different between drip vs sob

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English drippen, druppen, from Old English dryppan, from Proto-Germanic *drupjan? (“to fall in drops, drip”), from Proto-Germanic *drupô (“drop”). Akin to West Frisian drippe (“to drip”),Dutch druipen, druppelen (“to drip”), German Low German drüppen (“to drip”), German tropfen, tröpfeln (“to drip”), Norwegian Bokmål dryppe, Norwegian Nynorsk drypa (“to drip”).

Verb

drip (third-person singular simple present drips, present participle dripping, simple past and past participle dripped)

1. (intransitive) To fall one drop at a time.

2. (intransitive) To leak slowly.

3. (transitive) To let fall in drops.
   • c. 1726, Alexander Pope (probable author), The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch

     Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain.
4. (intransitive, usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.

5. (intransitive, of the weather) To rain lightly.

6. (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked.
7. (Britain, naval slang, intransitive) To whine or complain consistently; to grumble.
   • 1995, Sue Innes, Making it work: women, change and challenge in the 1990s (page 21)

     The Women's Royal Naval Service was integrated with the Royal Navy in November 1993. […] Men interviewed by Public Eye (April, 1994) said they should 'stop dripping about it' and that women should learn to 'take it like a man […]

   • 2012, I. H. Milburn, Falklands War - Get STUFT

     The government had been slowly running down the Royal Navy Organisation to save money on various peoples' budgets, so now we had to sub-contract ships to go to war! So stop dripping and "make it so", all those admirals can't be wrong!

Derived terms

• bedrip
• dripper
• dripple

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English drippe, from the verb (see above). Compare West Frisian drip (“drip”), Dutch drup (“drip”), Danish dryp (“drip”).

Noun

drip (plural drips)

1. A drop of a liquid.

   I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.

2. A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
3. (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.

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

4. (colloquial) A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.

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

5. (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

• drip irrigation

Translations

Etymology 3

Acronym.

Noun

drip

1. (finance) A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s?b/
• (General American) enPR: säb, IPA^(key): /s?b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Etymology 1

Perhaps of Dutch or Low German origin; compare with Dutch dialect sabben 'to suck'.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

sob (plural sobs)

1. A cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath.
2. (onomatopoeia) sound of sob
   • 1874, George Carter Stent, The Jade Chaplet in Twenty-four Beads:

     “My husband, alas! whom I now (sob, sob) mourn,
     A short time since (sob) to this grave (sob) was borne;
     And (sob) he lies buried in this (sob, sob) grave.”

Derived terms

• sobby
• sob story
• sob stuff

Translations

Verb

sob (third-person singular simple present sobs, present participle sobbing, simple past and past participle sobbed)

1. (intransitive) to weep with convulsive gasps.

   • She sigh'd, she sobb'd, and, furious with despair, / She rent her garments, and she tore her hair.

2. (transitive) to say (something) while sobbing.

   "He doesn't love me!" she sobbed.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:weep

Translations

Etymology 2

See sop.

Verb

sob (third-person singular simple present sobs, present participle sobbing, simple past and past participle sobbed)

1. To soak.

Anagrams

• BOS, BSO, Bos., OBs, OSB, Obs, bos, obs

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sop/

Noun

sob m

1. reindeer (an Arctic and Subarctic-dwelling deer)

Declension

Further reading

• sob in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• sob in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sob/
• Hyphenation: sob

Adverb

sob

1. (nonstandard) down, downwards (direction to the center of the Earth)

Synonyms

• malsupren (“down, downwards”)

Antonyms

• supren (“up, upwards”)
• (neologism, nonstandard) sor (“up, upwards”)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese sob, so, su, from Latin sub, from Proto-Italic *supo, from Proto-Indo-European *upo (“under, below”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sob/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?so.bi/, /sob/
• Hyphenation: sob

Preposition

sob

1. under

Antonyms

• sobre

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

sob m (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. reindeer

See also

• irvas/?????

Tzotzil

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??m?/

Noun

sob

1. early morning

Adjective

sob

1. of early morning

References

• Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Volapük

Noun

sob (nominative plural sobs)

1. soap

Declension