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# trickle

verb (trickle, trickles, trickled, trickling); noun (a trickle, trickles)

«trickle» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To trickle is for a liquid to flow slowly in a thin line or small drops. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickle/#m1)
2. To trickle is also for people or things to come or go slowly, a few at a time. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickle/#m2)
3. A trickle is a thin slow flow of liquid. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickle/#m3)
4. A trickle is also a small number of people or things arriving slowly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickle/#m4)

### In the lessons

In science: water trickling through soil or rocks, a stream as a trickle in summer. In everyday life: «trickle in», «trickle out» for people arriving or leaving slowly. In stories it makes the reader see small, slow movement: a trickle of blood, sweat or tears. Phrases: «trickle down», «a trickle of», «slow to a trickle».

### Examples

- A trickle of water ran down the window. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickle/#x1)
- Sweat trickled down his face in the heat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickle/#x2)
- The pupils trickled into class after lunch. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickle/#x3)
- In summer the river is only a trickle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickle/#x4)
- Sand trickled through her fingers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickle/#x5)
- Letters from fans came in at a trickle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickle/#x6)
- Rain trickled through the cracks in the roof. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickle/#x7)
- The water trickled down the naked sides of the rocks, and snow lay thickly all around. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickle/#x8)

### Note

Regular verb: «trickled», «trickling» (drop the e). A trickle is slower and smaller than a stream or a flow; a «gush» is the opposite. Countable as a noun: «a trickle».

## In Jewish tradition

In Job, God's wisdom is shown in the way people dig into the earth and stop the streams from trickling.

**Interpretation.** Job 28 is read as a hymn showing that people can master mines and streams, but real wisdom comes only from God.

### Examples

- He bindeth the streams that they trickle not; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light. (Writings JOB.28.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/trickle/#x1)

### Note

Regular verb: «trickled», «trickling» (drop the e). A trickle is slower and smaller than a stream or a flow; a «gush» is the opposite. Countable as a noun: «a trickle».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «trickle» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickle/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«trickle» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/trickle.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «trickle» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/trickle/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«trickle» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/trickle.html) on Mova free.