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Image:Water drop animation enhanced small.gif|right|thumb|Drips dripping from a [[faucet]]
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ɪp|-ɪp

Verb
en-verb|drip|p|ed

1. to leak slowly

#:Does the sink drip?

1. to put a small amount of a liquid on something, drop by drop

#:After putting oil on the side of the salad, the chef should drip a little vinegar in the oil.

Translations
trans-top|to leak slowly
Czech: kapat
Finnish: tippua, tihkua
German: tropfen
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trans-top|to put a small amount of a liquid on something, drop by drop
Finnish: pisaroida
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Noun
en-noun

1. a drop of a liquid

#: I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa

1. an apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream (an intravenous drip)

#: He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip.

1. colloquial a limp, ineffectual, boring or otherwise uninteresting person

#: He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!

1. dividend|Dividend Reinvestment Program; a type of financial investing

Translations
trans-top|a drop of a liquid
Finnish: pisara, tippa
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trans-top|a boring or otherwise uninteresting person
Finnish: tylsimys
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trans-top|Dividend Reinvestment Program
Finnish: tylsimys
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Category:Liquids

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