What's the difference between drip and trickle?

Drip


Definition:

  • (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.

Trickle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It trickled back to me somehow that, ‘Goddammit, Johnny Depp’s ruining the film!
  • (2) Technology has made workers more productive, but the profits have trickled up, not down.
  • (3) At its height, flows on the Loire, France’s longest river and home to many nuclear power plants, were reduced to a trickle.
  • (4) Parasite kinetics were followed in pigs receiving A. suum eggs as repeated trickle inoculations at two dose levels beginning at a body weight of 25 kg until their slaughter at 90 kg (baconers).
  • (5) However, increased antibody titers were not associated with increased resistance in trickle challenged mice.
  • (6) More than anything, I started to feel that I was calling my friends less, seeing my friends less and that our friendships were being reduced to a trickle of pictures, comments and quips.
  • (7) Three-year-old, non-lactating and non-pregnant Merino ewes, raised on pasture under a program of strategic treatment with anthelmintic and found to be extremely resistant to "trickle" infection with Haemonchus contortus, were given single-dose infections with either H. contortus or Trichostrongylus colubriformis or both species together.
  • (8) An investigation of aerosols emitted by trickling-filter sewage treatment plants revealed that coliforms were indeed emitted and have been sampled to a distance of 0.8 mile (1.2 kilometers) downwind.
  • (9) The president said: "They've been trying to sell this trickle-down snake oil before."
  • (10) "Trickle down government ... is not the answer for America," is obviously one of the famous Mitt Romney Zingers that we have promised.
  • (11) Probes from a trickling-filter outflow, from an oxidation pond and from a small river were tested simultaneously in a Flow-Microcalorimeter (LKB, 2107, Fig.
  • (12) From there, the Guardian's Paul Harris has filed this: As they trickled into the church – far outnumbered by the hordes of lunchtime office workers and eagerly shopping tourists outside – few expressed anything but acceptance at the once-in-the-last 600 years event.
  • (13) The tertiary-infection group had a higher average number of adult worms per hamster, but fewer subcutaneous nodules than the trickle infection group.
  • (14) EPA Gazza’s Italia 90 tears were but a trickling tributary compared with the Amazon of anguish unleashed by the shell-shocked hosts during their mortifying 7-1 loss to Germany.
  • (15) The trickles leave long, dark stains on the Martian terrain that can reach hundreds of metres downhill in the warmer months, before they dry up in the autumn as surface temperatures drop.
  • (16) Unless emergency measures are adopted, some of our finest waterways could be reduced to trickles over the next few decades.
  • (17) Ironically, Ken Livingstone's policy of letting developers build high-density and tall (in exchange for a minuscule trickle of "social" housing) may have helped turf him out of power, a possibility that Labour might do well to ponder.
  • (18) Food is served once a day to the fighters and supplies have dwindled to a trickle.
  • (19) Like the majority of his employees – most of whom have now begun trickling back to work – Romualdez was almost washed away by the super storm and only survived by clutching onto roof rafters as the waters rose around him.
  • (20) "Normally an item is adopted by the style leaders, then copied by retailers and trickles down that way, but with Birkenstocks, everyone is wearing the real thing," says Ursula Hudson, footwear course director at the London College of Fashion.