drip : Idioms & Phrases


drip coffee

  • noun coffee made by passing boiling water through a perforated container packed with finely ground coffee
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drip culture

  • noun a hydroponic method of growing plants by allowing nutrient solutions to drip slowly onto an inert medium in which the plants are growing
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drip feed

  • noun the administration of a solution (blood or saline or plasma etc.) one drop at a time
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drip loop

  • noun a downward hanging loop in a line that runs to a building
    • when it rained water would fall from the drip loop before it reached the building
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drip mat

  • noun a small mat placed under a glass to protect a surface from condensation
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drip mold

  • noun (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway)
    drip; drip mold.
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drip mould

  • noun (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway)
    drip; drip mold.
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drip pan

  • noun pan for catching drippings under roasting meat
    drip pan.
  • noun pan under a refrigerator for collecting liquid waste
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drip pot

  • noun a coffeepot for making drip coffee
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drip-dry

  • verb dry by hanging up wet
  • adjective satellite treated so as to be easily or quickly washed and dried and requiring little or no ironing
    wash-and-wear.
    • a wash-and-wear shirt
  • adjective satellite used of fabrics that do not require ironing
    permanent-press.
    • drip-dry shirts for travel
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dripping pan

  • noun pan for catching drippings under roasting meat
    drip pan.
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intravenous drip

  • noun slow continuous drip introducing solutions intravenously (a drop at a time)
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postnasal drip

  • noun chronic secretion of mucus from the rear of the nasal cavity into the nasopharynx
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Right of drip

  • (Law), an easement or servitude by which a man has the right to have the water flowing from his house fall on the land of his neighbor.
Webster 1913