trickle

hilillo, goteo

Pequeña cantidad de líquido que fluye despacio, o el sonido suave que produce.

En inglés sencillo: A small, slow flow of liquid, or the gentle sound it makes.

• Water escaped in a thin trickle.
• A trickle of blood ran from his finger.
• I could hear the trickle from the leaking tap.

Cómo se usa: a trickle of something (A trickle of water ran down the wall.)

Expresiones frecuentes: trickle of something, a slow trickle, steady trickle

riachuelo, hilillo de agua

Arroyo o curso de agua por el que pasa muy poca agua.

En inglés sencillo: A stream or river that has very little water flowing through it.

• The stream is only a trickle now.
• By August, the river had become a muddy trickle.
• Rain turned the trickle into a flowing stream again.

Sinónimos: tiny stream

Expresiones frecuentes: a mere trickle, reduced to a trickle

verter lentamente, dejar gotear

Echar un líquido lentamente, en un hilo fino o en gotas.

En inglés sencillo: To pour liquid slowly in a thin stream or a series of drops.

• Trickle some water onto the soil.
• She trickled oil over the warm bread.
• He carefully trickled the medicine into the cup.

Cómo se usa: trickle something over something (Trickle the sauce over the fish.); trickle something into something (Trickle the oil into the bowl.)

Sinónimos: drizzle, drip

Expresiones frecuentes: trickle something over, trickle something into, trickle something onto