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drop¹
- /dɹɒp/ UK
- /dɹɑp/ US
- [dɹɑp] US
- [d͡ʒɹɑp] sometimes, US
Rhymes with -ɒp
Where it comes from
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”).
noun drops · drap
- 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 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.
- A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1). ear drops eye drops
- A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything. My aunt asked for just a drop more tea.
- 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.
- 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.
- A single measure of whisky.
- Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop or piece of licorice; a lozenge.
- An ornament resembling a pendant; a gutta.
- 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.
- 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.
- A dropped pass. Yet another drop for the Tiger tight end.
- 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.
- An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ellipsis of drop hammer or drop press.drop hammer or drop press
- 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[…]).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 i
- 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.
- Usually preceded by the: relegation from one division to a lower one.
- Ellipsis of drop-back.drop-back The Tiger quarterback took a one-step drop, expecting his tight end to be open.
- Ellipsis of drop target.drop target
- Ellipsis of drop kick.drop kick
- Ellipsis of drop shot.drop shot
- 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.
- An unsolicited credit card issue.
- A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate. The drop in demand for oil resulted in a drop in prices.
- Of men's clothes: the difference between the chest circumference and waist circumference.
- Of women's clothes: the difference between the bust circumference and hip circumference.
- 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.
- The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
- The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
- The distance that a person drops when being executed by hanging.
- 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.
- 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.
- Only used in get the drop on, have the drop on: an advantage.
- 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 o
- An automobile with a drop-top roof, a convertible.
- 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.'
drop²
- /dɹɒp/ UK
- /dɹɑp/ US
- [dɹɑp] US
- [d͡ʒɹɑp] sometimes, US
Rhymes with -ɒp
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰrebʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *druppōną
Proto-West Germanic *dropōn
Old English dropian
Middle English droppen
English 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”).
verb drops · dropping · dropped · dropt
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- To fall or sink quickly or suddenly to the ground. Drop and give me thirty push-ups, private!
- 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!
- To fall into a particular condition or state.
- 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.
- To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc. The stock dropped 1.5% yesterday.
- 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.
- Of a voice: to lower in timbre, often due to puberty. Billy’s voice dropped suddenly when he turned 12.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- To drop out of the betting. But more important, if I dropped, Marty would have won the hand automatically.
- Of the testicles: to hang further away from the body and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
- To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops. The heavens […] dropped at the presence of God.
- 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.
- 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.
- Of a defeated enemy or container: To leave behind an item that the player can collect. The monsters drop health pickups when killed.
- 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.
- To quickly lower or take down (one's trousers), especially in public.
- 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.
- 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.
- Of an animal (usually a sheep): to give birth to (young); of a bird: to lay (an egg). to drop a lamb
- To mention (something) casually or incidentally, usually in conversation. The lecturer would drop hints whenever the students struggled.
- 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.
- 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!
- 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?
- To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.
- To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
- 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?
- To dispose or get rid of (something); to lose, to remove. I dropped ten pounds and an obnoxious fiancée.
- To cease to include (something), as if on a list; to dismiss, to eject, to expel. I’ve been dropped from the football team.
- 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.
- 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.
- To pass or use (counterfeit cheques, money, etc.).
- To impart (something). I drop knowledge wherever I go.
- Especially in drop acid: to swallow (a drug, particularly LSD).
- 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.
- To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.). Cockneys drop their aitches.
- To play (a portion of music) in the manner of a disc jockey. I love it when he drops his funky beats.
- To perform (rap music). Yo, I drop rhymes like nobody’s business.
- To (unexpectedly) lose (a competition, game, etc.).
- 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.
- To score (a goal) by means of a drop kick.
- To cover (something) with or as if with drops, especially of a different colour; to bedrop, to variegate. their waved coats dropped with gold
- To enter a more basic interface. Next, you drop to a shell.
- To present (the user) with a more basic interface. The next step drops the user to a recovery shell.
- 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!
- To bring a check to a table.
