What does Dripping mean?

Definitions for Dripping
ˈdrɪp ɪŋdrip·ping

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. dripping, drippagenoun

    a liquid (as water) that flows in drops (as from the eaves of house)

  2. drip, drippingadverb

    the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop

    "the constant sound of dripping irritated him"

  3. soaking, sopping, drippingadverb

    extremely wet

    "dripping wet"; "soaking wet"

Wiktionary

  1. drippingnoun

    Solid animal fat, traditionally collected from dripping off roasting meat.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Drippingnoun

    The fat which housewives gather from roast meat.

    Etymology: from drip.

    Shews all her secrets of housekeeping;
    For candles how she trucks her dripping. Jonathan Swift.

Wikipedia

  1. Dripping

    Dripping, also known usually as beef dripping or, more rarely, as pork dripping, is an animal fat produced from the fatty or otherwise unusable parts of cow or pig carcasses. It is similar to lard, tallow and schmaltz.

ChatGPT

  1. dripping

    Dripping refers to the act or process of falling in drops, or something that falls in drops, often in a slow, consistent manner, typically from a liquid substance. It can also be used to describe the excess or residual liquid that drops or seeps from something. Furthermore, it can refer to a particular type of animal fat used in cooking.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Dripping

    of Drip

  2. Drippingnoun

    a falling in drops, or the sound so made

  3. Drippingnoun

    that which falls in drops, as fat from meat in roasting

Wikidata

  1. Dripping

    Dripping, also known usually as beef dripping or, more rarely, as pork dripping, is an animal fat produced from the fatty or otherwise unusable parts of cow or pig carcasses. It is similar to lard, tallow and schmaltz.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Dripping in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Dripping in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Dripping in a Sentence

  1. unknown:

    Dripping water hollows out stone, but through force but through persistence.

  2. Shahrukh Khan:

    She was sitting on the chair with blood dripping from her body as she burned.

  3. Lakshheish M Patel:

    The more retail investors will buy , the more their chance of making losses in dripping market. If they sit on sidelines and stop seeing stock market they will find their share price rising or recovering losses

  4. Helmut Marban:

    When they checked they found it had no driver and blood was dripping out of the vehicle and there was a smell of dead bodies.

  5. James Thurber:

    Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

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