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drop

UK/dɹɒp//dɹɑp/

drop noun: a small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own rounded shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid. Also the ellipsis of drop hammer or drop press.

Noun

drop (plural drops)

  1. (also, figuratively) A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own rounded shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
    • Put three drops of oil into the mixture.
    • A circular horizontal surface of indefinite diameter gave a drop of water weighing 2·10 grains. This is therefore the weight of the maximum drop formed on a flat surface, and it will be seen that it very nearly coincides with the weight of the drop formed upon a surface seven-tenths of an inch...1864 March, T[homas] Tate, “XXX. On the Magnitude of a Drop of Liquid Formed under Different Circumstances.”, in David Brewster, Robert Kane, William Francis, editors, The London, Edinburgh, and...
    Synonyms:
    gt, gtt, gutta
    1. (also, figuratively) A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1).
      • My first treatment consisted of one eye drop in each eye which was supposed to determine the condition of the eye and make it easier to examine them the next day.1986, Eugene Tinory, Journey from Ammeah: The Story of a Lebanese Immigrant, Brattleboro, Vt.: Amana Books, →ISBN, page 96
      • The eye is able to hold only about 20 percent of the amount of fluid in a standard eye drop. Therefore, put only one eye drop in your eye at a time. If you have been instructed to use more than one eye drop, wait about 5 minutes between the drops. This will allow more of the drops to be absorbed...2009, Mark A[llan] Goldstein, Myrna Chandler Goldstein, Larry P. Credit, “Glaucoma [Tipes for Using Eye Drops]”, in Your Best Medicine: From Conventional and Complementary Medicine—Expert-endorsed...
    2. (also, figuratively, in plural) A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1).
      • ear drops eye drops
  2. (figuratively) A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.
    • My aunt asked for just a drop more tea.
    • He was thirsty but there wasn’t a drop of water to be found
    1. (Australia, UK, figuratively) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
      • He usually enjoys a drop after dinner. She won’t touch a drop while she’s on duty.
    2. (UK, figuratively) Usually preceded by the: alcoholic spirits in general.
      • It doesn’t matter where you’re from, anyone who enjoys the drop is a friend of mine.
      • She is rather fond of her drops, and is then particularly good-humoured; it is only when she is getting sober that she is querulous and nervous.1834, Peregrine Reedpen [pseudonym], “The Survey Continued. Odds and Ends.”, in Our Town; or, Rough Sketches of Character, Manners, &c. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 61
    3. (Ireland, figuratively, informal) A single measure of whisky.
  3. Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop or piece of licorice; a lozenge.
  4. An ornament resembling a pendant; a gutta.
  5. The cover mounted on a swivel over a keyhole that rests over the keyhole when not in use to keep out debris, but is swiveled out of the way before inserting the key.
  6. A fruit which has fallen off a tree, etc., or has been knocked off accidentally, rather than picked.
    • Drops are another source of juice apple supply. As the pickers pick apples in orchards oriented toward fresh-market or canning apples, apples fall or are accidentally knocked to the ground; these are drops. The only use for drops is juice production.1986 June, “Information Obtained in the Investigation”, in Apple Juice: Report to the President on Investigation No. TA-201-59 under Section 201 of the Trade Act of 1974 (USITC Publication; 1861)...
    • Drops are fruit that has fallen to the ground naturally or that is dropped or knocked off during harvest. Drops have no value except for pressing for juice. While the value of drops is usually minimal, they must be removed from the orchards; otherwise, they attract mice which later in the season...1993, United States Commission on Agricultural Workers, “The Apple Industry in New York and Pennsylvania”, in Case Studies and Research Reports Prepared for the Commission on Agricultural Workers...
  7. A dropped pass.
    • Yet another drop for the Tiger tight end.
  8. A trapdoor (“hinged platform”) on a gallows; a gallows itself.
    • […] and lo! the gallows is built up; the solemn bell tolls through the dismal gray of the early morning, the drop creaks under the guilty feet, and the penalty of crime is paid.1862, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret
    • She. Have you ever seen a man hanged?
      He. Yes. Once.
      She. What was it for?
      He. Murder, of course.
      She. Murder. Is that so great a sin after all? I wonder how he felt before the drop fell.1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Hill of Illusion”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 84
  9. (Internet) An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.
  10. A mechanism for lowering something, such as a machine for lowering heavy weights on to a ship's deck, or a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet, etc.
  11. (electrics) An overhead electrical line running from a utility pole to a customer's building or other premises.
    • Do a drop for the telephone gang, then another drop for the Internet gang, both through the ceiling of the wiring closet.
    Synonyms:
    drop wire, service drop
  12. A curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; also, a section of (cloth) scenery lowered on to the stage like a curtain.
    • La Cage's upstage drops include two of the St. Tropez harbor (one for the day and another for the night), [... an] ocean drop (used in an Act I dream sequence), and an abstract chandelier drop (used in the second act[…]).1983, Theatre Crafts, New York, N.Y.: Theatre Crafts Associates, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 61, column 1
    • In The Rover, one of these esthetically important elements was the arrangement of the upstage drops. Originally the drop was split into three sections, with obvious and blatant seams between them.2007, Michele Fields, Designing The Rover (unpublished M.F.A. dissertation), Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin–Madison, →OCLC
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  1. An act of moving downwards under the force of gravity; a descent, a fall.
    • That was a long drop, but fortunately I didn’t break any bones.
    • The slope of the terrain, shaped like a funnel, squeezed the growing swell of churning snow into a steep, twisting gorge. It moved in surges, like a roller coaster on a series of drops and high-banked turns.2012, John Branch, “Snow fall: The avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Feb 2021
    Synonyms:
    flop, decline
  2. An instance of making a delivery of people, supplies, or things, especially by parachute out of an aircraft (an airdrop), but also by truck, etc.
    • The delivery driver has to make three more drops before lunch.
    • The spy made the drop, leaving the plans under the tree as arranged.
  3. A release (of music, a video game, etc).
    • 2002 saw the drop of a new album whose title riffed on the many magazine cover stories calling Sum 41's music infectious.2004, L. S., “Sum 41”, in Nathan Brackett, Christian Hoard, editors, The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (A Fireside Book), 4th edition, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 792, column 1
    • Turned out this was the drop party for popster Effigy's latest release, BeatMeKickMeHoldMe.2020 January, Stephen Wright, Processed Cheese, ebook edition, New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN
  4. The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino.
    • What the first column in the table shows you is how much the casinos won as a percentage of the drop. For example, on the roulette table for every $100 that went into the drop box the casino wonj $22.70 or 22.70%. […] In other words, the drop tells you how many chips were bought at that table, but...1996, Steve Bourie, Anthony Curtis [et al.], American Casino Guide, Dania, Fla.: Casino Vacations, published 1997, →ISBN, page 12
  5. (informal) Preceded by the: execution by hanging.
    • [A]ll those present shared the all-important political connections required to get a ticket to the execution. News reporters, doctors, and members of the juries had prime spots right by the platform, so that they could see the drop and record the time of death.2011, Elizabeth Dale, “Justice is Served”, in The Chicago Trunk Murder: Law and Justice at the Turn of the Century, DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 74
  6. Usually preceded by the: relegation from one division to a lower one.
  7. A near vertical descent down the face of a breaking wave.
    • You take off, make the steep drop, hear the white water rumbling behind you and feel the spray on your back.1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer
  8. (US, dated) An unsolicited credit card issue.
  9. A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.
    • The drop in demand for oil resulted in a drop in prices.
    • [T]he volume of money was expected to fluctuate with the volume of business activity so that a drop in business activity would bring a drop in the volume of money outstanding. […] If the volume of money is reduced, it tends to produce a slight drop in demand for all sorts of commodities.1935 January 17, Gardiner C[olt] Means, “Appendix L. The Necessity for Supplying the Right Amount of Monetary Medium.”, in Industrial Prices and Their Relative Inflexibility […] (74th Congress, 1st...
    1. Of men's clothes: the difference between the chest circumference and waist circumference.
    2. Of women's clothes: the difference between the bust circumference and hip circumference.
  10. The distance below a cliff or other high position through which someone or something could fall; hence, a steep slope.
    • On one side of the road was a 50-foot drop.
    • An Ananda truck coming down a steep, winding mountain road completely lost its brakes and crashed through a thin guard rail over an almost sheer 1000 foot drop. It was caught and held by a solitary tree that was growing in the one and only spot where it could prevent a certain fatal plunge. No one...1982, John Ball, “Preface”, in Ananda: Where Yoga Lives, Bowling Green, Oh.: Bowling Green University Popular Press, →ISBN, page 6
  11. The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
  12. The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
  13. The distance that a person drops when being executed by hanging.
  14. The depth of a (square) sail (generally applied to the courses only); the vertical dimension of a sail.
    • A further point is, that the convenience of the ship herself may interfere with the disposition of sails. A high forecastle will shorten the drop of the foresail, and a poop may seriously interfere with the spanker.1869, Richard W. Meade, A Treatise on Naval Architecture and Shipbuilding, page 117
    • Her mainyard was 80 feet long, and her mainsail had a drop of 40 feet.1969, Richard Armstrong, The Merchantmen, page 97
  15. A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, whether openly (as with a mail drop), or secretly or illegally (as in crime or espionage); a drop-off point.
    • I left the plans at the drop, like you asked.
    • A drop is a place where the stolen property can be stored. It may be a warehouse, an apartment, or a garage. At the drop, a group of persons called loaders remove the merchandise from the truck and store it.1973, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business, Criminal Redistribution Systems and Their Economic Impact on Small Business: Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, page 811
  16. (informal) Only used in get the drop on, have the drop on: an advantage.
  17. A point in a song, usually electronic music such as dubstep, house, trance, or trap, where there is a very noticeable and pleasing change in bass, tempo, and/or overall tone; a climax, a highlight.
    • But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which [Justin] Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM [electronic dance music] accouterments, seeking a comfortable middle ground where Bieber’s impressively refined pop-R&B croon can rub up...2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2020
    • Just as dubstep has grown in popularity and combined with many different genres, the drop has become a generalized type of which there are many individually varying instances, including dubstep bass-drop. As LA Times critic Randall Roberts notes, even good-girl tween pop idol Taylor Swift uses a...2015, Robin James, Resilience & Melancholy, Zero Books, →ISBN
  18. (US, slang) An automobile with a drop-top roof, a convertible.
  19. A place (specified by an ordinal) in the batting order after the openers.
    • `Well what about first drop then? Garner will be on by then, I'll smash him all over the park.'1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 177

Verb

drop (third-person singular simple present drops, present participle dropping, simple past and past participle dropped or (archaic) dropt)

  1. (intransitive) Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets.
    • The kindlye dewe drops from the higher tree, / And wets the little plants that lowly dwell.1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Ægloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 44, verso
  2. (also, figuratively, intransitive) To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid.
    • A single shot was fired and the bird dropped from the sky.
    1. (Internet, also, figuratively, intransitive) Of an item: To appear for the player to pick up, usually after an enemy has been defeated.
      • When you defeat this boss, there's a chance a power-up will drop.
      • This item can sometimes drop from chests.
  3. (intransitive) To fall or sink quickly or suddenly to the ground.
    • Drop and give me thirty push-ups, private!
    • If your clothes are on fire, stop, drop, and roll.
  4. (intransitive) To collapse in exhaustion or injury; also, to fall dead, or to fall in death.
    • Nothing, ſays Seneca, is ſo melancholy a circumſtance in human life, or ſo ſoon reconciles us to the thought of our own death, as the reflection and prospect of one friend after another dropping round us!1722 September 12, Robert Digby, “[Letters to and from the Hon. Robert Digby. From 1717 to 1724.] Letter X [to Alexander Pope].”, in The Works of Alexander Pope Esq., volume VIII (Being the Second of...
  5. (intransitive) To fall into a particular condition or state.
  6. (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to lapse, to stop.
    • When he again found privacy consistent, however—and it happened to be long in coming—he took up their conversation very much where it had dropped.1897 October 16, Henry James, chapter X, in What Maisie Knew, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Herbert S. Stone & Co., →OCLC, page 108
  7. (intransitive) To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.
    • The stock dropped 1.5% yesterday.
    • We can take our vacation when the price of fuel drops.
    1. (intransitive) Of a song or sound: to lower in key, pitch, tempo, or other quality.
      • My synthesizer makes the notes sound funny when they drop below C2.
      • The song, 180 beats per minute, drops to 150 BPM near the end.
    2. (intransitive) Of a voice: to lower in timbre, often due to puberty.
      • Billy’s voice dropped suddenly when he turned 12.
      • The 18-year-old [Justin] Bieber can’t quite pull off the “adult” thing just yet: His voice may have dropped a bit since the days of “Baby,” but it still mostly registers as “angelic,” and veers toward a pubescent whine at times.2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2020
  8. (intransitive) To fall behind or to the rear of a group of people, etc., as a result of not keeping up with those at the front.
  9. (intransitive) Usually followed by by, in, or into: of a person: to visit someone or somewhere informally or without a prior appointment.
    • Do drop by soon and I’ll lend you that book.
    • We’ll drop in on her tomorrow.
  10. (colloquial, intransitive) Of a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution.
    • The album Hip-Hop Xmas dropped in time for the holidays.
  11. (intransitive) To drop out of the betting.
    • But more important, if I dropped, Marty would have won the hand automatically.1990, Stewart Wolpin, The Rules of Neighborhood Poker According to Hoyle, page 219
  12. (informal, intransitive) Of the testicles: to hang further away from the body and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
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  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
    • The heavens […] dropped at the presence of God.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 68:8
  2. (transitive) To drip (a liquid) in drops or small amounts.
    • The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]
    • persons, dropping sweat-drops or blood-drops1892, Walt Whitman, “(please specify the poem name)”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], →OCLC
  3. (also, ergative, figuratively, transitive) To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).
    • Don’t drop that plate! The police ordered the men to drop their weapons.
    • But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from the aircraft they should have been dropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits of debris...2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43
    1. (Internet, also, ergative, figuratively, transitive) Of a defeated enemy or container: To leave behind an item that the player can collect.
      • The monsters drop health pickups when killed.
      • When opened, these chests have a chance to drop powerful items.
  4. (transitive) To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.
    • The stare seemed to abash Poirot. He dropped his eyes and began fiddling with the papers in front of him.1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 8, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 129
    1. (transitive) To quickly lower or take down (one's trousers), especially in public.
    2. (transitive) To cook (food, especially fast food), particularly by lowering into hot oil to deep-fry, or by grilling; to begin cooking an order.
      • Drop a basket of fries.
  5. (transitive) To reduce; to make smaller.
    • Here is a simple example: suppose you are in the process of writing a 15-page proposal and at a certain point you decide that, in order to fit all your material, you want to drop the font size from 12 to 11.2011, Alexander Mamishev, Sean Williams, Technical Writing for Teams: The STREAM Tools Handbook, page 64
  6. (transitive) Of an animal (usually a sheep): to give birth to (young); of a bird: to lay (an egg).
    • to drop a lamb
  7. (transitive) To mention (something) casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
    • The lecturer would drop hints whenever the students struggled.
    • name drop
  8. (transitive) To let (a letter, etc.) fall into a postbox; hence, to send (a letter, email, or other message) in an offhand manner.
    • As she had a free moment, she dropped her a text.
    • Drop me a note when you get to the city.
  9. (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot, etc.; to bring down, to shoot down; to kill.
    • Make any sudden movements and I will drop you!
    • That gang rules the streets, dropping opponents with guns, bombs and other weapons.
  10. (transitive) To set down (someone or something) from a vehicle; to stop and deliver or deposit (someone or something); to drop off.
    • Could you drop me at the airport on your way to work tomorrow?
    • I’ll be dropping the parcel at your place later.
  11. (transitive) To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.
    1. (transitive) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
  12. (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over (someone or something); to have nothing more to do with (a discussion, subject, etc.).
    • I’m tired of this subject. Will you just drop it?
    • They suddenly dropt the pursuit.1739, Samuel Sharp, A Treatise on the Operations of Surgery
  13. (transitive) To dispose or get rid of (something); to lose, to remove.
    • I dropped ten pounds and an obnoxious fiancée.
  14. (transitive) To cease to include (something), as if on a list; to dismiss, to eject, to expel.
    • I’ve been dropped from the football team.
    • If Carly Telford’s replacement of Karen Bardsley, because of a hamstring injury, was enforced, the switch to 4-4-1-1 was not. This new-look configuration saw Rachel Daly deployed in front of Lucy Bronze down the right, Toni Duggan and Fran Kirby dropped, Beth Mead introduced on the left and Nikita...2019 July 2, Louise Taylor, The Guardian
  15. (transitive) To cancel or cease to participate in (a scheduled course, event, or project).
    • I had to drop calculus because it was taking up too much of my time.
    • The specialists she had taken her daughter to see attributed her collection of symptoms to the lingering effect of the many concussions she suffered playing sports. She had at least one concussion every year since she was in the fourth grade. Because of her frequent head injuries, her parents made...2022 October 13, Lisa Sanders, M.D., “She Suffered From Headaches and Fatigue. Were Concussions to Blame?”, in The New York Times Magazine
  16. (slang, transitive) To lose, spend, or otherwise part with (money).
    • My friends went to the football game, but I skipped, as I had just dropped a lot of money on a new bike wheel.
    • The question was: Who put the most in the collection box? The wealthy guy, who dropped a “C” note, or the tattered old dame who parted with her last tarnished penny.1949, The Atlantian, volume 8, Atlanta: United States Penitentiary, page 41
  17. (slang, transitive) To pass or use (counterfeit cheques, money, etc.).
  18. (slang, transitive) To impart (something).
    • I drop knowledge wherever I go.
  19. (slang, transitive) Especially in drop acid: to swallow (a drug, particularly LSD).
  20. (colloquial, transitive) To release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public.
    • They dropped the album Hip-Hop Xmas in time for the holidays.
    • That hacker has been threatening to drop my docs [i.e. publish my personal information].
  21. (transitive) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.).
    • Cockneys drop their aitches.
  22. (transitive) To play (a portion of music) in the manner of a disc jockey.
    • I love it when he drops his funky beats.
    • That guy can drop the bass like a monster.
  23. (transitive) To perform (rap music).
    • Yo, I drop rhymes like nobody’s business.
  24. (transitive) To (unexpectedly) lose (a competition, game, etc.).
  25. (transitive) Of a fielder: to fail to dismiss (a batsman) by accidentally dropping a batted ball that had initially been caught.
    • Warne dropped Tendulkar on 99. Tendulkar went on to get a century next ball.
  26. (transitive) To score (a goal) by means of a drop kick.
  27. (archaic, transitive) To cover (something) with or as if with drops, especially of a different colour; to bedrop, to variegate.
    • their waved coats dropped with gold1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker...
  28. (intransitive) To enter a more basic interface.
    • Next, you drop to a shell.
  29. (transitive) To present (the user) with a more basic interface.
    • The next step drops the user to a recovery shell.
  30. (Singapore, US, ergative, slang) To make someone, or be made to do push-ups or some other form of exercise on the ground as punishment.
    • Drop and give me 20, now!
    Synonyms:
    knock it down
  31. (slang, transitive, restaurant) To bring a check to a table.

Also used as

drop is also the ellipsis of drop hammer or drop press.

drop is also the ellipsis of drop-back.

drop is also the ellipsis of drop target.

drop is also the ellipsis of drop kick.

drop is also the ellipsis of drop shot.

drop meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

drop in Hindi

small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension
बूंद būnd

drop in Tamil

small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension
துளி tuḷi

drop in Marathi

small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension
थेंब themba
dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop
थेंब themba

drop in Urdu

small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension
بوند būnd, قطرہ qatra
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drop in Bengali
বিন্দু bindu
drop in Telugu
పడు paḍu, పడిపోవు paḍipōvu, తొలగించు tolagiñcu, వదిలించుకొను vadiliñcukonu
drop in Malayalam
തുള്ളി tuḷḷi
drop in Kannada
ಹನಿ hani
drop in Assamese
টোপাল tüpal, পেলা pela
drop in Nepali
थोपा thopā, खस्नु khasnu, खसाउनु khasāunu, खस्न दिनु khasna dinu
drop in Pashto
قطره qatrá, زرامی zrāmáy, دړی daṛáy, څاڅکى cãckay
drop in Tagalog
kayat, regalis
drop in Arabic
قَطْرَة qaṭra, نُقْطَة nuqṭa, أَسْقَطَ ʔasqaṭa
drop in Malay
titis, likuoris
drop in Persian
قطره qatre, چِکّه čekke, ژیگ žig
drop in Thai
หยด yòt, ชะเอมเทศ chá-eem-têet
drop in Vietnamese
giọt, buông rơi
drop in Myanmar
အစက် a.cak
Sindhi
ڦُڙو Phurro

Examples of drop in a sentence

  • They didn’t show a drop of remorse
  • Watch for the temperature to drop sharply, then you’ll know the reaction is complete.
  • The equipment shows how much the glacier has moved and the amount it dropped in height over the summer.
  • A circular horizontal surface of indefinite diameter gave a drop of water weighing 2·10 grains.1864 March, T[homas] Tate, “XXX. On the Magnitude of a Drop of Liquid Formed under Different Circumstances.”, in David Brewster, Robert...
  • The eye is able to hold only about 20 percent of the amount of fluid in a standard eye drop.2009, Mark A[llan] Goldstein, Myrna Chandler Goldstein, Larry P. Credit, “Glaucoma [Tipes for Using Eye Drops]”, in Your Best Medicine...
  • BAZARIN: Zoya Sergeevna, just a drop more tea, if you would. / ZOYA SERGEEVNA: (pouring tea) Do you want it strong?1994, Yvonne Howell, “Introduction”, in Apocalyptic Realism: The Science Fiction of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Russian and East European...

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Synonyms of drop

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Forms of drop

Noun
pluraldrops
alternative pronunciation-spellingdrap
Verb
third-person singular presentdrops
present participledropping
past participledropped
pastdropped
past participle (archaic)dropt
past (archaic)dropt
second-person singular present (archaic)droppest
second-person singular past (archaic)droppedst
third-person singular present (archaic)droppeth

Past tense of drop: dropped

Plural of drop: drops

Origin of drop

From Late Middle English droppe, Middle English drope (“small quantity of liquid; small or least amount of something; pendant jewel; dripping of a liquid; a shower; nasal flow, catarrh; speck, spot; blemish; disease causing spots on the skin”) [and other forms], from Old English dropa (“a drop”), from Proto-West Germanic *dropō (“drop (of liquid)”), from Proto-Germanic *drupô (“drop (of liquid)”),, from *dreupaną (“to drip, droop”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrebʰ- (“to drip, drop”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Droupe, Druppe (“drop”), Dutch drop, drup (“droplet”), German Tropfen (“drop”), German Low German Drüpp (“drop”), Luxembourgish Drëps (“drop”), Vilamovian tropa, troppa (“drop”), Yiddish טראָפּן (tropn, “drop”), Danish dråbe (“drop”), Faroese and Icelandic dropi (“drop”), Norwegian Bokmål dråpe (“drop”), Norwegian Nynorsk drope (“drop”), Swedish droppe (“drop”).

From Middle English droppen, dropen (“to fall in drops, drip or trickle down; to scatter, sprinkle; to be covered with a liquid; to give off moisture; of an object: to drop, fall; of a living being: to fall to the ground”) [and other forms], from Old English droppian, dropian (“to drop”), from Proto-West Germanic *dropōn, from Proto-Germanic *drupōną (“to fall in drops, drip”), ultimately from *dreupaną (“to hang, droop; drop, drip”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrebʰ- (“to drip, drop”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian drippe (“to drip”), Dutch druipen (“to drip”), German triefen (“to drip”), Yiddish טריפֿן (trifn, “to drip”), Icelandic drjúpa (“to drip”), Norwegian Nynorsk drjupa, drypa, drype (“to drip”), Swedish drypa (“to drip”).

Words formed from drop

Phrases with drop

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Words that rhyme with drop

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Questions about drop

What does drop mean?
Drop means a small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own rounded shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
What is drop in Hindi?
Drop in Hindi is बूंद (būnd). See Drop meaning in Hindi.
How do you use drop in a sentence?
They didn’t show a drop of remorse
What part of speech is drop?
Drop can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce drop?
Drop is pronounced /dɹɒp/ (UK).
What is the plural of drop?
The plural of drop is drops.

Words near drop in the dictionary

  1. droopsnoot
  2. droopsnoots
  3. droopy
  4. drooth
  5. droozy
  6. drop
  7. drop a bollock
  8. drop a bomb
  9. drop a bombshell
  10. drop a brick
  11. drop a chalupa

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