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# drip

«drip» in Mova's school dictionary: **to fall in small drops, or to let drops fall** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (drip, drips, dripped, dripping); noun (a drip, drips)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To drip means to fall in small drops, or to let drops fall. A dripping tap lets out water drop by drop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drip/#m1)

2) A drip is one drop, or the sound of drops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drip/#m2)

3) A drip in a hospital puts liquid slowly into a patient's body. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drip/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

maths: a rate of water lost or collected over time (amount = rate × time); science: the water cycle, icicles, saving water; everyday life: a dripping tap wastes water, paint drips; safety: wipe up drips so no one slips

### examples

- The tap drips 5 drops a second. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drip/#x1)
- Water drips into a bucket at 2 liters an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drip/#x2)
- How much water drips out in a day? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drip/#x3)
- 30 ml dripped from the bottle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drip/#x4)
- Fix the dripping tap to save water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drip/#x5)
- Rain dripped from the roof. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drip/#x6)
- The ice cream was dripping down my hand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drip/#x7)
- The nurse checked the patient's drip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drip/#x8)
- The water dripped from the straw mat which she had bound round her body, and from her gown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drip/#x9)

### note

A rate: amount = rate × time. Trap: change hours to minutes or a day to 24 hours when the units differ. A day has 24 hours. Double the p: dripped, dripping.

### In the corpora

- [Penguins can drink sea water, because a special gland above the eyes removes extra salt, which drips out from the beak.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/129-madagascar-real-penguins-and-chimps/11/)
- [Gulls can drink salt water, because glands above their eyes remove the salt and it drips out of their nose.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water/7/)
- [The Rat grips Toad by the scruff of the neck and hauls him up into his hall, dripping with mud and weed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them/0/)
- [A dripping tap wastes a lot of water over days, so tell a grown-up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/109-baths-water-and-doors/8/)
- [Stalactites hang from cave roofs and stalagmites grow up from the floor, built from dripping water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/55-coasts-and-caves/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «drip» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drip/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.