Drip

Definition

drip /drÇp/ v ( -pp- ) (က) တစ္စက္တစ္စက္က်သည္။ Rain was dripping (down) from the trees. (ခ) တစက္စက္ယိုသည္။ Is that roof still dripping? ❍ a dripping tap ❍ He was dripping blood (onto the floor). n ၁။ (က) [sing] တစက္စက္က်ျခင္း။ the steady drip of water from a leaky tap. (ခ) [C] အစက္။ အေပါက္။ The roof is leaking again—get a bucket to catch the drips. ၂။ (also dripfeed ) [C] ( medical ) လူနာ၏ေသြးေၾကာတြင္းသို႔ အရည္ သြင္းေပးသည့္ ပိုက္ကိရိယာ။ put sb on a drip (ie fit such a device to a patient). ၃။ [C] ( sl ) ႏံုေသာ၊ အေသာ၊ လူေတာမတိုးဝံ့သူ။ Don't be such a drip! Come and join in the fun. ❏ drip-dry adj (ေလွ်ာ္ၿပီး ညႇစ္စရာ၊ မီးပူတိုက္စရာ မလိုေသာ) အေျခာက္ျမန္ အဝတ္အစား။ a drip-dry shirt/fabric. ❏ dripping adj ~ ( with sth ) ရႊဲရႊဲစိုေသာ။ Her clothes were still dripping wet. ❍ Their faces were dripping with sweat. ❍ ( fig ) dripping with jewels. ရတနာမ်ားျဖင့္ သီးေနေသာ။ Compare WRINGING WET

Examples

1. Red paint had dripped on the floor.
2. Sweat was dripping down his face.
3. Drip some wax onto the paper to make a seal.
4. The tap was dripping.