different between drizzle vs undefined

English

Etymology

Perhaps a back-formation from dryseling, a dissimilated variant of Middle English drysning (“a falling of dew”), from Old English drysnan (“to extinguish”), related to Old English dr?osan (“to fall, to decline”), making it cognate to modern English droze and drowse. Compare also dialectal Swedish drösla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??z.l/
• Rhymes: -?z?l
• Hyphenation: driz?zle

Verb

drizzle (third-person singular simple present drizzles, present participle drizzling, simple past and past participle drizzled)

1. (impersonal) To rain lightly.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.
   • 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender, London, Januarye, Aegloga prima,^[1]

     And from mine eyes the drizling teares descend,

     As on your boughes the ysicles depend.

   • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene 5,^[2]

     When the sun sets, the air doth drizzle dew;

     But for the sunset of my brother’s son

     It rains downright.

3. (cooking, transitive) To pour slowly and evenly, especially oil or honey in cooking.

4. (cooking, transitive) To cover by pouring in this manner.

5. (slang) To urinate. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
6. (dated) To carry out parfilage, the process of unravelling.

Translations

Noun

drizzle (countable and uncountable, plural drizzles)

1. Light rain.
2. (physics, weather) Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground.

3. (slang) Water.

4. (baking) A cake onto which icing, honey or syrup has been drizzled in an artistic manner.
   • April 19, 2013,Felicity Cloake, "How to Cook the Perfect Lemon Drizzle Cake" in The Guardian

     Drizzle is not normally good news. Not when it's falling from the sky, not when it's replacing a decent helping of sauce, and especially not when it's found on a menu in close proximity to the words "balsamic vinegar". Deliciously sticky, sweet and sour lemon drizzle cake is the one, and very honourable, exception.

Derived terms

• drizzly
• drizzler

Translations

Anagrams

• rizzled

English

Etymology

un- +? defined

Adjective

undefined (not comparable)

1. Lacking a definition or value.
2. (mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.

   The result of division by zero is undefined.

Synonyms

• (lacking a definition or value): indefinite, undefinable; see also Thesaurus:indistinct or Thesaurus:vague

Antonyms

• defined

Translations