drip vs trickle

drip

noun
  • A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping. 

  • A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person. 

  • Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing. 

  • A drop of a liquid. 

  • A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing. 

  • An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream. 

  • That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater. 

verb
  • To have a superabundance of valuable things. 

  • To rain lightly. 

  • To be wet, to be soaked. 

  • To fall one drop at a time. 

  • To whine or complain consistently; to grumble. 

  • To leak slowly. 

  • To let fall in drops. 

trickle

noun
  • A very thin flow; the act of trickling. 

  • A very thin river. 

verb
  • to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously. 

  • To move or roll slowly. 

  • to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously. 

How often have the words drip and trickle occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )