(v. i.) To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves.
(v. i.) To let fall drops of moisture or liquid; as, a wet garment drips.
(v. t.) To let fall in drops.
(n.) A falling or letting fall in drops; a dripping; that which drips, or falls in drops.
(n.) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and is of such section as to throw off the rain water.
Example Sentences:
(1) Infants were fed the same quantity of formula each day, either for 5 minutes or by continuous drip for 2 to 3 hours.
(2) If all 102 patients had received conventional IV drip infusions, the total patient equipment charges would have been $4,610.40.
(3) Particularly, the losses during blanching and thawing (drip) are discussed.
(4) Drip infusion pyelogram revealed a decrease in the left renal function and the presence of the gas in the pyelocalyceal system.
(5) Never leave a tap dripping - it can waste up to four litres a day.
(6) In the treatment of 31 cases of acute infections of pediatric field including upper and lower airway infections, empyema, whooping cough, acute urinary tract infections and phlegmon, CMNX was administered intravenously either as one shot injection as drip infusion.
(7) Appropriate conditions for administering the drug by intravenous drip infusion to neonates and infants at ages of more than 1 week were investigated taking observed blood levels and achieved peak levels and trough levels calculated using the one-compartment open model into account.
(8) In 4 patients with peritonitis drug levels in the ascites were determined following administration of BRL 28500 by drip infusion.
(9) Experiments show that the primary source of air bubbles in such a system is the drip chamber.
(10) The pathways involved in protein transport across the lymphatic endothelium of the rat renal cortex after in vivo drip fixation were studied ultrastructurally.
(11) Ampicillin-cloxacillin (Viccillin S 'Meiji') by intravenous drip infusion was used in gynecological infections, with the following satisfactory results.
(12) It’s also a legal authority that is exempt from oversight by Congress or the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, meaning we know even less about it than the other NSA powers that have been dripping out over the last year and a half.
(13) Two hundred and forty-nine patients are divided into four homogenous groups to compare the efficacy of Cimetidine versus antacids, as well as the mode of delivery--bolus versus continuous drip--in the prophylaxis of acute hemorrhagic gastritis in critically ill patients.
(14) As regards method of administration, CMNX from a vial was dissolved in physiological saline or distilled water for injection, and the solution was administered by 3 to 5 minutes one shot intravenous injection (15 cases), or CMNX was diluted with large volume parenteral product and administered by 30 to 60 minutes drip infusion (10 cases).
(15) Many had plastic nodules stuck to their skull, to allow the nurses to attach them to a drip.
(16) Dopamine drip may be used as a renal rescue, whereas heparin is indicated for thromboembolic phenomena and surgery reserved for abdominal catastrophies.
(17) Anaesthesia was induced by thiopentone and was maintained either by a continuous drip of thiopentone or by inhalation of halothane.
(18) The PTT was checked every 4 hours and the heparin drip was titrated to keep the PTT at 50 to 60 seconds.
(19) Indeed the lack of trust suggests that funds will be drip-fed to Greece and that a longer-term agreement will be very difficult to reach.” According to local media Tsipras has called an emergency meeting with top ministers to discuss the situation, including chief negotiator Euclid Tsakalotos, the deputy prime minister, Yannis Dragasakis, and the state minister, Nikos Pappas.
(20) These steps include a careful guidewire technique, insisting on spontaneous free back-dripping of blood from newly introduced catheters after removal of the guidewire, aspiration of blood with a syringe and flushing with saline and contrast.
Leak
Definition:
(v.) A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe.
(v.) The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps.
(a.) Leaky.
(n.) To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc.; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks.
(n.) To enter or escape, as a fluid, through a hole, crevice, etc. ; to pass gradually into, or out of, something; -- usually with in or out.
Example Sentences:
(1) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(2) And, according to a letter leaked to the BBC last week , he reckons he has found one: default-on.
(3) Madonna has defended her description of the leak of 13 unfinished demos from her forthcoming album as “a form of terrorism” and “artistic rape”.
(4) Diagnosis and identification of the site of the leak is often inaccurate, even with meticulous care given to placing and removing the nasal pledgets.
(5) The leak also included the script for an in-house Sony Pictures recruitment video and performance reviews for hundreds employees.
(6) Responding to a “We the People” petition, launched after Snowden’s initial leaks were published in the Guardian two years ago, the Obama administration on Tuesday reiterated its belief that he should face criminal charges for his actions.
(7) The toxicity at this dose included pericarditis and dyspnoea ascribed to a 'capillary-leak' syndrome.
(8) Horseradish peroxidase was not observed to leak from the lumen of new vessels.
(9) The cation leak identified in this manner is not prelytic, and it is fully reversible.
(10) At a private meeting last Tuesday, Hunt assured Cameron and the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, that he had not been aware that his special adviser, Adam Smith, was systematically leaking information and advice to News Corp about its bid for BSkyB.
(11) Well known buyout firms such as Blackstone and Carlyle appear in the leaked documents, and Luxembourg investment vehicles are commonplace in such investment firms.
(12) Excessive poppet wear has also been noted in the aortic position; poppet embolization has occurred on 2 occasions, and a third patient was found, at the time of reoperation for periprosthetic leak, to have opppet wear sufficient to permit embolization.
(13) 2) MTC was useful for the resection of the lung because of no air leak and bleeding coming from the resected section.
(14) It also devalues the courage of real whistleblowers who have used proper channels to hold our government accountable.” McCain added: “It is a sad, yet perhaps fitting commentary on President Obama’s failed national security policies that he would commute the sentence of an individual that endangered the lives of American troops, diplomats, and intelligence sources by leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, a virulently anti-American organisation that was a tool of Russia’s recent interference in our elections.” WikiLeaks last year published emails hacked from the accounts of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.
(15) Based on documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the New York Times and ProPublica reported on Thursday that the Justice Department in 2012 permitted the NSA to use widespread surveillance authorities passed by Congress to stop terrorism and foreign espionage in order to find digital signatures associated with high-level cyber intrusions.
(16) They moved to shore up May’s position after a weekend of damaging leaks and briefings from inside the cabinet, believed to be fuelled by some of those jostling to succeed the prime minister after her disastrous election result.
(17) BP sprayed almost 2m gallons of Corexit on the slick and at the leak site on the seabed.
(18) Cardiac disorders being usually concomitant with this syndrome (interventricular leak, pulmonary arterial wedge stenosis etc.)
(19) Thus, both pump-mediated and leak Na+ effluxes were voltage independent.
(20) Reoperation was more frequent after valve replacement with bioprostheses (6.7% per patient year) than after valvuloplasty (4.3% per patient year) and after mechanical valve replacement (1.5% per patient year; P less than 0.02), and was necessitated mainly by residual or recurrent valve dysfunction after valvuloplasty, bland or infected periprosthetic leaks in mechanical valves and degradation of bioprostheses.