different between exude vs drip

English

Etymology

Latin exudare, exsudare (“to sweat out”), from ex- (“out, out of”) + sudare (“to sweat”), from sudor "sweat"

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /???zud/, /?k?sud/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /???zju?d/

Verb

exude (third-person singular simple present exudes, present participle exuding, simple past and past participle exuded)

1. (transitive) To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out.
   • 1870, William Henry Wilkins, The Romance of Isabel

     There are five hundred and fifty-five trees, and they exude the sweetest odours

2. (intransitive) To flow out through the pores.
   • 2013, Vladimir G. Plekhanov, Applications of the Isotopic Effect in Solids (page 258)

     The molten glass exudes into the space outside the outer crucible, and a filament is pulled from the exudant to form a cored glass fiber.

Derived terms

• exudation

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “exude”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• DExEU

Spanish

Verb

exude

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of exudar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of exudar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of exudar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of exudar.

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.

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