different between exude vs trickle

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

Etymology

Originally of tears; from strickle, frequentative of to strike, by elision (probably because tears trickle is easier to pronounce than tears strickle).

For other similar cases of incorrect division, see also apron, daffodil, newt, nickname, orange, umpire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??k?l/
• Rhymes: -?k?l

Noun

trickle (plural trickles)

1. A very thin river.

   The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.

2. A very thin flow; the act of trickling.

   The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.

   • 1897, James Bryce, Impressions of South Africa

     The streams that run south and east from the mountains to the coast are short and rapid torrents after a storm, but at other times dwindle to feeble trickles of mud.

Translations

Verb

trickle (third-person singular simple present trickles, present participle trickling, simple past and past participle trickled)

1. (transitive) to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously.

   The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.

2. (intransitive) to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously.

   Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.

   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21

     Her white night-dress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man's bare chest which was shown by his torn-open dress.
3. (intransitive) To move or roll slowly.

Derived terms

• trickle truth

Translations

Anagrams

• tickler