单词 | trickle |
释义 | trickle (once / 949 pages) vn To trickle is to weakly flow out of something, like a faucet. A trickle is like a drip. There are a lot of ways water can flow, but one type of slow dripping is called trickling. If your shower is only releasing a trickle of water, you're not going to get much of a shower. If it's raining — but only a trickle — you might not need an umbrella. A slightly leaky roof is trickling. A trickle is the opposite of a downpour or flood. Trickling can also be called dribbling. WORD FAMILYtrickle: trickled, trickles, trickling USAGE EXAMPLESIn some of the country’s more expensive markets, the slowdown at the top end is showing signs of trickling down to more average-priced apartments. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) As his grand year trickles to its final hours, James isn’t looking too far ahead. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) Such increasingly common dismissals of spiritual existence trickle into popular thought and even into everyday language. Wall Street Journal(Dec 29, 2016) 1v run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose Syn|Hypo|Hyper dribble, filter leach, percolate permeate or penetrate gradually course, feed, flow, run move along, of liquids 2n flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid Syn|Hypo|Hyper dribble, drip intravenous drip slow continuous drip introducing solutions intravenously (a drop at a time) flow, flowing the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases) |
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