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Dripper vs Dripped – What’s the difference?

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Dripper vs Dripped - What's the difference?
As a noun dripper is agent noun of drip; one who drips.

As a verb dripped is (drip).

dripper

English

Noun

(en noun )

  • Agent noun of drip; one who drips.

    • English agent nouns

    dripped

    English

    Verb

    (head)

  • (drip)


    • drip

    English

    (wikipedia drip )

    Verb

    (dripp)

  • To fall one drop at a time.
  • To leak slowly.
  • To let fall in drops.
  • * (Jonathan Swift)
    • Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain.
  • * , chapter=8

    • , title= Mr. Pratt’s Patients
    , passage=Philander went into the next room

  • To have a superabundance of valuable things.
  • (of the weather) To rain lightly.
  • To be wet, to be soaked.

    • Derived terms

    * dripper

    Noun

    (en noun )

  • A drop of a liquid.
    • I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.
  • (medicine) 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 .
  • (colloquial) A limp, ineffectual, boring or otherwise uninteresting person.
    • He couldn’t even summon up the courage to ask her name… what a drip !
  • A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
  • * Byron
    • the light drip of the suspended oar
  • (architecture) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.

    • Derived terms

    *

    Acronym

    (Acronym)
    (head)

  • (finance) Dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing

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