1. subst. (medicine) drip (e.g. connected to an IV)
2. subst. poor sap, poor sod
Übersetzungen für Tropf und ihre Definitionen
drip
1. Verb:
2. [1] tropfen, tröpfeln; abtropfen
[1] The water dripped during the whole night.
Das Wasser tropfte die ganze Nacht.
drip
1. v. (intransitive) To fall one drop at a time.
Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad!
2. v. (intransitive) To leak slowly.
Does the sink drip, or have I just spilt water over the floor?
3. v. To let fall in drops.
After putting oil on the side of the salad, the chef should drip a little vinegar in the oil.
My broken pen dripped ink onto the table.
4. v. (intransitive usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.
The Old Hall simply drips with masterpieces of the Flemish painters.
The duchess was dripping with jewels.
5. v. (intransitive, of the weather) To rain lightly.
The weather isn't so bad. I mean, it's dripping, but you're not going to get so wet.
6. v. (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked.
7. subst. A drop of a liquid.
I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.
8. subst. A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
9. subst. (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.
He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip.
10. subst. (colloquial) A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!
11. subst. (architecture) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.
12. subst. (finance) A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.
wretch
wretch
1. subst. An unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person.
