oil, fat, butter, cream, grease, tallow, suet, lard, dripping exunge, blubber; glycerin, stearin, elaine, oleagine; soap; soft soap, wax, cerement; paraffin, spermaceti, adipocere; petroleum, mineral, mineral rock, mineral crystal, mineral oil; vegetable oil, colza oil, olive oil, salad oil, linseed oil, cottonseed oil, soybean oil, nut oil; animal oil, neat's foot oil, train oil; ointment, unguent, liniment; aceite, amole, Barbados tar; fusel oil, grain oil, rape oil, seneca oil; hydrate

Crosswords: Dripping

I'll have his carcass dripping blood by midnight (The Long Good Friday; writing credit: Barrie Keeffe)

From a deep, immaculate kiss she spread her two ripe, dripping limbs and then I happened (Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael; writing credit: Karen Leigh Hopkins)

With dripping wings (Tonight and the Rest of My Life; performing artist: Nina Gordon)

Dripping Water (1969)

Wet Spots 2: Dripping (1998)

Alone and Dripping (1991)

Lizzie Dripping (1978)

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Books

• Bread & Dripping Days: An Australian Growing Up in the 20's (reference)

• Dripping Dry: Literature, Politics and Water in the Desert Southwest (Studies in Literature and Science) (reference)

• Dripping Wax (reference)

• Grey Sky Is Dripping (reference)

• Lizzie Dripping (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Shown is a studio shot of a variety of chemotherapy drugs in a dripping IV bottle. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

This is the trail head to the Dripping Springs trail located in the Organ Mounains, near Las Cruces, NM. Credit: Unknown.

Historic ruin in New Mexico, one of the buildings that makes up the Dripping Springs Resort in southern NM. Originally it was called Col. Eugene Van Patten's Mountain Camp named for the man who built it in the 1870's. Credit: Unknown.

Raised him dripping to the string-piece. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hitler writhing in hand dripping blood and labeled with the hammer & sickle, "V". Credit: Library of Congress.

Walter N. Gaylord dripping the boiled-down maple syrup sap to see if it has reached correct consistency for syrup. Making maple syrup on King evaporator. Waitsfield, Mad River Valley, Vermont. He averages about 150 gallons of syrup annually, this year he. Credit: Library of Congress.

Walter. M Gaylord dripping the boiled-down maple syrup to see if it has reached the correct consistency for maple syrup. Making maple syrup on King evaporator. Waitsfield, Mad River Valley, Vermont. He averages about 150 gallons of syrup annually, this ye. Credit: Library of Congress.

Oil dripping from olive pulp under hydraulic pressure. Lindsay, California. Credit: Library of Congress.

Boston and Maine railroad shops at Billerica, Massachusetts. Open air furnaces melting the lead from the huge locomotive driving wheels. The lead dripping can be senn being caught. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dove carrying olive branch, being stabbed by hammer and sickle and dripping blood in the shape of a star. Credit: Library of Congress.

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I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1905)

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He was very pale, though dripping with sweat

The juice was dripping now, and every drop, as it fell in the fire, shot up a spurt of flame

The chin is a still larger drop, the confluent dripping of the face

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Business

The U.S. share of imported peripherals related to high volume aspersion, mainly center pivots, was 24% of the market in 1999, and 23% for other segments such as small volume aspersion and dripping technologies. (references)

Human Rights

Iraq

According to former prisoners, torture techniques included branding, electric shocks administered to the genitals and other areas, beating, pulling out of fingernails, burning with hot irons and blowtorches, suspension from rotating ceiling fans, dripping acid on the skin, rape, breaking of limbs, denial of food and water, extended solitary confinement in dark and extremely small compartments, and threats to rape or otherwise harm family members and relatives. (references)

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Expressions using "dripping": be dripping wet ♦ blood dripping ♦ dripping exunge ♦ dripping olive ♦ Dripping pan ♦ Dripping Springs ♦ dripping wet ♦ pork dripping. Additional references.

Beginning with "dripping": dripping-wet.

Ending with "dripping": blood-dripping, constantly-dripping, damson-dripping, drip-dripping, pork-dripping, snow-dripping.

Albanian

tavë për lëngun (dripping pan). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قطرة الدهن, ‏تنقيط (dotting, instillation, pointing, punctuation), ‏تقطر (distil, drip, percolate, trickle), ‏عرق الشواء, ‏دلف (draggle, leak, leakage, seepage, spring a leak, toddle, trickle). (various references)

Chinese 

水滴 (drippings). (various references)

Czech

vyškvařený tuk, kapání (drip). (various references)

Danish

drypning, talg (beef tallow, fat, oleo oil, sebaceous matter, suet, suet oil, tallow, tallow oil), rislen, rinden, nyrefedt (beef tallow, suet), fedt (fat, grease). (various references)

Dutch

druppelen (drip), talk (suet, tallow), talg (suet, tallow), rundvet (beef tallow, suet). (various references)

Finnish

naudantali (beef tallow, suet). (various references)

French

égouttement (drainage). (various references)

German

tröpfelnd (dribbling, trickling), sickernd (oozing, seeping), Bratfett. (various references)

Greek 

ροή βουτύρου, στάξιμο (seepage), που στάζει, λίπος βοδινό (beef tallow, suet). (various references)

Hebrew 

פכפוך (bubbling, flow, gush, percolation, trickle), זליגה, זרזיף (drizzle, raindrop, stream), הטפה (exhortation, preaching, sermonizing), הרעפה (dropping), דליפה (leak, leakage, oozing, seepage, trickling), טפטוף (dribble, drip, perfusion), נטיפה (dropping, ear ring, pendant). (various references)

Hungarian

zsír (fat, fats, grease, lard), szaft (gravy, juice), pecsenyelé (gippo), csepegés (dribble, drip, dropping, ooze, oozing, running), csepegő (oozing), csöpögõ (dribbling), csöpögés (drip, dropping, spatter, splatter, weeping). (various references)

Italian

stillicidio (drip), sgocciolatura, sego di bovino (beef tallow, suet), grasso sciolto di carne cucinata, grasso di bovino (beef tallow, suet), gocciolante, gocciolamento (drip). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

淋漓たる (brimming), 淋漓 , 滴がたれる, 滴滴 , 滴り (a drop). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

したたり (a drop), りんりたる (brimming), りんり (ethics, morals), てきてき. (various references)

Korean 

물방울 (drippings, trickle). (various references)

Manx

geirr (fat, suet, tallow), faarney (drip, drop, Ferns, get in, leak, leakage), faarnagh (drippy, leaky, pervious), drigagh (drippy, droppy). (various references)

Pig Latin

ippingdray.(various references)

Portuguese

gotejamento (drip). (various references)

Romanian

de pe care curge apã, picurat, picurare (drip), picur, picãturã (drip, drop, ounce, speck, splash, sprinkle, sup), leoarcã, grãsime rãmasã de la carnea friptã, care picurã. (various references)

Russian 

капать капающий. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pokisao (sopping, wet), mokar (dabby, dank, soppy, wet), mast i sok od pečenja (drippings), koji kaplje (oozy), kapanje (drip). (various references)

Spanish

goteo (dribble, drip, leakage, trickle), pringue. (various references)

Swedish

droppande (dribble, weeping). (various references)

Turkish

damlayan şey (drip), damlama (drip, guttation, trickle), taşan (beetle, gushing, overflowing, overspilling), sırılsıklam (head over heels, like a drowned rat, soaking wet, sodden, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, wet through, wringing, wringing wet). (various references)

Ukrainian

що крапає, крапання (drip), просочування (imbibition, leakage, ooze, percolation, saturation, seepage), промоклий (saturated, sodden). (various references)

Vietnamese 

dầu chảy nhỏ giọt, sự chảy nhỏ giọt (drip), nhỏ giọt (stintingly), chảy nhỏ giọt ướt sũng, ướt đẫm (swimming). (various references)

Welsh

diferol (dropping), toddion. (various references)

stalaktos. (various references)

madidus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "dripping": drippings. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dripping" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: crippin, drepung, dripling, drippingly, drippng. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dipping, priding, ripping.

-2 letters: pidgin, piping, riding, riping.

-3 letters: grind, indri, iring, piing, rigid.

-4 letters: ding, drip, gird, girn, grid, grin, grip, irid, nidi, ping, pirn, prig, rind, ring.

-5 letters: dig, din, dip, gid, gin, gip, nip, pig, pin, pip, rid, rig, rin, rip.

+1 letter: drippings, redipping.

+3 letters: airdropping.

+4 letters: disappearing, disapproving, predisposing.