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# trickle

«trickle» in Mova's school dictionary: **for a liquid to flow slowly in a thin line or small drops** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (trickle, trickles, trickled, trickling); noun (a trickle, trickles)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To trickle is for a liquid to flow slowly in a thin line or small drops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickle/#m1)

2) To trickle is also for people or things to come or go slowly, a few at a time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickle/#m2)

3) A trickle is a thin slow flow of liquid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickle/#m3)

4) A trickle is also a small number of people or things arriving slowly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickle/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science: water trickling through soil or rocks, a stream as a trickle in summer. In everyday life: «trickle in», «trickle out» for people arriving or leaving slowly. In stories it makes the reader see small, slow movement: a trickle of blood, sweat or tears. Phrases: «trickle down», «a trickle of», «slow to a trickle».

### examples

- A trickle of water ran down the window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickle/#x1)
- Sweat trickled down his face in the heat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickle/#x2)
- The pupils trickled into class after lunch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickle/#x3)
- In summer the river is only a trickle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickle/#x4)
- Sand trickled through her fingers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickle/#x5)
- Letters from fans came in at a trickle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickle/#x6)
- Rain trickled through the cracks in the roof. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickle/#x7)
- The water trickled down the naked sides of the rocks, and snow lay thickly all around. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickle/#x8)

### note

Regular verb: «trickled», «trickling» (drop the e). A trickle is slower and smaller than a stream or a flow; a «gush» is the opposite. Countable as a noun: «a trickle».

### In the corpora

- [He bindeth the streams that they trickle not; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.704/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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