Tra từ drip - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

drip [drip drips dripped dripping] verb, noun BrE [drɪp] NAmE [drɪp]
verb (-pp-)
1. intransitive (+ adv./prep.) (of liquid)to fall in small drops
•She was hot and sweat dripped into her eyes.
•Water was dripping down the walls.
2. intransitive, transitive to produce drops of liquid
•The tap was dripping.
•+ adv./prep. Her hair dripped down her back.
•~ sth (+adv./prep.) Be careful, you're dripping paint everywhere!
3. intransitive, transitive to contain or hold a lot of sth
•~ with sth The trees were dripping with fruit.
•~ sth His voice dripped sarcasm.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Old English dryppan, drȳpen, of Germanic origin; related to Danish dryppe, also to ↑drop.

Example Bank:
•Be careful, you're dripping paint everywhere!
•The rain came down and dripped off the edges of the car.
•Water dripped from the tap.

noun
1. singular the sound or action of small drops of liquid falling continuously
•The silence was broken only by the steady drip, drip of water from the roof.
2. countable a small drop of liquid that falls from sth
•We put a bucket under the hole in the roof to catch the drips.
3. (NAmE also IV)countable (medical)a piece of equipment that passes liquid food, medicine or blood very slowly through a tube into a patient's ↑vein
•She's been put on a drip.
4. countable (informal, becoming old-fashioned)a boring or stupid person with a weak personality
Syn: ↑wimp
•Don't be such a drip— come and join in the fun!

Word Origin:
Old English dryppan, drȳpen, of Germanic origin; related to Danish dryppe, also to ↑drop.

Example Bank:
•He is on a saline drip.
•He was taken off his drip last night.
•There were buckets to catch the drips from the ceiling.
•drips from the tap
•the steady drip of water from the tap
•The silence was broken only by the steady drip, drip of water the rood.

See also: ↑IV