Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or sound of something falling in drops.
- noun The fat and juices exuded from roasting meat, often used in making gravy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which falls in drops; specifically, the fat which falls from meat in roasting: commonly in the plural.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A falling in drops, or the sound so made.
- noun That which falls in drops, as fat from meat in roasting.
- noun a pan for receiving the fat which drips from meat in roasting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Solid animal fat, traditionally collected from dripping off roasting meat.
- verb Present participle of
drip .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a liquid (as water) that flows in drops (as from the eaves of house)
- noun the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop
- adverb extremely wet
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Examples
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All one needs do is follow the link Egnor gives to PZ's post, with a title dripping with sarcasm: "The Great Desecration," to see just the opposite:
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Michael brought him the song of the first wood thrush to sing in the spring of 1847, a jumprope song sung by some children on Summer Street, and the sound of water dripping from a spiderweb after a rainstorm.
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These phrases, and the condescension dripping from the article generally, can easily be removed without losing anything.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Shedding Light on the AZ Immigration Law 2010
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I look down and realize that my once white t-shirt is now in dripping crimson shreds.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Thablue’s Review Forum 2009
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A sea of vegetation laved the landscape, pouring its green billows from wall to wall, dripping from the cliff-lips in great vine-masses, and flinging a spray of ferns and air-plants in to the multitudinous crevices.
Koolau the Leper 2010
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Taylor, blood dripping from the bullet wound in his shoulder, stepped forward slowly, but it was too late.
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Pieces of burning metal had begun dripping from the hold in the side of the building where the hov disappeared, splashing the roadway with a deadly mix of “death by chemical fumes” and “death by being burned alive.”
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Lucrezia now appears to be less the bride of Bartolomeo than the bride of Christ – the red of her dress matching the blood dripping from the base of the cross.
Bronzino's Medici portraits – review James Hall 2010
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Head and head of empire soldiers becut in dripping blood, then threw out to universe.
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Elsewhere he emerges limp and dripping from a lake, the opposite of a triumphant James Bond coming to shore.
Meet the best new artists in Britain Kate Kellaway 2010
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