trickle

filet, ruissellement

Petite quantité de liquide qui coule lentement, ou le léger bruit qu’elle produit.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : a trickle of something (A trickle of water ran down the wall.)

Expressions courantes : trickle of something, a slow trickle, steady trickle

filet d'eau

Petit cours d’eau où coule très peu d’eau.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : tiny stream

Expressions courantes : a mere trickle, reduced to a trickle

verser en filet, faire couler goutte à goutte

Verser un liquide lentement, en filet ou goutte à goutte.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : trickle something over something (Trickle the sauce over the fish.); trickle something into something (Trickle the oil into the bowl.)

Synonymes : drizzle, drip

Expressions courantes : trickle something over, trickle something into, trickle something onto