Word Finder - drops

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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.

He took the glass with the drops and again went up to the cot.

The rain was over, but drops were still falling from the trees.

She swallowed the few drops.

The bare twigs in the garden were hung with transparent drops which fell on the freshly fallen leaves.

She spotted the maroon drops on the pad of one thumb and drew his hand up to her lips.

Their gazes followed the drops of blood as they fell from her arm to the marble flooring.

This coming from the man who drops into secret meetings of Others?

Place eight to ten drops of tincture into one cup of water.

If there have been no cervical changes after a week, increase the tincture to ten drops and drink two cups a day.

If Howie drops into ten or twenty minutes of anyone's life, chance are all he sees is them picking their nose, reading a book or working.

It sounded pretty, like the poof the desert dust made when the first drops of rain fell.

Before she could capture the drops, he lifted his hand above his head, out of her reach.

Health care practitioners recommend adding five drops of black cohosh tincture to a cup of water or tea, and ingesting it once or twice a day.

When your midwife or health care provider has determined it is safe to induce your labor, place 15 drops of black cohosh tincture under your tongue every hour.

Instead, apply a few drops of rosemary essential oil to your pet's collar and bedding as a concentrated flea repellant.

Katie pulled up the sleeve of her soaked sweater and nicked her arm.  She set down the knife and squeezed out a few drops of blood, watching as they landed on the roots.

The value per acre of land, which exceeds 48 in the departments of Seine, Rhne and those fringing the north-west coast from Nord to Manche inclusive, is on the average about 29, though it drops to 16 and less in Morbihan, Landes, Basses-Pyrnes, and parts of the Alps and the central plateau.

If you are given the go ahead to use herbs to induce labor, try five to ten small drops under your tongue the first day.

If nothing occurs, try five to ten small drops the second day.

Taken as a tincture, use 10 to 15 drops in water, three times a day.

Patients consume SciatiGon orally, usually in the form of a few drops diluted in juice or water.

The active ingredient in the original serum (marketed as Massive Lash) was actually a cosmetic grade of latanoprost, one of the substances used in eye drops used for patients with glaucoma.

You can expect that an application of just a few drops of scented oil will cover all of your pulse points, hence the name One Drop Perfume.

What had started as a stream of blood had slowed to a few remaining drops.

I heard the Immortal underworld is an awful place.  What if Death decides to keep you or Rhyn drops you in Hell forever?

She squinted up through the rain drops.

He savored the wayward drops.

If barium is present, the solution of the carbonates in hydrochloric acid is evaporated and digested with strong alcohol for some time; barium chloride, which is nearly insoluble in alcohol,is thus separated, the remainder being precipitated by a few drops of hydrofluosilicic acid, and may be confirmed by the ordinary tests.

Thus the Rio San Antonio suddenly disappears near San Antonio de los Banos; the cascades of the Jatibonico del Norte disappear and reappear in a surprising manner; the Moa cascade (near Guantanamo) drops 300 ft.

Their behaviour in this respect closely resembles the balls of rapidly cooled, unannealed glass which are called Prince Rupert's drops.

Add a few drops of each essential oil to the vodka.

But, on the other hand, if a few drops of acid be placed in the vessel with the platinum, bubbles of hydrogen appear, and a current flows, zinc dissolving at the anode, and hydrogen being liberated at the cathode.

Its habit is to bury its head in its victim's skin and remain there until gorged with blood, when it drops off.

The smaller the drops, the greater the distance; hence it is that the spurious bows are generally only observed near the summits of the bows, where the drops are smaller than at any lower altitude.

It was at this time too that the many-sided Alexius invented his famous "drops," or tinctura toniconervina Bestuschefi, the recipe of which was stolen by the French brigadier Lamotte, who made his fortune by introducing it at the French court, where it was known as Elixir d'Or.

In a refinery in Nova Scotia a system has been introduced by which a travelling crane above the bag filters lifts up any head bodily with all its bags attached, and runs it to the mud and washing tanks at the end of the battery, while another similar crane drops another head, fitted with fresh bags, into the place of the one just removed.

The distillate consists of a conglomerate of drops ("drop zinc").

When cold, froth can be immediately dissipated by adding a few drops of ether.

In confinement it evinces great ferocity, opening its mouth and erecting its fangs, from which the poison is seen to flow in drops.

The pipette having been carefully dried, the process is repeated with pure alcohol or with proof spirits, and the strength of any admixture of water and spirits is determined from the corresponding number of drops, but the formula generally given is not based upon sound data.

Sir David Brewster found with one of these instruments that the number of drops of pure water was 734, while of proof spirit, sp. gr.

The very finest sediment is kept in a state of movement until it drops into the gulleys or furrows of the shelf, where it can come to rest together with the finer fragments of the remains of littoral or bank vegetation.

The atomic theory is a theory of the constitution of bodies which asserts that they are made up of atoms. The opposite theory is that of the homogeneity and continuity of bodies, and asserts, at least in the case of bodies having no apparent organization, such, for instance, as water, that as we can divide a drop of water into two parts which are each of them drops of water, so we have reason to believe that these smaller drops can be divided again, and the theory goes on to assert that there is nothing in the nature of things to hinder this process of division from being repeated over and over again, times without end.

The sight drops through a socket in a pivoted bracket which is provided From Treatise on Service Ordnance.

Thereafter the usage gradually drops.

The reverse movement of D lifts up the upper die and the collar drops simultaneously so that its upper surface is level with the face of the lower die on which the finished coin lies.

This sand has not been brought by the Hudson itself, for that river drops most of its sediment load far up stream, in its long tidal channel.

The flame rises up from the burner in a long thin column, but when an appropriate note is sounded it suddenly drops down and thickens.

Intermittent illumination, however, with frequency equal to that of the fork shows at once that the jet is really broken up into drops, one for each vibration, and that these move over in a steady procession.

The cylindrical form of jet is unstable if its length is more than 7 times its diameter, and usually the irregular disturbances it receives at the orifice go on growing, and ultimately break it up irregularly into drops which go out at different rates.