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goutte — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • blob noun A soft, shapeless mass or drop of something.
  • dribble verb In sports such as football or basketball, to move the ball forward by repeatedly bouncing or tapping it.
  • drip verb To fall in individual drops.
  • drop noun A small round blob of liquid.
  • gout noun A painful form of arthritis caused by a build-up of uric acid crystals in the joints, often striking the big toe.
  • tipple noun An area near the entrance of mines which is used to load and unload coal.

Senses

goutte is used for these senses in English:

  • blob A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.
  • dribble (countable) A small amount of a liquid.
  • drip A drop of a liquid.
  • drop (also, figuratively) A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
  • droplet A very small drop.
  • gout (rare) A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.
  • goutte (heraldiccharge) A charge in the form of a teardrop shape, originally with wavy sides, but now often with straight sides.
  • gutta (architectural element) A small water-repelling, cone-shaped projection used in the architrave of the Doric order in classical architecture.

blob — full definition

  1. noun A soft, shapeless mass or drop of something.
  2. verb To fall or spill in the form of a blob.

dribble — full definition

  1. verb In sports such as football or basketball, to move the ball forward by repeatedly bouncing or tapping it.
  2. verb To let saliva or liquid drip slowly from the mouth or from a container.
  3. noun A small trickle of liquid, or an act of dribbling a ball.

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