Drizzle vs. Trickle — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Drizzle and Trickle
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Drizzle
Drizzle is a light liquid precipitation consisting of liquid water drops smaller than those of rain – generally smaller than 0.5 mm (0.02 in) in diameter. Drizzle is normally produced by low stratiform clouds and stratocumulus clouds.
Trickle
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Drizzle
Light rain falling in very fine drops
Scotland will be cloudy with patchy drizzle
A steady drizzle has been falling since 3 a.m
Trickle
To flow or fall in drops or in a thin stream.
Drizzle
(in cooking) a thin stream of a liquid ingredient trickled over food
Raw mushrooms, thinly sliced and served with lemon, a little salt, and a drizzle of olive oil
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Trickle
To move or proceed slowly or bit by bit
The audience trickled in.
Drizzle
Rain lightly
It's started to drizzle
Trickle
To cause to trickle.
Drizzle
(in cooking) trickle a thin stream of (a liquid ingredient) over food
Drizzle the clarified butter over the top
Trickle
The act or condition of trickling.
Drizzle
To rain gently in fine, mistlike drops.
Trickle
A slow, small, or irregular quantity that moves, proceeds, or occurs intermittently.
Drizzle
To let fall in fine drops or particles
Drizzled melted butter over the asparagus.
Trickle
A very thin river.
The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.
Drizzle
To moisten with fine drops
Drizzled the asparagus with melted butter.
Trickle
A very thin flow; the act of trickling.
The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.
Drizzle
A fine, gentle, misty rain.
Trickle
(transitive) to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously.
The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.
Drizzle
(impersonal) To rain lightly.
We had planned a picnic for Joe's birthday, but it ended up drizzling all day.
Trickle
(intransitive) to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously.
Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.
The film was so bad that people trickled out of the cinema before its end.
Drizzle
(ambitransitive) To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.
Trickle
(intransitive) To move or roll slowly.
Drizzle
To pour slowly and evenly, especially oil or honey in cooking.
The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle olive oil on it.
Trickle
To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops.
His salt tears trickled down as rain.
Fast beside there trickled softly downA gentle stream.
Drizzle
To cover by pouring in this manner.
The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle it in olive oil.
Trickle
The act or state of trickling; also, that which trickles; a small stream; drip.
Streams that . . . are short and rapid torrents after a storm, but at other times dwindle to feeble trickles of mud.
Drizzle
(slang) To urinate. en
Trickle
Flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid;
There's a drip through the roof
Drizzle
(dated) To carry out parfilage, the process of unravelling.
Trickle
Run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream;
Water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose
Reports began to dribble in
Drizzle
Light rain.
Drizzle
Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground.
No longer pouring, the rain outside slowed down to a faint drizzle.
Drizzle
(slang) Water.
Stop drinking all of my drizzle!
Drizzle
(baking) A cake onto which icing, honey or syrup has been drizzled in an artistic manner.
Drizzle
To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drops or rain.
Drizzle
To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.
Drizzle
A fine rain or mist.
Drizzle
Very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower
Drizzle
Rain lightly;
When it drizzles in summer, hiking can be pleasant
Drizzle
Moisten with fine drops;
Drizzle the meat with melted butter
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