different between dripping vs ointment

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??p??/
• Rhymes: -?p??

Noun

dripping (countable and uncountable, plural drippings)

1. Solid animal fat, traditionally collected from dripping off roasting meat.
2. The sound or action of something that drips.

3. The use of a drip tip to drip e-liquid directly onto the atomizer of an e-cigarette.

Derived terms

• dripping pan

Translations

Verb

dripping

1. present participle of drip

English

Alternative forms

• oyntment (obsolete)

Etymology

A later form (as if oint +? -ment) of Middle English oinement, borrowed from Old French oignement (“an anointing”), from oigner, oindre, ongier (“to anoint”), from Latin ung(u)? (“I anoint”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eng?- (“to smear, anoint”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???ntm(?)nt/, [?????(n)?.m??(n)?]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???n(t)m(?)nt/
• Hyphenation: oint?ment

Noun

ointment (plural ointments)

1. (medicine) A viscous preparation of oils and/or fats, usually containing medication, used as a treatment or as an emollient.
2. A substance used to anoint, as in religious rituals.

Synonyms

• salve
• unguent

Derived terms

• fly in the ointment
• ointmentlike

Related terms

Translations

See also

• cream
• inunction
• liniment
• unction
• unctuous
• unguent

Further reading

• ointment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ointment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• ointment at OneLook Dictionary Search