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dribble
English
Etymology
drib +? -le (early modern English frequentative suffix)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d??.b?l/, /d??.bl?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?d??.b??/, /?d??.b(?)l/
- Rhymes: -?b?l
Verb
dribble (third-person singular simple present dribbles, present participle dribbling, simple past and past participle dribbled)
- (basketball, soccer) In various ball games, to move (with) the ball, controlling its path by kicking or bouncing it repeatedly
- To let saliva drip from the mouth, to drool
- To fall in drops or an unsteady stream, to trickle
- (transitive) To let something fall in drips.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants
- let her [the cook] follow him softly with a ladle full, and dribble it all the way up stairs to the dining-room
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants
- (dated) To live or pass one's time in a trivial fashion.
- To perform a card flourish in which the cards fall smoothly from one's hand.
Descendants
- ? Czech: driblovat
- ? French: dribbler
Translations
Noun
dribble (countable and uncountable, plural dribbles)
- (uncountable) Drool; saliva.
- (countable) A weak, unsteady stream; a trickle.
- (countable) A small amount of a liquid.
- (countable, sports) The act of moving (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it.
- (countable) A card flourish in which the cards fall smoothly from one's hand.
Translations
Related terms
- crossover dribble
- double dribble
- dribble glass
- dribble penetration
- dribbly
- kill one's dribble
Anagrams
- dibbler
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English dribble.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?ibl/
Noun
dribble m (plural dribbles)
- (sports) dribble
Verb
dribble
- first-person singular present indicative of dribbler
- third-person singular present indicative of dribbler
- first-person singular present subjunctive of dribbler
- third-person singular present subjunctive of dribbler
- second-person singular imperative of dribbler
German
Verb
dribble
- inflection of dribbeln:
- first-person singular present
- singular imperative
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
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leak
English
Etymology
From Middle English leken (“to let water in or out”), from Middle Dutch leken (“to leak, drip”) or Old Norse leka (“to leak, drip”); both from Proto-Germanic *lekan? (“to leak, drain”), from Proto-Indo-European *leg-, *le?- (“to leak”).
Cognate with Dutch lekken (“to leak”), German lechen, lecken (“to leak”), Swedish läcka (“to leak”), Icelandic leka (“to leak”). Related also to Old English le??an (“to water, wet”), Albanian lag, lak (“I damp, make wet”). See also leach, lake.
Pronunciation
- enPR: l?k, IPA(key): /li?k/
- Rhymes: -i?k
- Homophone: leek
Noun
leak (plural leaks)
- A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
- a leak in a roof
- a leak in a boat
- a leak in a gas pipe
- The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
- The leak gained on the ship's pumps.
- The babies' diapers had big leaks.
- A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.
- The leaks by Chelsea Manning showed the secrets of the US military.
- The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.
- The press must have learned about the plan through a leak.
- A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.
- (computing) The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
- resource leak
- memory leak
- (vulgar, slang, especially with the verb "take") An act of urination.
- I have to take a leak.
Derived terms
- gas leak
- leaky
- memory leak
Translations
Verb
leak (third-person singular simple present leaks, present participle leaking, simple past and past participle leaked)
- (transitive, intransitive) To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.
- (intransitive) (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.
- (intransitive, figuratively, by extension) To pass through when it would normally or preferably be blocked.
- 1989, Kenneth N. Luongo, ?W. Thomas Wander, The Search for Security in Space (page 149)
- A target that is not detected would not be intercepted and thus would leak through the single defensive layer.
- 1989, Kenneth N. Luongo, ?W. Thomas Wander, The Search for Security in Space (page 149)
- (transitive, figuratively, by extension) To allow anything through that would normally or preferably be blocked.
Translations
Adjective
leak (comparative more leak, superlative most leak)
- (obsolete) Leaky.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.8:
- Yet is the bottle leake, and bag so torne, / That all which I put in fals out anon […].
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.8:
Anagrams
- Akel, Alek, Kale, Lake, ka le, kale, lake
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /li?k/
Verb
leak
- singular imperative of leaken
- (colloquial) first-person singular present of leaken
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