verb

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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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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.

noun

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Something dropped.

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(usually in the plural) A piece of animal excrement; dung.

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a rabbit dropping

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The act of something that drops or falls.

Examples of dropping in a Sentence

He closed his eyes, dropping his head back.

Tell me you're not dropping out of school!

Elisabeth sat with Jackson's head in her lap, her tears dropping on his face.

Dropping the papers on her computer desk, she then stripped off her coat and passed by the guest…Toby's room.

She maneuvered him into the house, almost dropping him in front of the fire.

The woman he assumed was Hannah stared at him, her mouth dropping open.

Deidre fled to it, needing something to bolster the defenses that were dropping too fast.

Friends and strangers alike acted out their stilted scenes before dropping onto the page as words again.

And my affairs are in such a bad way that my position is now a terrible one, continued Anna Mikhaylovna, sadly, dropping her voice.

His grandfather, who was his godfather, trembling and afraid of dropping him, carried the infant round the battered tin font and handed him over to the godmother, Princess Mary.

Hadn't she been supportive of Brandon when he made his foolish move of dropping out of college?

Startled, he jumped to his feet, dropping the umbrella.

They are dropping quickly.

Dropping it now would be like losing another friend.

Dropping off this little package was accomplished with no regret as she wouldn't cease screaming her head off keeping my nerves on edge the entire time we were together.

I'm sure they're just dropping him crumbs.

He handled weapons as if they were extensions of his body, never dropping them or misplacing a strike.

She growled but settled, her head dropping back against his shoulder.

The long ride back to Ouray reminded Dean of another trip after dropping Cynthia at the airport.

So a thousandfold increase in capacity at one-fortieth the cost is like the $50,000 Mercedes dropping to a buck and a quarter.

Tucking his legs under him and dropping his head he sat down on the cold ground by the wheel of the cart and remained motionless a long while sunk in thought.

I have plans too, you know - and they don't include dropping out three months short of graduation.

He grabbed the child under his arm and after dropping the now limp boy on the other side, climbed back over.

It was dark, cold, and the shots hit the man with lopsided shoulders, dropping him dead to the ground.

She rubbed the lumpy scar on her arm, her attention caught by the sight of a jaguar dropping from a tree branch to the edge of the park and the forest a short distance away.

She propped it on the railing and tried to manipulate the box, wondering if dropping it messed up something.

Owing, however, to the close proximity of stigma and anthers, very slight irregularity in the movements of the visiting insect will cause self-pollination, which may also occur by the dropping of pollen from the anthers of the larger stamens on to the stigma.

The reference to "tail" is either to the expression "turn tail" in flight, or to the habit of animals dropping the tail between the legs when frightened; in heraldry, a lion in this position is a "lion coward."

It was hoped that, in the circumstances, Dr Lukacs, a financier of experience, might be able to come to terms with Mr de Justh, on the basis of dropping the bank question for the time, or, failing that, to patch together out of the rival parties some sort of a working majority.

In a mine with two shafts a ventilating current may result from other conditions creating a difference in the temperature of the air in either shaft - for example, the cooling effect of dropping water or the heating effect of steam pipes.

Titanium trioxide, T103, is obtained as a yellow precipitate by dropping the chloride into alcohol, adding hydrogen peroxide, and finally ammonium carbonate or potash.

In 1881 a French force crossed the Algerian frontier under pretext of chastising the independent Khmir or Kroumir tribes on the north-east of the regency, and, quickly dropping the mask, advanced on the capital and compelled the Bey to accept the French protectorate.

We then extract one ingot after another at successively lower temperatures and chill each ingot by dropping it into water or by some other method of very rapid cooling.

The decomposition of the carbide by water may be brought about either by bringing the water slowly into contact with an excess of carbide, or by dropping the carbide into an excess of water, and these two main operations again may be varied by innumerable ingenious devices by which the rapidity of the contact may be modified or even eventually stopped.

There, in the Tze line, towards the end of the 8th century B.C., we find a Kung Kia, whose posterity, according to the rules for the dropping of surnames, became the Kung clan.

In dropping it dislodges the detent of the reducing slide, and the slide springs forward and reduces the flow of the sugar.

Employing these tactics enabled each wave of two-ship pairs to engage tanks selectively and avoid dropping ordnance on less significant targets.

Dropping the Fork offers a fantasy character generator that is a read and roll style.

The motion of the plate may be simply produced by dropping it between two vertical grooves, the tuning-forks being properly fixed to a frame above.

At the very time when Lithuania was thus becoming a compact, united, powerful state, Poland seemed literally to be dropping to pieces.

Rough seas, &c., cause them to seek safety in dropping into deeper water.

The seamen, instead of dropping down on the battery, had to go back to it 400 yd.

Another party of marines dropping straight to the mole had established a strong point by No.

He was interested in many things, and threw himself with ardour into whatever he took up; he contrived schemes quickly, and pushed them on with an energy which usually made them succeed when no long time was needed, for, if a project was delayed, there was a risk of his tiring of it and dropping it.

From this year to 1889 it fluctuated considerably, reaching 157,534 acres in 1880 and dropping to 89,225 acres in 1884.

He ranges freely about the world, touching the laughable sides of things with kindly laughter, and every now and then dropping the risibile and taking to the rationale.

The usual method employed for the preparation of the gas consists in dropping bromine on to a mixture of amorphous phosphorus and water, when a violent reaction takes place and the gas is rapidly liberated.

The pope ignored the decisions of the assembly; so, dropping the regale, the king demanded that, to obviate further conflict, the assembly should define the limits of the authority due respectively to the king, the Church and the pope.

The Watchers are in town, and they may be dropping by to visit.

Two felt the stinging blow at the back of his head and wobbled, dropping to his knees.

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