Difference between Dribble and Drip

What is the difference between Dribble and Drip?

Dribble as a noun is a weak, unsteady stream; a trickle. while Drip as a noun is a drop of a liquid.

Dribble

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A weak, unsteady stream; a trickle. A small amount of a liquid. In sport, the act of dribbling.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To let saliva drip from the mouth, to drool To fall in drops or an unsteady stream, to trickle To bounce the ball on the floor with one hand at a time, enabling the player to move with it; To advance by dribbling to let something fall in drips in various ball games, to move the ball, by repeated light kicks

Example sentence: When I used to dribble, I'd be on the wing, and I'd control it with the outside of my foot - it slows the ball down.

Drip

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To fall one drop at a time.To leak slowly.To put a small amount of a liquid on something, drop by drop.To have a superabundance of valuable things. Usually followed by "with".

Part of speech: acronym

Definition: Dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A drop of a liquid.An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream (an intravenous drip).A limp, ineffectual, boring or otherwise uninteresting person.

Example sentence: I don't know what drippy means, but it's not very nice. To be drippy. I don't feel like I drip much at all.

We hope you now know whether to use Dribble or Drip in your sentence.

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