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Definition: Trickle |
TrickleNoun1. Flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid; "there's a drip through the roof". Verb1. Run or flow slowly, or in an unsteady stream: "reports began to dribble in.". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "trickle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Note: Trickle \Tric"kle\ (tr[i^]k"k'l), intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Trickled(tr[i^]k"k'ld); Trickling(tr[i^]k"kl[i^]ng).]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: TrickleSynonyms: drip (n), dribble (v), filter (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Egress | Exude, transude; leak, run through, out through; percolate, transcolate; egurgitate; strain, distill; perspire, sweat, drain, ooze; filter, filtrate; dribble, gush, spout, flow out; well, well out; pour, trickle; (water in motion); effuse, extravasate, disembogue, discharge itself, debouch; come forth, break forth; burst out, burst through; find vent; escape. |
River | Verb: flow, run; meander; gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue; drop, drip, dribble, plash, spirtle, trill, trickle, distill, percolate; stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash; guggle, murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgle, sputter, spurt, spray, regurgitate; ooze, flow out. (egress). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Trickle |
| English words defined with "trickle": Quick vinegar ♦ Sicker, stickily ♦ Tatta, Trickled, Trickling ♦ viscidly ♦ Yosemite, Yosemite Falls. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "trickle": Abracadabra ♦ Low-flow irrigation systems ♦ solution mining ♦ trickle loading, trickle system. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Her eyes went wonderingly to his bitten lip, and she saw the little line of blood against his teeth and the trickle of blood down his lip. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Drip or trickle irrigation is used in the South, especially in citrus orchards subject to late summer and autumn drought. (references) | |
Economic History | Uzbekistan | Uzbekistan's lack of currency convertibility has caused foreign investment inflows to dwindle to a trickle. (references) |
Burma | Since the Asian financial crisis, the trickle of new approved investment has predominantly come from Asian. (references) | |
Uzbekistan | Excessive irrigation using water from the Amu Daryo and Syr Daryo rivers has reduced their flow to the Aral Sea to a trickle. (references) | |
Political Economy | Israel | Tourism slowed to a trickle, however, after violence broke out in Israel and the territories in September 2000. The Treaty of Peace addresses boundary demarcations, water issues, police cooperation, environmental issues, transportation, and border crossings. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ABRACADABRA. By Abracadabra we signify An infinite number of things. 'Tis the answer to What? and How? and Why? And Whence? and Whither? -- a word whereby The Truth (with the comfort it brings) Is open to all who grope in night, Crying for Wisdom's holy light. Whether the word is a verb or a noun Is knowledge beyond my reach. I only know that 'tis handed down. From sage to sage, From age to age -- An immortal part of speech! Of an ancient man the tale is told That he lived to be ten centuries old, In a cave on a mountain side. (True, he finally died.) The fame of his wisdom filled the land, For his head was bald, and you'll understand His beard was long and white And his eyes uncommonly bright. Philosophers gathered from far and near To sit at his feat and hear and hear, Though he never was heard To utter a word But "Abracadabra, abracadab, Abracada, abracad, Abraca, abrac, abra, ab!" 'Twas all he had, 'Twas all they wanted to hear, and each Made copious notes of the mystical speech, Which they published next -- A trickle of text In the meadow of commentary. Mighty big books were these, In a number, as leaves of trees; In learning, remarkably -- very! He's dead, As I said, And the books of the sages have perished, But his wisdom is sacredly cherished. In Abracadabra it solemnly rings, Like an ancient bell that forever swings. O, I love to hear That word make clear Humanity's General Sense of Things. Jamrach Holobom |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Trickle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 77.09% of the time. "Trickle" is used about 371 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) | 77.09% | 286 | 17,222 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 17.25% | 64 | 42,009 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.66% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Total | 100.00% | 371 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "trickle": trickle away ♦ trickle charge ♦ trickle charger ♦ trickle collector ♦ trickle flow ♦ trickle in ♦ trickle loading ♦ trickle out ♦ trickle system ♦ trickle through. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "trickle": trickle-bar, trickle-charged, trickle-charger, trickle-down, trickle-on, trickle-through. | |
Ending with "trickle": blob-and-trickle, floating-trickle, water-trickle. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "trickle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rrymëzë, rrjedh (accrue, arise, come, come from, course, derive, descend, dote, escape, flow, flow down, flow from, flux, leak, ooze, outflow, proceed, pump, result, run, spring), pikoj (blob, dapple, distil, distill, dribble, drip, drizzle, drop, leak, ooze). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مجرى هزيل, نقط (dapple, dot, fleck, mottle, pit, point, punctuate, speck, speckle, sprinkle, stipple), قطر (country, distil, dribble, drip, drop, land, percolate, rain, region, territory, tow, towing, trail, tug), وفد شيئا فشيئا, تقطر (distil, drip, dripping, percolate), سال هزيلا, جعله يقطر (drizzle), رشح (basing, distil, filter, filtrate, infiltrate, leach, leak, leakage, lixiviate, nominate, ooze, ooze away, percolate, secrete, seep, still, sweat, transpiration, transpire), دلف (draggle, dripping, leak, leakage, seepage, spring a leak, toddle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | чезна (die away, diminish, fade, fade away, languish, peak and pine, pine, recede, tail away, vanish, wane, waste, wear away, wither), тънка струйка (thread), капене (dribble, drip), малък брой (fewness, scattering, sprinkling), малко количество (bit, dab, dash, dollop, dreg, dribblet, drop, jot, modicum, nibble, pennyworth, relish, scantling, smatter, soupcon, sprinkling, thimbleful, tot), едва-едва тека, бавно струене, бавно и недостатъчно снабдяване, идвам бавно, движа се бавно (jog, labor, labour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 细流, 潺 (flow), 滴流 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | stružka (gutter), pramínek (wisp), kapat (dribble, drip, drop, leak), kanutí, kanout, hrstka (handful, sprinkling), crèet, crèení. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | vedligeholdesesladning (trickle charge), sivelag (trickle bed), sive igennem (to trickle through), rislepanelsolfanger (trickle collector, trickling water collector, water-trickle collector, water-trickle solar collector), perkolationslag (trickle bed), kompensationslader (trickle-charger), drypslange (trickle hose). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | trickle-down effect (Trickle-down effect), trickle bed (trickle bed), zonnecollector met watergootjes (trickle collector, trickling water collector, water-trickle collector, water-trickle solar collector), open gootcollector (trickle collector, trickling water collector, water-trickle collector, water-trickle solar collector), neerwaartse druppelstroming (trickle-bed flow), neerdruipen (drain, drip down, trickle down), kompensatielader (trickle-charger), druppelleiding (trickle hose), druppelcollector (trickle collector, trickling water collector, water-trickle collector, water-trickle solar collector), druppelbuis (trickle tube), doorsijpelingseffect (trickle-down effect), doorsijpelen (to trickle through), compensatielading (trickle charge), compensatielader (trickle-charger), afdruipen (drain, drip down, slink off, trickle down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | deguti (drain, drip down, trickle down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | چکیدن (Drip, Drop, Lave, Plash), چکه (Drip, Drop, Leak, Leakage, Seep, Seepage, Sprinkle), چکانیدن (Dribble, Drip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tihkua (exude, ooze, seep), pursuta (ooze out), kihota (ooze), herua (ooze), herahtaa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | toucher les plus pauvre, tomber goutte goutte, suinter, suintement, s'écouler doucement, ruisseau, faire dégouliner, faire couler goutte goutte, dégouliner, commencer faire eau, égouttement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | tröpfeln (dribble, drip, dripping, run, to dribble, to drip, to trickle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στάζω (burst, dribble, drip, drop, leak, ooze, seep, trill), σταλάζω (drip, drop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לזלו' (drip, flow, pour, stream, water), ל"לוף (drip, leak, ooze), פכפוך (bubbling, dripping, flow, gush, percolation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szivárgás (bleed, leak, leakage, ooze, seepage), vékony erecske. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | gerabak (flow), cucur (a flow), berhamburan (spread everywhere, straggly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ruscelletto (rill, streamlet), gocciolare (drip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 垂れる (to confer, to dangle, to drip, to droop, to drop, to give, to hang, to leave behind, to lower, to ooze, to pull down, to sag, to trickle), 滴り落ちる (to trickle down), 滴る (to drip, to drop, to trickle), ぽたぽた落ちる (bit by bit, chubby, cloop, crunching sound, dabble in water, fat, having just ..., in large drops, merely, piece by piece, pimples, plop, plump, pop, splash water, spots, to drip down, to fall in drops, to trickle down, trickle down in thick drops, with a pop), 一筋の涙 (a trickle of tears). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たれる (to confer, to dangle, to drip, to droop, to drop, to give, to hang, to leave behind, to lower, to ooze, to pull down, to sag, to trickle), したたりおちる (to trickle down), したたる (to drip, to drop, to trickle), ひとすじのなみ (a trickle of tears), ぽたぽたおちる (to drip down, to fall in drops, to trickle down), ぽとぽと (trickle down in thick drops). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 물방울 (Dripping, drippings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sheeley (clarify, clear, discharge, distil, drain, draw, dribble, drip, extract, filter, flow, gravitate, gutter, insemination, instil, Julia, leach, ooze, percolate, refine, run, seep, soil, strain, weep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ickletray pingo (dribble, drip, drop, gout, touch), pingar (drip, drop, weep), gotejar (dribble, drip, drop, gutter, run), gota (arthritis, bead, blob, dribble, drip, drop, drop of water, droplet, minim, podagra, tear), fio de água, correr num fio, cair em gotas. (various references) târâi (chirr, reel, ring), se prelinge (drip, ooze, seep), prelingere a unui lichid, prelinge, picura (distil, dribble, drop, instil, let drop, vibrate). (various references) струйка (plume), сочиться (distil, ooze, trickle down), лить тонкой струйкой. (various references) kapljati (dribble), kapljanje (dribble), curiti (dribble, drip, leak, ooze, seep, water), cureti (leak), curenje (drip, leak, leakage, ooze, seepage). (various references) goteo (dribble, drip, dripping, leakage). (various references) sippra (filter, ooze, percolate), drypa (dribble, drip, drop). (various references) yuvarlanmak (bowl, roll, roll over, roll up, shoot, trundle, trundle along, tumble, wallow, welter, wheel), yavaş yavaş çıkmak, sızmak (creep, effuse, emanate, escape, exude, filter out, infiltrate, leak, leak out, ooze, ooze out, percolate, permeate, run, run out, seep, transpire, transude, weep), damlatmak (distil, dribble, drop, instil, instill), damlamak (blow in, come in suddenly, dribble, drip, drop, drop around, drop in, fall off, happen in, weep), damlama (drip, dripping, guttation), damla damla akmak (drip), damla damla akan şey, akıtmak (disembogue, drain, drain away, drain off, drip, funnel, pour, shed, spill, stream, weep). (various references) струмочок (brooklet, rill, runlet, runnel), цівка, текти тонкою цівкою. (various references) tia nhỏ (tricklet). (various references) defni (drip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | decollatorum, decollatum, decollavi, decollavit. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "trickle": trickled, trickledown, trickles. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "trickle": strickle. (additional references) | |
Words containing "trickle": strickled, strickles. (additional references) | |
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"Trickle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atrickle, Otricoli, rickle, thickle, Trankle, trauchle, trecle, treekle, trickee, trickly, trikle, trinckle, Trinkle, triscale, trisle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "trickle" (pronounced tri"kul) |
| 5 | -r i" k u l | brickle. |
| 4 | -i" k u l | fickle, Mickle, nickel, Nickle, Nicol, pickle, sickle, stickle, tickle. |
| 3 | -k u l | acoustical, aeronautical, agrochemical, allegorical, alphabetical, analytical, anarchical, anatomical, ankle, anthropological, antithetical, apolitical, archaeological, archeological, article, astrological, astronautical, astronomical, asymmetrical, atypical, autobiographical, barnacle, biblical, bicycle, bifocal, biochemical, biographical, biological, biomedical, biotechnological, botanical, buckle, cackle, categorical, cervical, chemical, Chronicle, chronological, chuckle, circle, classical, clavicle, clerical, clinical, comical, commonsensical, conical, coracle, cortical, crackle, critical, cubicle, cuticle, cycle, cyclical, cylindrical, cynical, debacle, dermatological, diabolical, diacritical, dialectical, domical, ducal, ecclesiastical, ecological, economical, ecumenical, egotistical, electrical, electrochemical, electromechanical, elliptical, empirical, encircle, encyclical, epidemiological, epochal, equivocal, eschatological, ethical, ethnical, etymological, evangelical, fanatical, farcical, fecal, fiscal, focal, follicle, freckle, galenical, geographical, geological, geometrical, geophysical, geopolitical, gonococcal, grackle, grammatical, granduncle, graphical, gynecological, hackle, heckle, helical, heretical, heterocercal, hierarchical, historical, honeysuckle, Huckle, hypercritical, hypocritical, hypothetical, hysterical, icicle, identical, ideological, illogical, immunological, impractical, inimical, ironical, jackal, knuckle, lackadaisical, lexical, liturgical, local, logical, logistical, lyrical, magical, maniacal, mathematical, matriarchal, mechanical, medical, meikle, metallurgical, metaphorical, metaphysical, meteorological, methodical, methodological, metrical, miracle, monocle, morphological, motorcycle, muckle, musical, mystical, mythical, mythological, nautical, neoclassical, neurological, nonelectrical, nonpolitical, nonsensical, nonsurgical, nontechnical, numerical, obstacle, ontological, optical, Oracle, oratorical, ornithological, paradoxical, particle, pathological, patriarchal, pedagogical, periodical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, pharmacological, philosophical, phonological, photochemical, physical, physiological, pinnacle, polemical, political, pontifical, popsicle, practical, preclinical, problematical, prototypical, psychical, psychological, pumpernickel, puritanical, quizzical, rabbinical, radical, radiological, ramshackle, rankle, rascal, receptacle, reciprocal, recycle, rhetorical, ruckle, runkle, sabbatical, satirical, semiclassical, semicylindrical, semitropical, serological, shackle, shekel, skeptical, sociological, Sokol, sparkle, speckle, spectacle, spherical, sprinkle, statistical, stereotypical, strategical, suckle, surgical, symmetrical, tabernacle, tackle, tactical, technical, technological, teleological, tentacle, testicle, theatrical, theological, theoretical, tinkle, topical, toxicological, tricycle, tropical, twinkle, typical, typographical, tyrannical, umbilical, uncle, uncritical, uneconomical, unequivocal, unethical, unicycle, unshackle, untypical, vehicle, vertical, viatical, virological, vocal, whimsical, Winkle, wrinkle, zoological. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tickler. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-k-l-r-t" | |
-1 letter: kilter, kirtle, licker, relict, ticker, tickle. | |
-2 letters: citer, clerk, icker, kiter, liker, liter, litre, recti, relic, relit, telic, tiler, trice, trick, trike. | |
-3 letters: ceil, celt, cire, cite, clit, etic, keir, kier, kilt, kite, lice, lick, lier, like, lire, lite, reck, rice, rick, riel, rile, rite, tick, tier, tike, tile, tire, tirl, trek. | |
-4 letters: cel. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-k-l-r-t" | |
+1 letter: stickler, strickle, ticklers, trickled, trickles. | |
+2 letters: interlock, sticklers, strickled, strickles, tricklier, truckline. | |
+3 letters: bootlicker, clerkliest, crackliest, craterlike, crinkliest, freckliest, interlocks, politicker, prickliest, retackling, stockpiler, trancelike, trickliest, trucklines. | |
+4 letters: blacklister, bootlickers, cartoonlike, factorylike, interlocked, latticework, ostrichlike, politickers, rickettsial, stockpilers, trickledown. | |
+5 letters: blacklisters, computerlike, interlocking, latticeworks, multitracked, postcardlike, stickhandler. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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