What does trickle mean?
Definitions for trickle
ˈtrɪk əltrick·le
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word trickle.
Princeton's WordNet
drip, trickle, dribbleverb
flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid
"there's a drip through the roof"
trickle, dribble, filterverb
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"
Wiktionary
tricklenoun
A very thin river.
The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.
tricklenoun
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.
trickleverb
to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously
The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.
trickleverb
to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously
trickleverb
To move or roll slowly.
Etymology: Originally of tears; from strickle, frequentative of strike, by elision (probably because tears trickle is easier to pronounce than tears strickle).
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Trickleverb
To fall in drops; to rill in a slender stream.
He, prick’d with pride,
Forth spurred fast; adown his courser’s side
The red blood trickling, stain’d the way. Fa. Qu. b. i.Fast beside there trickled softly down
A gentle stream, whose murm’ring wave did play
Amongst the pumy stones, and made a sound
To lull him soft asleep that by it lay. Fa. Qu. b. ii.Some noises help sleep; as, the blowing of the wind, and trickling of water, as moving in the spirits a gentle attention, which stilleth the discursive motion. Francis Bacon.
He wakened by the trickling of his blood. Richard Wiseman.
Beneath his ear the fast’ned arrow stood,
And from the wound appear’d the trickling blood. Dryden.All at once his grief and rage appear’d,
And floods of tears ran trickling down his beard. Dryden.He lay stretch’d along, his eyes fixt upward,
And ever and anon a silent tear
Stole down, and trickled from his hoary beard. Dryden.The emblems of honour wrought on the front in the brittle materials above-mentioned, trickled away under the first impressions of the heat. Joseph Addison, Freeholder, №. 28.
Imbrown’d with native bronze, lo! Henly stands,
Tuning his voice and balancing his hands:
How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue!
How sweet the periods, neither said nor sung. Alexander Pope.They empty heads console with empty sound.
No more, alas! the voice of fame they hear,
The balm of dulness trickling in their ear. Alexander Pope, Dunciad.Subdu’d,
The frost resolves into a trickling thaw. James Thomson, Winter.
Wikipedia
Trickle
Trickle is the second and most recent album from English trip hop band Olive.
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trickle
Trickle refers to a small or slow flow or movement of something, often a liquid, in a thin stream or drops over a period of time. It can also refer to the gradual or slow spread or accumulation of something. The term is also used metaphorically to describe a situation where something is supplied or received in small quantities over a period.
Webster Dictionary
Trickleverb
to flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops
Wikidata
Trickle
Trickle is the second and most recent album from English trip-hop band Olive.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Trickle
trik′l, v.i. to flow gently or in a small stream.—n. a trickling rill.—n. Trick′let, a little rill.—adj. Trick′ly, trickling. [M. E. triklen, prob. for striklen, freq. of striken, to go.]
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
TRICKLE
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Trickle is ranked #91221 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Trickle surname appeared 202 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Trickle.
97.5% or 197 total occurrences were White.
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Anagrams for trickle »
tickler
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of trickle in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of trickle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of trickle in a Sentence
These measures are not likely to trickle down to people in the informal sector.
We are still running into people who want it, but it's just a slow trickle, we no longer have the tap turned on as we did at the beginning with things. It literally was like somebody just turned the faucet off, after it was running, running, running.
Folks, it’s the same old trickle-down dressed up in MAGA clothing, only worse.
We are definitely seeing an uptick in both infections over the last week, we are starting to see a slow and steady trickle of an increase of cases. And why is that ? Well, because this is the time of year when we typically start to see influenza begin to circulate.
One thing that you have to watch for is people just tacking the words poverty and inequality onto a pre-existing agenda that has very little to do with addressing those problems, for the most part, I hear lots of the same trickle-down economics that helped to get us into this mess in the first place.
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- Rinnsal, Tröpfeln, Getröpfel, träufelnGerman
- instilar, chorrear, riachueloSpanish
- noro, valuttaa, valua, puro, noruttaa, noruaFinnish
- ruisseauFrench
- sheelManx
- gocciolio, gocciolare, sgocciolio, sgocciolareItalian
- stillareLatin
- whakamāturu, whakamāturuturu, māturu, tohihī, māturuturu, koreto, kotokotoMāori
- dryppeNorwegian
- струйка, ручеёкRussian
- droppandeSwedish
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