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Definition: Drop |
DropNoun1. A small quantity of liquid; "one drop of each sample was analyzed"; "any child with a drop of negro blood was legally a negro". 2. A shape that is small and round; "he studied the shapes of low-viscosity drops"; "beads of sweat on his forehead". 3. A sudden sharp decrease in some quantity: "a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index"; "there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery"; "when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall". 4. A predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property). 5. A free and rapid descent by the force of gravity; "it was a miracle that he survived the drop from that height". 6. A curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage. 7. A central depository where things can be left or picked up. 8. The act of dropping something; "they expected the drop would be successful". Verb1. Let fall to the ground; "Don't drop the dishes". 2. To fall vertically: "the bombs are dropping on enemy targets". 3. Go down in value; "Stock prices dropped". 4. Fall or drop to a lower place or level; "He sank to his knees.". 5. Terminate an association with; "drop him from the Republican ticket". 6. Utter casually; "drop a hint". 7. Stop pursuing or acting; "drop a lawsuit"; "knock it off!". 8. Leave or unload, esp. of passengers or cargo;. 9. Cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow; "strike down a tree"; "Lightning struck down the hikers". 10. : of games, in sports: "The Giants dropped 11 of their first 13". 11. : pay out; "spend money". 12. : lower the pitch of (musical notes). 13. : hang freely; "the ornaments dangled from the tree"; "The light dropped from the ceiling". 14. : stop associating with; "They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock". 15. : get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss". 16. : leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten". 17. : change from one level to another; "She dropped into army jargon". 18. : grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated". 19. : give birth; used for animals; "The cow dropped her calf this morning". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "drop" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A transverse structure which lowers the water level along its course. Source: European Union. (references) |
Fine Arts | A strip of curtain stretched horizontally across the front top of the stage. . . used to form the top of a setting and mask the flies. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A portion of molten refined glass which is either delivered by feeder or gathered on a gathering iron for fabrication into a glass object. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Drop To take a drop. A euphemism for taking what the drinker chooses to call by that term. It may be anything from a sip to a Dutchman's draught. A drop of the cratur. In Ireland means a drink of whisky, or "creature-comfort." To take a drop too much. To be intoxicated. If it is the "last feather which breaks the camel's back," it is the drop too much which produces intoxication. To take one's drops. To drink spirits in private. Drop (To). To drop an acquaintance is quietly to cease visiting and inviting an acquaintance. The opposite of picking up or taking up an acquaintance. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Military | In artillery and naval gunfire support, a correction used by an observer/spotter to indicate that a decrease in range along a spotting line is desired. (references) |
Mining | A. Granulated material obtained by pouring melted material into water b. In the roof of a coal seam, a funnel-shaped downward intrusion of sedimentary rock, usually sandstone. See also:stone intrusio c. The vertical displacement in a downthrow fault; the amount by which the seam is lower on the other side of the fault d. In an air lift, the distance the water level sinks below the static head during pumping e. The small downward descent of the upper section of a drill rod, casing, or pipe into a lower like section when the threads of the box- and pin-threaded parts match, so that upper and lower sections may be screwed together without cross-threading f. The sudden descent of a bit that occurs when a bit encounters a cavity or cuts through a hard rock and enters a very soft rock g. To lower drill-string equipment into a borehole h. To lower the cage to receive or discharge the car when a cage of more than one deck is used i. To allow the upper lift of a seam of coal to fall or drop down. (references) |
Personal Care & Hotels | The vertical distance between the base of the outlet and the bottom of the air stream at the end of its throw. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | DROP. The new drop; a contrivance for executing felons at Newgate, by means of a platform, which drops from under them: this is also called the last drop. See LEAF. See MORNING DROP. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
See also drop (telecommunication).
A drop is a small volume of liquid, bounded almost completely by free surfaces. The simplest way to form a drop is to allow liquid to flow slowly from the lower end of a vertical tube of small diameter. When the pendant drop exceeds a certain size it is no longer stable and detaches itself. Drops may also be formed by the condensation of a supercooled vapor or by atomization of a larger mass of liquid. The weight of the largest drop that can hang from the end of a tube of radius a is nearly
where λ is the surface tension of the liquid and α is the angle of contact with the tube. This relationship is the basis of a convenient method of measuring surface tension.
- mg=2πaλ cos α
Due to raindrops there is sometimes a rainbow.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Drop."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In telecommunication, the term drop has the following meanings:
Source: from Federal Standard 1037C in support of MIL-STD-188
- In a communications network, the portion of a device directly connected to the internal station facilities, such as toward a switchboard or toward a switching center.
- The central office side of test jacks.
- A wire or cable from a pole or cable terminus to a building.
- To delete, intentionally or unintentionally, or to lose part of a signal, such as dropping bits from a bit stream.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Drop (telecommunication)."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DROP | English | Debt Reduction Operations | Finance |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: DropSynonyms: bead (n), driblet (n), drop cloth (n), drop curtain (n), fall (n), free fall (n), pearl (n), cast (v), cast off (v), cut down (v), dangle (v), degenerate (v), deteriorate (v), discharge (v), dismiss (v), drop down (v), expend (v), fell (v), flatten (v), knock off (v), leave out (v), miss (v), neglect (v), omit (v), overleap (v), overlook (v), pretermit (v), put down (v), send away (v), send packing (v), set down (v), shake off (v), shed (v), sink (v), spend (v), strike down (v), swing (v), throw (v), throw away (v), throw off (v), unload (v). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: drop-ins (computing, post & telecom). |
| Antonyms: attend to (v), recuperate (v), rise (v), sharpen (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cessation | Intermission, remission; suspense, suspension; interruption; stop; stopping; Verb: closure, stoppage, halt; arrival. pause, rest, lull, respite, truce, drop; interregnum, abeyance; cloture. |
Descent | Verb: descend; go down, drop down, come down; fall, gravitate, drop, slip, slide, rappel, settle; plunge, plummet, crash; decline, set, sink, droop, come down a peg; slump. |
Noun: descent, descension, declension, declination; fall; falling; Verb:: slump; drop, plunge, plummet, cadence; subsidence, collapse, lapse; downfall, tumble, slip, tilt, trip, lurch; cropper, culbute; stumble; fate of Icarus. | |
Drunkenness | Drink; alcoholic drinks; blue ruin, grog, port wine; punch, punch bowl; cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl; drop, drop too much; dram; beer; (beverage); aguardiente; apple brandy, applejack; brandy, brandy smash; chain lightning, champagne, gin, ginsling; highball, peg, rum, rye, schnapps, sherry, sling, uisquebaugh, usquebaugh, whisky, xeres. |
Fatigue | Verb: be fatigued; Adjective: yawn; (get sleepy); droop, sink, flag; lose breath, lose wind; gasp, pant, puff, blow, drop, swoon, faint, succumb. |
Impotence | Collapse, faint, swoon, fall into a swoon, drop; go by the board, go by the wayside; go up in smoke, end in smoke; (fail). |
Noncompletion | Verb: not complete; leave unfinished; Adjective:, leave undone, drop, put down; neglect; let alone, let slip; lose sight of (forget). |
Production | Flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle; bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world. |
Relinquishment | Verb: relinquish, give up, surrender, yield, cede; let go, let slip; spare, drop, resign, forego, renounce, abandon, expropriate, give away, dispose of, part with; lay aside, lay apart, lay down, lay on the shelf; (disuse); set aside, put aside, put away; make away with, cast behind; maroon. |
Renounce; (abjure); forego, have done with, drop; disuse; discard; wash one's hands of; drop all idea of. | |
River | Verb: flow, run; meander; gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue; drop, drip, dribble, plash, spirtle, trill, trickle, distill, percolate; stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash; guggle, murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgle, sputter, spurt, spray, regurgitate; ooze, flow out. (egress). |
Rotundity | Sphere, globe, ball, boulder, bowlder; spheroid, ellipsoid; oblong spheroid; oblate spheroid, prolate spheroid; drop, spherule, globule, vesicle, bulb, bullet, pellet, pelote, clew, pill, marble, pea, knob, pommel, horn; knot (convolution). |
Scourge | Scaffold; block, ax, guillotine; stake; cross; gallows, gibbet, tree, drop, noose, rope, halter, bowstring; death chair, electric chair; gas chamber; lethal injection; firing squad; mecate. |
Smallness | Small quan modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair. |
The Drama | Flat; drop, drop scene; wing, screen, side scene; transformation scene, curtain, act drop; proscenium. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Drop |
| English words defined with "drop": drop by, Drop by drop, Drop curtain, drop down, Drop forging, Drop hammer, drop in, drop out, Drop press, Drop scene ♦ Life drop ♦ Rupert's drop ♦ Wrist drop. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "drop": baffled outlet pipe drop ♦ cascade drop, combined bridge and drop ♦ drag and drop, Drop a chalupa, drop ball, drop cable, drop clipper, DROP COVES, drop doors, DROP IN THE EYE, drop on the floor, Drop Serene, Drop the Pick ♦ fall drop in series, Fall of the Drop ♦ steepped drop. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "drop": sundrops. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Drop" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (drip, drop), Indonesian (deliver, drop off). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Lord, what I wouldn't give for a drop of good old-fashioned Creole blood (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) Bottom line, she tries to blackmail me, I'll drop her out a higher window (Batman Returns; writing credit: Bob Kane; Daniel Waters) First, we go in there and get wrecked, then we eat a pork pie, then we drop some Surmontil-50's each (Withnail and I; writing credit: Bruce Robinson.) I am doing this to save your ass, but what I really want to do is drop you on it. (Dirty Dancing; writing credit: Eleanor Bergstein.) I can't squeeze a drop without say-so (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont) | |
Lyrics | Bop 'til you drop (Bop Til You Drop; performing artist: The Nylons) Freeze when I squeeze, drop to your knees (Get Ready For This; performing artist: 2 Unlimited) Or you can hang out tha drop while I'm pushin' tha whip (Uh Huh; performing artist: B2K) Maybe I should drop you at your door (At The Stars; performing artist: Better Than Ezra) Yo Dre, drop the verse (No Diggity; performing artist: Blackstreet) | |
Clever | Lansing Residents Can Drop Off Trees (references; author: unknown) A drop of ink may make a million think. (references; author: unknown) If you drop a white glove into the mud, the glove will get muddy, but the mud will never get glovey. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | Do drop in at the Dewdrop Inn. (references; author: unknown) How much dew would a dew drop drop, if a dew drop did drop dew? (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Drop Dead Darling (1966) The Lemon Drop Kid (1951) Dew Drop Inn (1919) The Scarlet Drop (1918) | |
Song Titles | Bop Till You Drop (performing artist: The Nylons) | |
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![]() | X-24A Powered Flight Drop from B-52. Credit: NASA. | ![]() | X-2 After Drop from B-50 Mothership. Credit: NASA. |
![]() | Loading for a drop on Owens Peak Triangulation party of Lorne G. Taylor. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Sounding machine devised by Robert Hooke Drop glass ball with weight over side Ball disengages when weight hits bottom Known rate of descent and ascent - can then derive depth Never worked right. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | Ringing in the New Year with the drop of a mooring anchor at 00:00:00 on January 1, 1997. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. | ![]() | A drop sampler mounted on the bottom of a shallow draft boat. This sampling device is used to enclose a 1 - m2 area of salt marsh enabling researchers to measure the density of fishes and crustaceans on the marsh surface. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
![]() | Two men drive their horses into the stream to drop wood off at the restoration staging site. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ![]() | AQUARIUS ops: talk bubbles provide remote air, comms and equipment drop points. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
![]() | Loadmasters from the 36th Airlift Squadron, Yokota Air Base, Japan, push out cartons of humanitarian supplies from a C-130 Hercules Dec. 12 during this year's Christmas Drop. Andersen Air Force Base organizes and sponsors the annual event that helps the. | ![]() | Rodeo 2000- C-17 prepares to make a heavy drop. |
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| "Bella drop" by Nije Bitno Commentary: "Igor's downhill pic @ bela." | "Light Drop" by Gamaiel Zavala Commentary: "Same late night cruise." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption |
| Clown sound effect for pretending to drop something which is connected to a string and recovered. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Buddha | A jug fills drop by drop. |
| This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning. | |
Confucius | Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in. |
Dante Alighieri | Less than a drop of blood remains in me that does not tremble; I recognize the signals of the ancient flame. |
Denis Diderot | We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us. |
George E. Danielson | [TryIng to obtain information from Mr. Mitchell was] Like trying to nail a drop of water to the wall. |
Henry Wheeler Shaw | Economy is a savings bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return. |
Horace Walpole | Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold. |
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller | One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | The bonds of this subjection are like the swaddling clothes they art wrapt up in, and supported by, in the weakness of their infancy: age and reason as they grow up, loosen them, till at length they drop quite off, and leave a man at his own free disposal. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | She would not stir a step, nor drop a hint |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | Only I think it must have been raining a little just then, for I found a drop or two on my cheeks |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | But the child did not see fit to let the matter drop. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The sister, accustomed to austerity as she was, felt a drop upon her cheek |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Ready to shed the last drop. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | So now prosperity begins to mellow And drop into the rotten mouth of death |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And then the leaves break out on the trees, and the petals drop from the fruit trees and carpet the earth with pink and white |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Next I saw Hannibal passing the Alps, who told me he had not a drop of vinegar in his camp |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The ball of the human finger is but a drop congealed |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Even one drop of juice from raw chicken meat can infect a person. (references) | |
One beta blocker is an eye drop preparation used to treat glaucoma. (references) | ||
The databases available are listed in the drop box next to "Search." (references) | ||
Business | Tariffs will drop from 4% to 6% on accession. (references) | |
The drop was mostly in government funded projects. (references) | ||
The legal import of fully built automobiles continues to drop. (references) | ||
Children | Guatemala | Poroj continued to threaten the father, but also offered him a bribe to drop the case. (references) |
Kenya | The East African Standard newspaper reported in March that 8,000 girls drop out of school each year due to pregnancy. (references) | |
Algeria | Boys and girls generally receive the same treatment in education, although girls are slightly more likely to drop out. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Nepal | On August 17, the Government announced a decision to drop charges against the three. (references) |
Cameroon | There continued to be allegations that government ministers and other high officials offered to drop criminal libel suits in exchange for cash payments from newspapers or journalists. (references) | |
Russia | Many observers interpreted the protocol as a quid pro quo in which the Government agreed to drop its criminal investigations of Gusinskiy and Media-Most in exchange for receipt by Gazprom of a controlling share in NTV and Media-Most. (references) | |
Economic History | Tunisia | FOOD EXPORTS WERE WEAK, WITH A SHARP DROP IN OLIVE OIL SALES. (references) |
Austria | The drop in 2000 was probably an exception of the general trend. (references) | |
Croatia | The trade deficit is likely to drop slightly in 2001 to $3.4 billion. (references) | |
Human Rights | Cameroon | They point to the significant drop in crime in the region. (references) |
Georgia | Police reportedly approached suspects' families and offered to drop charges in exchange for a bribe. (references) | |
Austria | In May the Carinthian state prosecutor decided to drop the charges against the officers; human rights advocates criticized the decision. (references) | |
Minorities | Lithuania | In March the Lithuanian Jewish Community Board asked the Prosecutor General to drop its case against the daily newspaper Lietuvos Aidas after the director and editor in chief of the daily apologized for a series of anti-Semitic articles they had published in 2000. The President, the Prime Minister, and the journalists' union publicly condemned the articles. (references) |
Political Economy | SWEDEN | Gross government debt is projected to drop to 52.4 percent of GDP in 2001 and to 50.2 in 2002. (references) |
ALGERIA | In 2001, U.S. exports to Algeria decreased by 12 percent from 2000, mostly because of a drop in grain exports (see next paragraph). (references) | |
Trade | Philippines | In 2004, the rate for both goods will drop to five percent. (references) |
Kazakhstan | The number of banks will continue to drop as the National Bank implements policies to raise capital requirements for institutions engaged in banking activities. (references) | |
Bahrain | Imported cars will drop to 15% from 20% in 2001, to 10% in 2002 and 7.5 in 2003. Duties on some essential goods will also be slashed to 5.5% by the end of 2002 from 10% now. (references) | |
Travel | Nigeria | U.S. business representatives need not, however, drop Nigeria from countries to visit. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | Business visitors should arrange their itineraries to allow for long meetings, as traditional Saudis often maintain an "open office" in which they will sign papers, take telephone calls, and converse with friends or colleagues who drop by. Tea, soft drinks, and traditional Saudi coffee are usually offered. (references) | |
Women | Guatemala | More than 50 percent of urban girls and 81 percent of rural girls drop out of school. (references) |
Worker Rights | Nicaragua | In addition, Chentex agreed to rehire 17 other fired CST workers and to drop all ongoing litigation. (references) |
Sri Lanka | A 1995 labor survey of the plantations indicated that half of all children in plantations drop out of school after the fourth grade, leaving a large pool of children between the ages of 10 and 15 available to pursue employment. (references) | |
Kuwait | Employers also reportedly use illegal methods to pressure foreign employees to drop cases against them; such as by withholding their passports, encouraging police intimidation and brutality, and filing criminal charges against them for fabricated crimes, such as theft. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Bill Maher | Those are legal. But marijuana has so far killed none that I've ever known. So I keep saying if we want to legalize marijuana, we have got to start having people drop dead from it. |
Dennis Miller | As a matter of fact, I don't get on until my blood is coursing with enough thorazine to drop an epileptic rhino. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Congress must act this year, or State and local units of government will have to drop programs or raise local taxes. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | There was a drop in productivity and the already-high unemployment rate increased. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | So if their currencies lose their value and go down, then the price of their goods will drop, flooding our market and others with much cheaper goods, which makes it a lot tougher for our people to compete. |
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| "Drop" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 41.57% of the time. "Drop" is used about 4,683 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 41.57% | 1,947 | 4,408 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 41.36% | 1,937 | 4,427 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 17% | 796 | 8,721 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,683 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "drop" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Drop | Last name | 130 | 57,536 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "drop". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Taphath | N/A | Biblical | Drop |
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| Country | Name |
| Japan | Japan Drop Forge Co., Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "drop": a drop in a bucket ♦ a drop in the ocean ♦ a drop of ♦ a drop of wine ♦ act drop ♦ Ague drop ♦ air drop ♦ at the drop of the hat ♦ back drop ♦ baffled outlet pipe drop ♦ be fit to drop ♦ big drop in prices ♦ Black drop ♦ blossom drop ♦ cascade drop ♦ circular drop inlet spillway ♦ combined bridge and drop ♦ cough drop ♦ delayed drop ♦ did you drop him a line? ♦ down to the last drop ♦ drag and drop ♦ drop a bad habit ♦ drop a bomb ♦ drop a brick ♦ drop a clanger ♦ drop a cross ♦ drop a curtsey ♦ drop a curtsy ♦ drop a habit ♦ drop a hint ♦ drop a lawsuit ♦ drop a line ♦ drop a remark about ♦ drop a stitch ♦ drop a word ♦ drop across ♦ drop all idea of ♦ drop altitude ♦ drop anchor ♦ drop arch ♦ drop around ♦ drop asleep ♦ drop astern ♦ drop away ♦ drop back ♦ drop back into a habit ♦ drop ball ♦ drop behind ♦ drop biscuit ♦ drop bombs ♦ drop by ♦ Drop by drop ♦ drop by drops ♦ drop by parachute ♦ drop cable ♦ drop capital ♦ drop chute ♦ drop cloth ♦ drop counter ♦ drop current ♦ Drop curtain ♦ drop dead ♦ drop dead! ♦ drop down ♦ drop down menu ♦ drop earring ♦ drop forge ♦ drop forging ♦ drop goal ♦ Drop hammer ♦ drop handlebars ♦ drop height ♦ drop in ♦ drop in on ♦ drop in on smb. ♦ drop in orders ♦ drop in prices ♦ drop in smb.'s lap ♦ drop in tax revenues ♦ drop in the birthrate ♦ drop in the ocean ♦ drop in value ♦ drop into ♦ drop into a habit ♦ drop it ♦ drop it! ♦ drop keel ♦ Drop kick ♦ Drop lake ♦ drop leaf ♦ Drop letter ♦ drop letter into postbox ♦ drop like a stone ♦ drop like flies ♦ drop line ♦ drop me a line ♦ drop me a line! ♦ drop message ♦ drop of a sail ♦ drop of bitterness. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "drop": drop-ball, drop-dead, drop-down, drop-down list, drop-down menu, drop-down-dead, drop-downs, drop-ended, drop-escape, drop-forge, drop-front, drop-goal, drop-goals, drop-handled, drop-handles, drop-head, drop-in, drop-ins, drop-jaw, drop-kick, drop-kicked, drop-kicks, drop-leaf, drop-leaf table, drop-leafed, drop-leafs, drop-leaved, drop-light, drop-net, drop-of-a-hat, drop-off, drop-off charge, drop-offs, drop-of-water, drop-out, drop-outs, drop-pearl, drop-pounce, drop-scene, drop-shaft, drop-ship, drop-shots, drop-shutter, drop-side, drop-size, drop-stones, drop-style, drop-tank, drop-top, drop-tune, drop-tuned, drop-zone, drop-zones. | |
Ending with "drop": back-drop, drag-and-drop, full-drop, shop-till-you-drop, tear-drop, wing-drop. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
gem drop | 649 | doll drag drop maker | 96 |
drop shipper | 533 | lemon drop | 90 |
back drop | 521 | drop ship wholesaler | 90 |
drop ship | 461 | drop game gem | 87 |
drop | 394 | drop dead fred | 84 |
a drop of water | 370 | wedding back drop | 83 |
drop shipping | 339 | drop box | 82 |
egg drop | 266 | photography back drop | 82 |
drop of jupiter | 257 | egg drop soup recipe | 82 |
rain drop | 208 | voltage drop | 79 |
drop down menu | 208 | drop ship company | 79 |
drop leaf table | 192 | drop dead gorgeous | 73 |
drop ship wholesale | 191 | snow drop | 72 |
foot drop | 182 | drop jupiter lyrics train | 71 |
eye drop | 175 | balloon drop | 71 |
doll drag drop | 159 | wholesale drop shipper | 69 |
drop ceiling | 155 | tear drop trailer | 68 |
egg drop soup | 122 | lemon drop martini | 67 |
drop jupiter lyrics | 122 | drop zone | 67 |
drag and drop | 108 | drag drop n | 65 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "drop"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | afval (apostasy, apostatize, clippings, cuttings, debris, defection, desert, drop out, fall, fall away, lose, lose flesh, lose in weight, parings, refuse, remainder, rest, rubbish, rubble, secede, waste, windfall), verminder (abate, abridge, decrease, diminish, fall, lessen), val (fall). (various references) | |
Albanian | grimë (bit, dash, doit, drachm, dram, fleck, hint, hoot, jiff, jiffy, jot, lick, mite, rag, suspicion, tittle, touch, whit), lë (allow, break off, chuck, cut, dump, give up, grant, jilt, jump, leave, let, let by, Miss, omit, overjump, overleap, Park, pass up, permit, put, quit, release, relinquish, resign, tek pupa, vacate, yield), kuti postare për hedhjen e letrave, humbas (lose, Miss, miss out on, reave, reive, waste), heq (abate, abolish, avert, bereave, blow, call off, cast, clear away, clear out, cross, cut off, cut out, deduct, delete, derogate, detach, detrude, dislodge, dismiss, dismount, divest, do away with, doff, drag, draw, eject, eliminate, erase, exhaust, expel, exscind, extract, gather in, generate, get off, jump, keep off, kill, lift, lift off, move off, off with, omit, oust, peel back, pick off, pull at, pull off, pull out, put aside, put off, relegate, remove, save, scour, scratch, scratch off, scratch out, shake out, shed, skim, skip, soothe, spay, strike off, strip, subtract, swing, take away, take off, take out, tear away, throw out, turn away, undergo, unhang, unhook, unpin, unstring), hedhje (Bob, buck, cast, chuck, dart, dash, disposal, fling, flirt, hop, hurl, jerk, launch, leap, lunge, lurch, pitch, pounce, precipitation, projection, put, skip, throw, throwing, toss), hedh pikë-pikë (drip), çikë (atom, bit, doit, drachm, dram, dribblet, hoot, jot, near, scrap, tithe, tittle, whit), hedh (aim, cast, cheat, chuck, dart, dash, diddle, discard, dispose of, down-load, evade, flash, fling, flip, fob, fob off, have, heave, hose, hurl, land, launch, pitch, pour out, project, push, rain, release, scrap, send, set down, sink, sling, spill, sprinkle, strew, swing, tap, throw, throw away, throw down, throw over, toss, touch off, transfer, winnow), më ndalon, godas topin, godas (affect, astonish smb., bash, beat, biff, buffet, bump, butt, clip, clout, conk, defeat, hit, impinge, knock, pound, smite, stab, strike, whack), gllabërim (drink, gulp, mouthful, sip, swallow, swallowing up, take over), gllënjkë (craving, drachm, draft, drain, dram, draught, drink, gulp, longing, mouthful, nip, peg, pull, sip, smack, sup, swallow, swig, thirst, traction), gjatësi e rënies, bie (abate, attach, attack, bang out, bite, blow over, break down, bring, burn down, chime, come a cropper, come down, crash, crash down, crumple, cut, decline, descend, devolve, fall, fall off, fall on, finger, flake off, flop, give, go, go down, hoot, pitch, play, plunge, plunk, recede, sink, strike, subside, throw down, tumble), çoj (bring, conduce, deliver, drive, give a lift, haul, haze, lead, lead off, lead up to, lift, pass, post, raise, rear, route, send, take off, take place, waft), hedh përtokë (overthrow), pikëz (droplet, pinpoint, tear), vras (assassinate, bag, bruise, bump off, damage, despatch, dispatch, do away with, finish, finish off, get, hurt, injure, kill, Lynch, make away with oneself, murder, poniard, put the sword, puzzle, shoot, slay, stab, stone to death, waste, zap), ulje (commutation, cut, cutback, decrease, degradation, depression, derogation, descent, diminution, disparagement, down, falling, immersion, inclination, knee bend, landing, modulation, rebate, reduction, relaxation, sinking), ulem (alight, bend, bend over, burn down, decrease, deepen, descend, dip, duck, fall, go down, recede, sink, sit, sit down, take a seat), ul (abase, cast down, cheapen, couch, decline, depress, disparage, embus, furl, humble, incline, keep down, knock off, land, lower, modulate, pull down, reduce, scale down, seat, sink, strike, subdue, subside, throw, turn down, untuck), shkon pas rrymës, shembem (be demolished, cave in, fall in), rrëzoj (blow, bring down, chop down, defeat, demolish, depolarise, depose, destroy, dethrone, disenthrone, dismount, disprove, down, eradiate, fail, fell, floor, kill, knock out, overthrow, plough, plow, pull down, pull over, push down, push over, rase, raze, rebut, sink, spill, wreck), lëshim (coast, concession, discharge, droop, emission, failure, flaccidity, flagging, funk, issuance, issue, launch, launching, laxity, laxness, megrims, profligacy, release, relief, sag, tolerance), pikoj (blob, dapple, distil, distill, dribble, drip, drizzle, leak, ooze, trickle), lëshoj përdhe (ground, put down), pikël (droplet, freckle, speck, speckle), pikë (apoplexy, article, bead, blob, clause, count, Dot, full stop, globule, installation, leak, match point, period, pip, pitch, point, score, spot, touch), perëndon, përjashtoj (bar, cast out, count out, dispense, disqualify, eliminate, except, exclude, excommunicate, expel, forbid, foreclose, oust, reject, rule out, score out, send down, weed out), ndalet (discontinue, draw up, heave to, put in, run down), merr fund (determine), vritem (fall), rënie (abatement, bathos, collapse, come down, decadence, decadency, decay, decline, decrepitude, degeneracy, degradation, degression, depression, descent, dilapidation, downfall, drop off, fall, falling, flop, incidence, lapse, letdown, precipitation, prolapse, recession, regress, spill, taper, tumble, wane). (various references) | |
Arabic | ترجل (alight, dismount, get off, light), إسقاط بالمظلة, إنخفاض الحرارة, إنخفض (die down, fade, go down, recede, sag, stoop, tumble), إنسحب (draw back, drop out, move back, pull back, pull out, push off, recede, retire, retreat, separate, shag off, slope, smooth away, stand down, step down, subtract, withdraw), إنحدر (batter, bevel away, decline, descend, devolve, dip, incline, pitch, run, shelve, slant, slope), إنهار (break down, cave, collapse, come down, crack, crash, crock, crumple, fall, fall in, founder, go under, perish, plummet, ruin, run down, sink, slough, slump, tumble, tumble down), جرعة دواء (dose, potion), جرعة شراب, سقط (bring down, cave, come off, dip, dive, down, drop out, failed, fall, go by the board, settle, skip, spill, sprawl, squirt, topple, trip, tumble), سقوط (chute, descent, downfall, falling, fallout, incidence, jolt, overthrow, overturn, plunge, spilling, tumble), إبعاد (alienation, banishment, exclusion, exile, proscription, relegation, transportation), تدهور (break down, breakdown, crumble, decadence, decay, deteriorate, deterioration, go to pot, go to the bad, impairment, retrogradation, run to seed, sour, suffer, tumble), هبوط في الضغط, ترك (break, cast aside, discontinue, ditch, drop it, drop out, lay aside, leave, leave about, let go, neglect, peg, quit, rap, resign, resignation, sign away, strand, suffer, unhand), حبة بونبون, حلية مدلاة, وقع (be located, befall, come, come off, dwell, fall, ground smb., happen, land, locate, place, position, rhythm, run, set one's hand to, sign, sign up, site, strike, subscribe, supervene, take place, tumble, underwrite), قطر (country, distil, dribble, drip, land, percolate, rain, region, territory, tow, towing, trail, trickle, tug), قطرة (collyrium, eardrop, eye-wash, teardrop), نزل (bring down, camp, cantonal, climb down, come down, decline, depress, descend, get down, get off, glide, go down, hostel, inn, lodge, lodging house, low, lower, miscreant, move, nest, pull down, put down, rascal, reach down, road house, scab, scroll, send, shade, sink, slip down, step down, take down, tavern), نزل ستارة المسرح, هبط النهر, هبوط (decline, descent, down, falling, grounding, landing, letdown, slip, subsidence, trough), هبوط الأسعار (slide, slump), تدنى (fall, sink). (various references) | |
Basque | ttantta. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | помятам (abort, cast, miscarry, slink, slip), диамант (adamant, diamond, rock, sparkler), малко количество (bit, dab, dash, dollop, dreg, dribblet, jot, modicum, nibble, pennyworth, relish, scantling, smatter, soupcon, sprinkling, thimbleful, tot, trickle), занасям (haze, sideslip, skid, take), западане (declension, ebb, labefaction, lapse), бонбонче (kiss, lozenge, sweet, sweetie), бесило (gibbet), пускам (admit, bleed, cast off, course, discharge, dismiss, drive, float, fly, give off, grow, issue, let, let fall, let go, let loose, mail, play, push out, put forth, put on, put out, release, rip out, run, send forth, |