'Drop' definitions:
Definition of 'drop'
From: WordNet
noun
A shape that is spherical and small; "he studied the shapes of low-viscosity drops"; "beads of sweat on his forehead" [syn: drop, bead, pearl]
noun
A small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid); "he had a drop too much to drink"; "a drop of each sample was analyzed"; "there is not a drop of pity in that man"; "years afterward, they would pay the blood-money, driblet by driblet"--Kipling [syn: drop, drib, driblet]
noun
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"; "a dip in prices"; "when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall" [syn: drop, dip, fall, free fall]
noun
A steep high face of rock; "he stood on a high cliff overlooking the town"; "a steep drop" [syn: cliff, drop, drop-off]
noun
A predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property)
noun
A free and rapid descent by the force of gravity; "it was a miracle that he survived the drop from that height" [syn: drop, fall]
noun
A curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery [syn: drop curtain, drop cloth, drop]
noun
A central depository where things can be left or picked up
noun
The act of dropping something; "they expected the drop would be successful"
verb
Let fall to the ground; "Don't drop the dishes"
verb
To fall vertically; "the bombs are dropping on enemy targets"
verb
Go down in value; "Stock prices dropped"
verb
verb
Terminate an association with; "drop him from the Republican ticket"
verb
Utter with seeming casualness; "drop a hint"; drop names"
verb
Stop pursuing or acting; "drop a lawsuit"; "knock it off!" [syn: drop, knock off]
verb
Leave or unload; "unload the cargo"; "drop off the passengers at the hotel" [syn: drop, drop off, set down, put down, unload, discharge]
verb
Cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow; "strike down a tree"; "Lightning struck down the hikers" [syn: fell, drop, strike down, cut down]
verb
Lose (a game); "The Giants dropped 11 of their first 13"
verb
verb
verb
Hang freely; "the ornaments dangled from the tree"; "The light dropped from the ceiling" [syn: dangle, swing, drop]
verb
Stop associating with; "They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock" [syn: dismiss, send packing, send away, drop]
verb
verb
Get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes" [syn: shed, cast, cast off, shake off, throw, throw off, throw away, drop]
verb
Take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth; "She dropped acid when she was a teenager"
verb
Omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing; " New Englanders drop their post-vocalic r's"
verb
Leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten" [syn: neglect, pretermit, omit, drop, miss, leave out, overlook, overleap] [ant: attend to, take to heart]
verb
Change from one level to another; "She dropped into army jargon"
verb
Fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death; "shop til you drop"
verb
Grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match" [syn: devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate] [ant: convalesce, recover, recuperate]
verb
Give birth; used for animals; "The cow dropped her calf this morning"
Definition of 'Drop'
From: GCIDE
- Drop \Drop\ (dr[o^]p), n. [OE. drope, AS. dropa; akin to OS. dropo, D. drop, OHG. tropo, G. tropfen, Icel. dropi, Sw. droppe; and Fr. AS. dre['o]pan to drip, drop; akin to OS. driopan, D. druipen, OHG. triofan, G. triefen, Icel. drj[=u]pa. Cf. Drip, Droop.]
- 1. The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a fluid; a small quantity; as, a drop of water. [1913 Webster]
- With minute drops from off the eaves. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart. -- Shak. [1913 Webster]
- That drop of peace divine. --Keble. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which resembles, or that which hangs like, a liquid drop; as a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Arch.) (a) Same as Gutta. (b) Any small pendent ornament. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Whatever is arranged to drop, hang, or fall from an elevated position; also, a contrivance for lowering something; as: (a) A door or platform opening downward; a trap door; that part of the gallows on which a culprit stands when he is to be hanged; hence, the gallows itself. (b) A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship's deck. (c) A contrivance for temporarily lowering a gas jet. (d) A curtain which drops or falls in front of the stage of a theater, etc. (e) A drop press or drop hammer. (f) (Mach.) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger. [1913 Webster]
- 5. pl. Any medicine the dose of which is measured by drops; as, lavender drops. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Naut.) The depth of a square sail; -- generally applied to the courses only. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. [1913 Webster]
- 7. Act of dropping; sudden fall or descent. [1913 Webster]
- Ague drop, Black drop. See under Ague, Black.
- Drop by drop, in small successive quantities; in repeated portions. "Made to taste drop by drop more than the bitterness of death." --Burke.
- Drop curtain. See Drop, n., 4. (d) .
- Drop forging. (Mech.) (a) A forging made in dies by a drop hammer. (b) The process of making drop forgings.
- Drop hammer (Mech.), a hammer for forging, striking up metal, etc., the weight being raised by a strap or similar device, and then released to drop on the metal resting on an anvil or die.
- Drop kick (Football), a kick given to the ball as it rebounds after having been dropped from the hands.
- Drop lake, a pigment obtained from Brazil wood. --Mollett.
- Drop letter, a letter to be delivered from the same office where posted.
- Drop press (Mech.), a drop hammer; sometimes, a dead-stroke hammer; -- also called drop.
- Drop scene, a drop curtain on which a scene is painted. See Drop, n., 4. (d) .
- Drop seed. (Bot.) See the List under Glass.
- Drop serene. (Med.) See Amaurosis. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Drop'
From: GCIDE
- Drop \Drop\, v. i.
- 1. To fall in drops. [1913 Webster]
- The kindly dew drops from the higher tree, And wets the little plants that lowly dwell. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To fall, in general, literally or figuratively; as, ripe fruit drops from a tree; wise words drop from the lips. [1913 Webster]
- Mutilations of which the meaning has dropped out of memory. --H. Spencer. [1913 Webster]
- When the sound of dropping nuts is heard. --Bryant. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops. [1913 Webster]
- The heavens . . . dropped at the presence of God. --Ps. lxviii. 8. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To fall dead, or to fall in death; as, dropping like flies. [1913 Webster]
- Nothing, says Seneca, so soon reconciles us to the thoughts of our own death, as the prospect of one friend after another dropping round us. --Digby. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as, the affair dropped. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To come unexpectedly; -- with in or into; as, my old friend dropped in a moment. --Steele. [1913 Webster]
- Takes care to drop in when he thinks you are just seated. --Spectator. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To fall or be depressed; to lower; as, the point of the spear dropped a little. [1913 Webster]
- 8. To fall short of a mark. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- Often it drops or overshoots by the disproportion of distance. --Collier. [1913 Webster]
- 9. To be deep in extent; to descend perpendicularly; as, her main topsail drops seventeen yards. [1913 Webster]
- To drop astern (Naut.), to go astern of another vessel; to be left behind; to slacken the speed of a vessel so as to fall behind and to let another pass a head.
- To drop down (Naut.), to sail, row, or move down a river, or toward the sea.
- To drop off, to fall asleep gently; also, to die. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Drop'
From: GCIDE
- Drop \Drop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Droppedor Dropt; p. pr. & vb. n. Dropping.] [OE. droppen, AS. dropan, v. i. See Drop, n.]
- 1. To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules; to distill. "The trees drop balsam." --Creech. [1913 Webster]
- The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever. --Sterne. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To cause to fall in one portion, or by one motion, like a drop; to let fall; as, to drop a line in fishing; to drop a courtesy. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To let go; to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to omit. [1913 Webster]
- They suddenly drop't the pursuit. --S. Sharp. [1913 Webster]
- That astonishing ease with which fine ladies drop you and pick you up again. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
- The connection had been dropped many years. -- Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- Dropping the too rough H in Hell and Heaven. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To bestow or communicate by a suggestion; to let fall in an indirect, cautious, or gentle manner; as, to drop hint, a word of counsel, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To send, as a letter; as, please drop me a line, a letter, word. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To give birth to; as, to drop a lamb. [1913 Webster]
- 8. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop. [1913 Webster]
- Show to the sun their waved coats dropped with gold. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- To drop a vessel (Naut.), to leave it astern in a race or a chase; to outsail it. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'drop'
From: GCIDE
- Gutta \Gut"ta\, n.; pl. Guttae. [L.]
- 1. A drop. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Arch.) One of a series of ornaments, in the form of a frustum of a cone, attached to the lower part of the triglyphs, and also to the lower faces of the mutules, in the Doric order; -- called also campana, and drop. [1913 Webster]
- Gutta serena [L., lit. serene or clear drop] (Med.), amaurosis.
- Gutt[ae] band (Arch.), the listel or band from which the gutt[ae] hang. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'drop'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandon,
- abate,
- abdicate,
- abeyance,
- abjure,
- ablate,
- acknowledge defeat,
- act drop,
- advantage,
- asbestos,
- asbestos board,
- ascend,
- ax,
- backdrop,
- backslide,
- balm,
- balsam,
- bank,
- bate,
- batten,
- be bereaved of,
- be confined,
- be eaten away,
- bead,
- bear,
- bear a child,
- bear young,
- belly buster,
- belly flop,
- belly whopper,
- bit,
- black out,
- block,
- blow,
- blow down,
- blow over,
- blow to pieces,
- blow up,
- boot out,
- border,
- bounce,
- bowl down,
- bowl over,
- brain,
- break,
- break down,
- break the habit,
- bring down,
- bulge,
- bulldog,
- burn out,
- burn to death,
- caesura,
- call off,
- call on,
- calve,
- can,
- cannonball,
- cant,
- careen,
- cascade,
- cash in,
- cast,
- cast down,
- cast off,
- catabasis,
- cataract,
- cave in,
- cease,
- cease-fire,
- cede,
- charge,
- chop down,
- chuck,
- chute,
- climb,
- cloth,
- cock,
- coign of vantage,
- collapse,
- come apart,
- come by,
- come down,
- come off,
- come unstuck,
- comedown,
- condensation,
- condense,
- conk out,
- consume,
- consume away,
- corrode,
- coulisse,
- counterweight,
- crack up,
- crash,
- crash dive,
- cross,
- crumb,
- crumble,
- cry quits,
- curtain,
- curtain board,
- cut down,
- cut out,
- cut to pieces,
- cyclorama,
- dab,
- dash,
- dash down,
- day off,
- deal a deathblow,
- death chair,
- death chamber,
- debacle,
- debasement,
- decadence,
- decadency,
- decamp,
- decease,
- deceleration,
- deck,
- declension,
- declination,
- decline,
- decline and fall,
- declivity,
- decor,
- decrease,
- decrescendo,
- deepness,
- default,
- defluxion,
- deformation,
- degeneracy,
- degenerateness,
- degeneration,
- degradation,
- deliquesce,
- demise,
- demotion,
- depart,
- deposit,
- depravation,
- depravedness,
- depreciation,
- derogation,
- descend,
- descending,
- descension,
- descent,
- desert,
- desist,
- desist from,
- deterioration,
- detonate,
- devolution,
- dewdrop,
- die,
- die away,
- diminish,
- diminuendo,
- dip,
- dip down,
- discard,
- discharge,
- discontinue,
- disgorge,
- disintegrate,
- dismiss,
- dispense with,
- dispose of,
- distill,
- distillation,
- disuse,
- ditch,
- dive,
- do without,
- doff,
- dot,
- douse,
- down,
- downbend,
- downcome,
- downcurve,
- downfall,
- downflow,
- downgate,
- downgrade,
- downhill,
- downpour,
- downrush,
- downslide,
- downswing,
- downtrend,
- downturn,
- downward mobility,
- downward trend,
- draft,
- dram,
- drench,
- dribble,
- driblet,
- drink,
- drip,
- dripping,
- drippings,
- dripple,
- droop,
- drop,
- drop curtain,
- drop down,
- drop in on,
- drop off,
- drop out,
- droplet,
- dropping,
- drops,
- drug,
- dump,
- dwindle,
- dwindling,
- dying,
- ebb,
- edge,
- effeteness,
- eject,
- electric chair,
- electuary,
- eliminate,
- elixir,
- end,
- erode,
- ethical drug,
- exclude,
- expire,
- fade,
- fading,
- fail,
- failing,
- failure,
- failure of nerve,
- faint,
- fall,
- fall away,
- fall down,
- fall off,
- fall senseless,
- falling,
- falling-off,
- falloff,
- farrow,
- fatigue,
- fawn,
- fell,
- fetch down,
- filter,
- fire,
- fire curtain,
- fire off,
- fizzle out,
- flag,
- flat,
- fleck,
- flipper,
- floor,
- flying start,
- flyspeck,
- foal,
- forfeit,
- forgo,
- forsake,
- forswear,
- frag,
- gainer,
- gallows,
- gallows-tree,
- gargle,
- gas chamber,
- gasp,
- generic name,
- get along without,
- get rid of,
- get tired,
- gibbet,
- give away,
- give birth,
- give out,
- give over,
- give the quietus,
- give up,
- give way,
- globule,
- gnat,
- go astray from,
- go away,
- go down,
- go downhill,
- go off,
- go soft,
- go to pieces,
- go uphill,
- gobbet,
- grade,
- grain,
- gravitate,
- gravitation,
- gray out,
- ground,
- grow weary,
- guillotine,
- gun,
- gun down,
- gun for,
- gurgle,
- guzzle,
- halter,
- hand over,
- hang,
- hanging,
- have,
- have a baby,
- have done with,
- have young,
- head,
- head start,
- header,
- hemp,
- hempen collar,
- herbs,
- hesitation,
- hew down,
- hit,
- hit the skids,
- holiday,
- hot seat,
- incinerate,
- inclination,
- incline,
- incur loss,
- inhalant,
- inside track,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interruption,
- interval,
- involution,
- iota,
- jackknife,
- jade,
- jigger,
- jilt,
- jolt,
- jot,
- jugulate,
- jump,
- keel,
- keel over,
- kick,
- kiss good-bye,
- kitten,
- knock down,
- labor,
- lamb,
- languish,
- lapidate,
- lapse,
- lay,
- lay down,
- lay level,
- lay low,
- lay out,
- layoff,
- leach,
- leaching,
- lead,
- leak,
- leak out,
- leakage,
- leaking,
- lean,
- leave,
- leave off,
- leave out,
- lessen,
- let drop,
- let fly,
- let go,
- let off,
- let out,
- let slip,
- let up,
- lethal chamber,
- letter box,
- letter drop,
- letup,
- level,
- libation,
- lie in,
- lincture,
- linctus,
- list,
- litter,
- lixiviate,
- lixiviation,
- load,
- lose,
- lose altitude,
- lose out,
- loss of tone,
- lota,
- lower,
- lull,
- maiden,
- mailbag,
- mailbox,
- mailing machine,
- make a sacrifice,
- materia medica,
- medicament,
- medication,
- medicinal,
- medicinal herbs,
- medicine,
- melt away,
- microbe,
- microorganism,
- midge,
- minim,
- minutia,
- minutiae,
- mislay,
- misplace,
- miss,
- mite,
- mixture,
- molecule,
- mote,
- mow down,
- nip,
- nol-pros,
- nonprescription drug,
- noose,
- nose dive,
- nose-dive,
- not pursue with,
- odds,
- officinal,
- omit,
- ounce,
- oust,
- pant,
- parachute,
- parachute jump,
- part with,
- particle,
- pass,
- pass away,
- pass out,
- patent medicine,
- pause,
- pearl,
- peg,
- peg out,
- pelt,
- pepper,
- percolate,
- percolation,
- peter out,
- pharmacon,
- physic,
- pick off,
- pillar box,
- pinch,
- pine,
- pinhead,
- pinpoint,
- pistol,
- pitch,
- play out,
- plop,
- plug,
- plummet,
- plummeting,
- plump,
- plunge,
- plunk,
- point,
- poleax,
- poop out,
- pop off,
- postbag,
- postbox,
- pot,
- potation,
- potion,
- potshoot,
- potshot,
- pounce,
- pounce on,
- pounce upon,
- pour down,
- powder,
- power dive,
- precipitate,
- preparation,
- prescription drug,
- prime,
- proprietary,
- proprietary medicine,
- proprietary name,
- prostrate,
- puff,
- puff and blow,
- pull,
- pull down,
- pup,
- put behind one,
- put off,
- quit,
- quitclaim,
- rag,
- rain,
- raindrop,
- rake,
- rapids,
- rase,
- raze,
- recant,
- recess,
- regression,
- reject,
- relapse,
- release,
- relinquish,
- remission,
- remove,
- render up,
- renounce,
- repudiate,
- resign,
- respite,
- rest,
- retract,
- retreat,
- retrocession,
- retrogradation,
- retrogression,
- riddle,
- rise,
- rope,
- round,
- round of drinks,
- run down,
- run low,
- run out,
- running dive,
- running start,
- rusticate,
- sack,
- sacrifice,
- sag,
- scaffold,
- scene,
- scenery,
- scrap,
- screen,
- scrub,
- seep,
- seepage,
- seeping,
- send headlong,
- settle,
- shake,
- shed,
- shelve,
- shoot,
- shoot at,
- shoot down,
- shoot to death,
- shot,
- shotgun,
- shred,
- shrink,
- side scene,
- sidle,
- silence,
- simples,
- sink,
- sip,
- skid,
- skin-dive,
- sky dive,
- sky-dive,
- slack off,
- slacken,
- slant,
- slide,
- slip,
- slip out of,
- slippage,
- slope,
- slowdown,
- slug,
- slump,
- smidgen,
- smidgin,
- smitch,
- snifter,
- snip,
- snipe,
- snippet,
- snort,
- something extra,
- something in reserve,
- sound,
- spare,
- spawn,
- speck,
- spot,
- spread-eagle,
- spurtle,
- stab to death,
- stage screw,
- stake,
- stand-down,
- start,
- stationary dive,
- stay,
- step out of,
- stone,
- stone to death,
- stoop,
- stop,
- strike,
- strike dead,
- subside,
- subsidence,
- succumb,
- suck,
- suffer loss,
- sup,
- supinate,
- surrender,
- suspension,
- swag,
- swan dive,
- sway,
- swear off,
- sweat,
- sweating,
- swig,
- swill,
- swoon,
- swoop,
- swoop down,
- syrup,
- tab,
- tableau,
- tail off,
- take a header,
- take a potshot,
- take down,
- take off,
- taper off,
- taste,
- tear,
- teardrop,
- teaser,
- tend,
- tend to go,
- terminate,
- the chair,
- theraputant,
- throw,
- throw down,
- throw off,
- throw over,
- throw up,
- tilt,
- tip,
- tire,
- tisane,
- tittle,
- topple,
- tormentor,
- torpedo,
- tot,
- transformation,
- transformation scene,
- travail,
- tree,
- trend downward,
- trickle,
- tricklet,
- trill,
- trip,
- truce,
- tumble,
- turn off,
- undergo privation,
- undo,
- unwrap,
- upper hand,
- uprise,
- vacate,
- vacation,
- vanishing point,
- vantage,
- vantage ground,
- vantage point,
- vaporize,
- vegetable remedies,
- visit,
- waive,
- wander from,
- wane,
- waste,
- waste away,
- waterfall,
- weaken,
- wear,
- wear away,
- wear thin,
- weary,
- weep,
- wet,
- whack down,
- wheeze,
- whelp,
- whip hand,
- wilt,
- wing,
- wingcut,
- withdraw from,
- woodcut,
- yean,
- yield
Words containing 'Drop'
- Drop by drop,
- Dropped,
- Dropping,
- Droppingly,
- To drop down,
- To drop off,
- To drop through,
- drop by,
- drop down,
- drop in,
- drop it,
- drop off,
- drop out,
- droppings,
- Ague drop,
- Beech drops,
- Black drop,
- Drop curtain,
- Drop forging,
- Drop hammer,
- Drop kick,
- Drop lake,
- Drop letter,
- Drop press,
- Drop rudder,
- Drop scene,
- Drop seed,
- Drop serene,
- Dropping bottle,
- Dropping fire,
- Dropping tube,
- Hand drop,
- Jesuits' drops,
- Life drop,
- Rupert's drop,
- To drop a vessel,
- To drop astern,
- To drop the curtain,
- Toe drop,
- Wrist drop,
- coral drops,
- cough drop,
- dead drop,
- drop a line,
- drop anchor,
- drop arch,
- drop away,
- drop back,
- drop behind,
- drop biscuit,
- drop by the wayside,
- drop cloth,
- drop dead,
- drop earring,
- drop forge,
- drop in the bucket,
- drop keel,
- drop line,
- drop of a sail,
- drop open,
- drop scone,
- drop shot,
- drop the ball,
- drop the subject,
- drop zone,
- drop-off,
- dropped egg,
- dropping zone,
- knockout drops,
- lemon drop,
- let drop,
- nose drops,
- pigeon droppings,
- potential drop,
- to drop the ball,
- voltage drop,
- Friction drop hammer,
- air-drop,
- drop like flies,
- drop one's serve,
- drop-dead,
- drop-down menu,
- drop-kick,
- drop-leaf,
- drop-off charge,
- drop-seed,
- eye-drop,
- knock-out drops,
- name-dropping,
- drop-leaf table