Dripping vs. Ooze — What's the Difference?

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.

To flow or leak out slowly, as through small openings.

The act or sound of something falling in drops.

To disappear or ebb slowly

Often drippings The fat and juices exuded from roasting meat, often used in making gravy.

To progress slowly but steadily

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

To exude moisture.

The sound or action of something that drips.

To emit a particular essence or quality

The use of a drip tip to drip e-liquid directly onto the atomizer of an e-cigarette.

To give off; exude.

Present participle of drip

To emit or radiate in abundance

A falling in drops, or the sound so made.

The act of oozing.

That which falls in drops, as fat from meat in roasting.

Something that oozes.

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

An infusion of plant material, as from oak bark, formerly used in tanning.

The sound of a liquid falling drop by drop;

Soft mud or slime.

Having liquid falling in drops;

A layer of mudlike sediment on the floor of oceans and lakes, composed chiefly of remains of microscopic sea animals.

Wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or blood or tears;

Muddy ground.

Extremely wet;

Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.

An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth.

(obsolete) Secretion, humour.

(obsolete) Juice, sap.

Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary.

(oceanography) A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms.

A piece of soft, wet, pliable ground.

To be secreted or slowly leak.

To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude.

Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure.

Soft flow; spring.

The liquor of a tan vat.

A soft deposit covering large areas of the ocean bottom, composed largely or mainly of the shells or other hard parts of minute organisms, as Foraminifera, Radiolaria, and diatoms. The radiolarian ooze occurring in many places in very deep water is composed mainly of the siliceous skeletons of radiolarians, calcareous matter being dissolved by the lage percentage of carbon dioxide in the water at these depths.

To flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance or through small openings.

Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out.

To cause to ooze.

Any thick messy substance

The process of seeping

Pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings

Release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities;