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Verb
/ˈdrizəl/,
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Light rain falling in very fine drops,
  1. Rain lightly
    • - it's started to drizzle
    • - the drizzling rain
  2. Cause a thin stream of (a liquid ingredient) to trickle over food
    • - drizzle the clarified butter over the top
  3. Cause a liquid ingredient to trickle over (food) in this way
    • - raspberries drizzled with melted chocolate
Noun
  1. Light rain falling in very fine drops
    • - Boston will be cloudy with patchy drizzle
    • - a steady drizzle has been falling since 3 a.m.
  2. A thin stream of a liquid ingredient trickled over something


  1. rain lightly; "When it drizzles in summer, hiking can be pleasant"
  2. very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower
  3. moisten with fine drops; "drizzle the meat with melted butter"
  4. (drizzling) (of rain) falling lightly in very small drops; "a raw drizzing rain"
  5. (drizzly) drippy: wet with light rain; "a sad drizzly day"; "a wet drippy day"
  6. Drizzle is a light rain precipitation consisting of liquid water drops smaller than those of rain, and generally smaller than 0.5 mm (0.02 in.) in diameter. Drizzle is normally produced by low stratiform clouds and stratocumulus clouds. ...
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  8. Drizzle (or DRIZZLE) is a digital image processing method for the linear reconstruction of undersampled images. It is normally used for the combination of astronomical images and was originally developed for the Hubble Deep Field observations made by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...
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  10. Light rain; . Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground. It is sometimes accompanied by low visibility and fog; Water; To rain lightly; To pour slowly and evenly, especially with oil in cooking; To urinate
  11. To sprinkle drops of liquid lightly over food in a casual manner.
  12. Small, slowly falling water droplets, with diameters between .2 and .5 millimeters.
  13. To pour a thin mixture, such as melted butter or thin icing, over food in a very fine stream.
  14. Light liquid precipitation of small uniform drops falling from stratus clouds.
  15. A uniform precipitation composed exclusively of fine drops of liquid measuring <0.5mm in diameter.
  16. Rain falling as very tiny droplets, small enough not to cause splashes in a puddle.
  17. Small drops between 0.2 and 0.5 millimeters in diameter that fall slowly and reduce visibility more than light rain.
  18. Heavy mist or light, fine, continuous rain that will fall slowly, reducing visibility somewhat more than light rain. Water droplets will be between 0.2mm and 0.5mm in size. Drizzle can often be confused with light rain, however drizzle's water droplets will be smaller in size than those of rain.
  19. Breads, coffee cakes, cookies, cakes are some of the baked goods that can be enhanced by a drizzle of glaze, icing, or melted chocolate.  Other times, a baked good is drizzled with melted butter just before being baked. ...
  20. Drizzle is actually rain but the particles are so small and light that it is officially distinguished from rain by the fact it does not make a splash when falling into a puddle.
  21. Precipitation in the form of liquid drops. It's diameter is less than .5 millimeters. Drizzle falls at a much slower rate than rain does.
  22. very tiny drops of water that float to the ground
  23. Falling water drops with a diameter less than 0.02 inch.
  24. To drip a glaze or icing over food from the tines of a fork or the end of a spoon.
  25. To dribble drops of icing, chocolate or other liquidy ingredient over food in a random pattern.