Word Finder - drop

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A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape via surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.

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Put three drops of oil into the mixture.

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A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.

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asked for just a drop more tea; she was thirsty and there wasn't a drop of water to be found

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(now especially with "the") Alcoholic spirits in general.

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It doesn't matter where you're from; anyone who enjoys the drop is a friend of mine.

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That which resembles or hangs like a liquid globule: a hanging diamond ornament or earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, etc.

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A thing which drops or hangs down:

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A fall, descent; an act or instance of dropping.

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That was a long drop, but fortunately I didn't break any bones.

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A release (of music, a vdeo game, etc).

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A decline in quantity, quality, rate, or degree; a decline (when going from one value to another).

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a drop in demand for oil resulted in a drop in prices

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A thing, person, etc which is dropped:

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An unsolicited credit card issue.

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The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino.

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The distance below a cliff or other high position into which someone or something could fall; the distance to which someone or something drops; a steep slope.

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On one side of the road was a 50-foot drop.

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The vertical length of a hanging curtain.

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The depth of a (square) sail (generally applied to the courses only); the vertical dimension of a sail.

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The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.

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A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, whether openly (as with a mail drop) or secretly or illegaly (as in espionage or crime); a drop-off point.

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I left the plans at the drop, like you asked.

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A drop-back.

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The Tiger quarterback took a one-step drop, expecting his tight end to be open.

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(Rugby football) A drop-kick.

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A drop target.

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To fall in droplets (of a liquid).

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To drip (a liquid).

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The equipment shows how much the glacier has moved and the amount it dropped in height over the summer.

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Generally, to fall (straight down).

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A single shot was fired and the bird dropped from the sky.

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To let fall; to allow to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).

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Don't drop that plate!   The police ordered the men to drop their weapons.

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To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.

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To lower; to move to a lower position.

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To set down from a vehicle; to deliver or deposit by stopping.

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Could you drop me at the airport on your way to work tomorrow?

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• drop off

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To sink quickly to the ground.

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Drop and give me thirty push-ups, private!

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To fall dead, or to fall in death.

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To come to an end (by not being kept up); to stop.

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To mention casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.

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The moderator would drop hints whenever the students struggled.

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To part with or spend (money).

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To cease concerning oneself over; to have nothing more to do with (a subject, discussion etc.).

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I'm tired of this subject. Will you just drop it?

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To lessen, decrease, or diminish in value, condition, degree, etc.

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The stock dropped 1.5% yesterday.   We can take our vacation when the price of fuel drops.   Watch for the temperature to drop sharply, then you'll know the reaction is complete.

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To let (a letter etc.) fall into a postbox; to send (a letter or message) in an offhand manner.

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Drop me a note when you get to the city.

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To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot etc.; to bring down, to shoot down.

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Make any sudden movements and I will drop you!

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To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter etc.).

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Cockneys drop their aitches.

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(of a fielder) To fail to make a catch from a batted ball that would have led to the batsman being out.

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Warne dropped Tendulkar on 99. Tendulkar went on to get a century next ball

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To swallow (a drug), particularly LSD.

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They had never dropped acid.

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To dispose (of); get rid of; to remove; to lose.

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I dropped ten pounds and an obnoxious fiancée.

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To eject; to dismiss; to cease to include, as if on a list.

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I've been dropped from the football team.

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To drop out of the betting.

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(rugby football) To score (a goal) by means of a drop kick.

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To impart.

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I drop knowledge wherever I go.

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To release to the public.

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That hacker has been threatening to drop my docs [i.e. publish my personal information].

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To play a portion of music in the manner of a disc jockey.

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I love it when he drops his funky beats.

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To enter public distribution.

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"Hip-Hop Xmas" dropped in time for the holidays.

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To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.

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To cancel or end a scheduled event, project or course.

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I had to drop calculus because it was taking up too much of my time and I couldn't go anymore.

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(fast food) To cook, especially by deep-frying or grilling.

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Drop a basket of fries.

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(of a voice) To lower in timbre, often relating to puberty.

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Billy's voice dropped suddenly when he turned 12.

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(of a sound or song) To lower in pitch, tempo, key, or other quality.

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My synthesizer makes the notes sound funny when they drop below C2.

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(of people) To visit informally; used with in or by.

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Do drop by soon and I'll lend you that book.

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To give birth to.

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to drop a lamb

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To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.

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(of the testicles) To hang lower and begin producing sperm due to puberty.

Can you just drop me off near the mall?

I promise to drop in and see you the very next time I'm up this way.

Gotta drop someone a visit.

I drop by on occasion to check on my father's restaurants, he said with a quick glance around.

If the turnip is dry, it is watered, each drop carefully metered out.

She let her head drop back and sighed.

She let the subject drop.

He saw his sister drop after the strike of a sword.

She hoped he'd drop the subject, that they could start over.

I could drop off the radar for a time.

He paid each day and he didn't drop off his rent.

You're asking me to drop everything when I'm so close to achieving my goal.

And now, if you don't drop out of the election, you've got an opponent who despises you!

Katie wants to keep Destiny today, so I'll drop her off and then take Jonathan to the school for his field trip when I go for the conference.

Backing the car up, she watched the man with the sword drop to his knees and slowly stand.

You'd really better drop it all.

Rhyn, can you drop by the lake and bring a couple sets of clothes?

If it was so simple, Andre wouldn't be trying to drop a hint without betraying the confidence of Deidre.

In recent apparatus, to enable it to be used on board ship, a hydrogeneous spirit is used which is fed drop by drop into the chamber in which the arc is worked.

Technically, if you drop a shackle from above waste height you should put a hacksaw through it.

In the past, impetuous young men would drop out of college and run off to join the army.

Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.

A trip back to the house to drop off the eggs revealed a house still silent.

Maybe everyone else is hyper to drop everything and hop a plane but I'm not going anywhere!

A drop in serum potassium may account for some of the symptoms.

But when it grows in dense woods, where the lower branches decay and drop off early, only a small head of foliage remaining at the tapering summit, its stem, though frequently of great height, is rarely more than 11 or 2 ft.

In doing so they drop a wooden soul-token called a Churinga.

South Bethlehem is the see of a Protestant Episcopal bishop. The Bethlehem Steel Company manufactures here iron and steel, including Bessemer steels, armour plate, steel rails, government ordnance, drop forgings, iron and steel castings, stationary engines, gas engines, hydraulic pumps, projectiles, steel shaft and pig iron; zinc is smelted and refined; and there are large hosiery and knitting mills, and silk mills and cigar factories.

The track starts as an eerie roller but at the drop changes into a dark, amen drum, floor smasher.

Kel accidentally spills a drop of orange soda on it.

Now add 2M sodium hydroxide, drop by drop, noting any color change.

They had asked for four clinical nurse specialists although this was a drop in the ocean in Sussex.

Work up some saliva and drop a spittle on top of the water and observe.

Liam avoided this fate by having to drop out at about 27 miles due to a sudden pain that he suspected was shin splints.

The Yankee States, of which he is so staunch a subject, are but a drop in the bucket.

After the Yorkshire Pudding has been baking for 10 minutes drop the marinated steaks into the part baked batter.

They can hear a pin drop.

We put and call C the ballistic coefficient (driving power) of the shot, so that (6) At = COT, where (7) AT = Av/gp, and AT is the time in seconds for the velocity to drop Av of the standard shot for which C = I, and for which the ballistic table is calculated.

The chat room may get a little steamy, so you'll have to drop by if you want to see what's happening!

Place adverts in shop windows and local papers, consider a leaflet drop which is proving very successful at the moment.

Drop tablespoonfuls of the batter into the pan, well spaced out.

Drop down the scree to the valley and across easy ground to pass the tarns.

Then grease two baking trays and drop heaped teaspoonfuls onto them, leaving a little space for expansion.

If he didn't, he was likely to drop dead during his furious tirades against the Bread Tax.

Get smashed, drop a pill, smoke a joint, shoot up or snort a line; who 's to blame?

These boards have become nothing but turgid rubbish, no wonder people left them and others hardly drop in anymore.

While a female may bite to protect her egg sac, most of the time both sexes will simply drop to the ground and disappear when threatened.

We can thus measure as described the drop in volts down a known fraction of the whole high resistance and therefore calculate the fall in potential down the whole of the high resistance, which is the potential difference required.

For this purpose a resistance, say, of one ohm is placed in series with the lamp and a resistance of 100,000 ohms placed across the terminals of the lamp; the latter resistance is divided into two parts, one consisting of loon ohms and the other of 99,000 ohms. The potentiometer enables us to measure therefore the current through the lamp by measuring the drop in volts down a resistance in series with it and the potential difference of the terminals of the lamp by measuring the drop in volts down the tooth part of the high resistance of 100,000 ohms connected across the terminals of the lamp.

The usual method is to make a mixture of amorphous phosphorus and a large excess of iodine and then to allow water to drop slowly upon it; the reaction starts readily, and the gas obtained can be freed from any admixed iodine vapour by passing it through a tube containing some amorphous phosphorus.