trickle(n = noun.event) dribble, drip - flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid; "there's a drip through the roof"
is a kind of flow, flowing
has particulars: intravenous drip
Derived form verb trickle1
trickle(v = verb.motion) dribble, filter - 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"
is one way to course, feed, flow, run
Derived form noun trickle1
Sample sentences:
Water and oil trickle into the bowl
To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops. [1913 Webster]
"His salt tears trickled down as rain." [1913 Webster]
"Fast beside there trickled softly down
A gentle stream." [1913 Webster]
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." [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
trickle, v. & n.
--v.
1 intr. & tr. flow or cause to flow in drops or a small stream (water trickled through the crack).
2 tr. come or go slowly or gradually (information trickles out).
--n. a trickling flow.
Idiom:
trickle charger an electrical charger for batteries that works at a steady slow rate from the mains.
Etymology:
ME trekel, trikle, prob. imit.
VB emerge, emanate, issue, egress, go out of, come out of, move out of, pass out of, pour out of, flow out of, pass out of, evacuate, exude, transude, leak, run through, out through, percolate, transcolate, egurgitate, strain, distill, perspire, sweat, drain, ooze, filter, filtrate, dribble, gush, spout, flow out, well, well out, pour, trickle, effuse, extravasate, disembogue, discharge itself, debouch, come forth, break forth, burst out, burst through, find vent, escape.
VB flow, run, meander, gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue, drop, drip, dribble, plash, spirtle, trill, trickle, distill, percolate, stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash, guggle, murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgle, sputter, spurt, spray, regurgitate, ooze, flow out, rain hard, rain in torrents, rain cats and dogs, rain pitchforks, pour with rain, drizzle, spit, set in, mizzle, flow into, fall into, open into, drain into, discharge itself, disembogue, pour, pour out, shower down, irrigate, drench, spill, splash, stanch, dam, up, obstruct.