drib
معنی فارسی
مقدار کمي يک قطره اندک.
معنی کامل و مثالها
/drib/vi., vt.
● (مهجور) چکیدن، (به مقدار کم) ریخته شدن
* dribs and drabs
خرده خرده، مقدار کم، ذره
تعریف انگلیسی
noun
- a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid) “he had a drop too much to drink” “a drop of each sample was analyzed” “there is not a drop of pity in that man” “years afterward, they would pay the blood-money, driblet by driblet"--Kipling”
مترادفها
verb active
1. Crop, lop, cut off, lop off (little by little).
2. Purloin, appropriate in driblets, cabbage, crib.
3. Entice, allure, decoy, coax, wheedle.