Meaning of drop | Babel Free

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1. 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
2. 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, figuratively
3. A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1)
4. A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1).
   also, figuratively
5. Football To back away from the line of scrimmage.
   Football
6. A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1)
7. A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1).
   also, figuratively, in-plural
8. To fall behind: dropped behind the rest of the class during her illness.
9. A very small quantity of liquid, or of anything
10. A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.
    figuratively
11. To stop in for a short visit.
12. A small amount of an alcoholic beverage
13. A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
    Australia, British, figuratively
14. To make a telephone call, especially to the police to inform on or betray someone.
15. Usually preceded by the: alcoholic spirits in general.
    British, figuratively
16. A small, inadequate quantity.
17. A single measure of whisky.
    Ireland, figuratively, informal
18. To make a mistake or fail to do something important.
19. That which hangs or resembles a liquid globule, such as a hanging diamond earring or ornament, a glass pendant on a chandelier, etc.
20. Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop; a lozenge.
21. To achieve a distinct advantage over.
22. An ornament resembling a pendant; a gutta.
23. To go to or seek out the company of in order to socialize:call, come by, come over, drop in, look in, look up, pop in, run in, see, stop (by or in), visit.
    or
24. A thing which drops or hangs down.
25. 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.
26. To decline, as in value or quantity, very gradually:fall off, sag, slip.
27. A fruit which has fallen off a tree, etc., or has been knocked off accidentally, rather than picked.
28. a tiny drop. droplets of rain. druppeltjie قَطْرَه صَغيرَه капчица gotinha kapička das Tröpfchen lille dråbe σταγονίτσαgotita piisake قطره کوچک pieni pisara gouttelette טִיפָּה קְטָנָה छोटी बूंद sićušne kapi kiše cseppecske titikan smádropi gocciolina 小滴 작은 (물)방울 lašelis pilīte titikan druppeltjeliten dråpekropelka وړه څاڅكى gotinha picătură (mică) капелька kvapôčka kapljica kapljica liten droppe หยดน้อย ๆ damla 小滴 крапелька چھوٹے قطرے giọt nhỏ 微滴
29. A dropped pass.
30. A trapdoor (“hinged platform”) on a gallows; a gallows itself.
31. An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.
    Internet
32. 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.
33. An overhead electrical line running from a utility pole to a customer's building or other premises.
34. Ellipsis of drop hammer or drop press.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
35. A curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; also, a section of (cloth) scenery lowered on to the stage like a curtain.
36. An act or instance of dropping (in all senses).
37. An act of moving downwards under the force of gravity; a descent, a fall.
38. 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.
39. A release (of music, a video game, etc).
40. The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino.
41. Preceded by the: execution by hanging.
    informal
42. Usually preceded by the: relegation from one division to a lower one.
43. Ellipsis of drop-back.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
44. Ellipsis of drop target.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
45. Ellipsis of drop kick.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
46. Ellipsis of drop shot.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
47. A near vertical decent down the face of a breaking wave.
48. An unsolicited credit card issue.
    US, dated
49. A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.
50. Of men's clothes: the difference between the chest circumference and waist circumference.
51. Of women's clothes: the difference between the bust circumference and hip circumference.
52. The distance through which something drops, or falls below a certain level.
53. The distance below a cliff or other high position through which someone or something could fall; hence, a steep slope.
54. The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
55. The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
56. The distance that a person drops when being executed by hanging.
57. The depth of a (square) sail (generally applied to the courses only); the vertical dimension of a sail.
58. 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.
59. Only used in get the drop on, have the drop on: an advantage.
    informal
60. 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.
61. Licorice in confectionery form.
62. An automobile with a drop-top roof, a convertible.
    US, slang
63. A place (specified by an ordinal) in the batting order after the openers.

Equivalents

Examples

“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 diameter. The drop in this case is always formed at the centre of the surface, this being the centre of the greatest molecular attraction amongst the liquid particles.”

“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.”

“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 and will reduce waste.”

“ear drops    eye drops”

“My aunt asked for just a drop more tea.”

“He was thirsty but there wasn’t a drop of water to be found”

“They didn’t show a drop of remorse”

“BAZARIN: Zoya Sergeevna, just a drop more tea, if you would. / ZOYA SERGEEVNA: (pouring tea) Do you want it strong?”

“Finally she landed the role, and glory be to God, her best friend Melanie landed the role of Anne's best friend. Not one drop of help did she get from her showbiz parents, who were far too preoccupied with the shape of twenty-four table centre-pieces, […]”

“He usually enjoys a drop after dinner.    She won’t touch a drop while she’s on duty.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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, once the apples are gone, gnaw on the roots of apple trees.”

“But in the fall, when apples are abundant and cheap, I like to make my own [applesauce]. I'll often buy a few bags of "drops" just for this purpose. Drops are apples that have fallen from the trees instead of being picked. They're less expensive since they might have a bruise or two, but otherwise they're fresh nd juicy.”

“Biologically based IPM goes further by integrating orchard practices for common gain. Thus, in a second-level IPM orchard, sprays are withheld after June to allow beneficial insect populations to rebuild; summer maggot fly incursions are trapped at the border; drops are removed to limit in-orchard pest pupation; and fall sanitation is used to reduce disease inoculum the following spring.”

“Drops are often considered the same as windfalls, and some people insist that any fruit that has fallen to the ground—no matter for how short a time—should not be used for making cider. […] Drops, on the other hand [unlike windfalls], are fruits that have sat around on the ground for a longer period of time—typically a day or more.”

“Yet another drop for the Tiger tight end.”

“As the prisoners prepared to leave, they had seen Dan and Steve standing together in the breezeway, ‘for all the world like two condemned prisoners on the drop’.”

“Crook: "I'll find the killers for you, I swear." / Cop: "So why didn't you?" / Crook: "I'm scared of 'em." / Cop: "More than the drop?" / Crook: "Aye. Maybe."”

“Do a drop for the telephone gang, then another drop for the Internet gang, both through the ceiling of the wiring closet.”

“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[…]).”

“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.”

“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.”

“The delivery driver has to make three more drops before lunch.”

“The spy made the drop, leaving the plans under the tree as arranged.”

“That was how a drug deal went down? […] Karl shook his head and pulled away from the curb, heading for his next drop and feeling distinctly uncomfortable about the mass of cash now keeping the drugs in his bags company.”

“2002 saw the drop of a new album whose title riffed on the many magazine cover stories calling Sum 41's music infectious.”

“Turned out this was the drop party for popster Effigy's latest release, BeatMeKickMeHoldMe.”

“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 it doesn't tell you how many bets were made with those chips.”

“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.”

“[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.”

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

“You take off, make the steep drop, hear the white water rumbling behind you and feel the spray on your back.”

“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.”

“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 was even slightly injured.”

“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.”

“Her mainyard was 80 feet long, and her mainsail had a drop of 40 feet.”

“Because this natural bulging was not adequate, the sails were deliberately made to round outward by cutting the cloths longer than necessary for the drop of the sail.”

“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.”

“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 on techno blasts and garish dubstep drops (and occasionally grind on some AutoTune, not necessarily because it needs it, but because a certain amount of robo-voice is expected these days).”

“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 drop in her Max-Martin-Produced track “I Knew You Were Trouble.””

“`Well what about first drop then? Garner will be on by then, I'll smash him all over the park.'”

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