different between trickle vs floe
trickle
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)
- A very thin river.
- The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.
- 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)
- (transitive) to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously.
- The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.
- (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.
- (intransitive) To move or roll slowly.
Derived terms
- trickle truth
Translations
Anagrams
- tickler
trickle From the web:
- what trickle charger do i need
- what trickles
- what trickle charging mean
- what trickle means
- what trickle charger to buy
- what's trickle charge
- what's trickle down economics
- what trickles from those scars
floe
English
Etymology
Early 19th century. Probably from Norwegian flo (“layer, slab”), from Old Norse fló (“layer”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /fl??/
- Homophones: flow, Flo
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
floe (plural floes)
- A low, flat mass of floating ice.
- Synonym: ice floe
Translations
References
- American Heritage Dictionary
Anagrams
- lofe
floe From the web:
- what flies without wings
- what flies
- what flies in the thermosphere
- what flies in the sky
- what flies in the stratosphere
- what flies when it is born
- what flies eat
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