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drop
  1. A small mass of liquid just large enough to hold its own weight via surface tension, usually one that falls from a source of liquid.
  2. The space or distance below a cliff or other high position into which someone or something could fall.
  3. A fall, descent; an act of dropping.
  4. A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, sometimes associated with criminal activity; a drop-off point.
  5. An instance of dropping supplies or making a delivery, sometimes associated with delivery of supplies by parachute.
  6. (chiefly Britain) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage
  7. (definite article) alcoholic spirits in general.
  8. (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
  9. A small, round, sweet piece of hard candy, e.g. a lemon drop; a lozenge.
  10. (American football) A dropped pass.
  11. (American football) Short for drop-back or drop back.
  12. (Rugby football) A drop-kick.
  13. In a woman, the difference between bust circumference and hip circumference; in a man, the difference between chest circumference and waist circumference.
  14. (sports, usually with definite article "the") relegation from one division to a lower one
  15. (video game) Any item dropped by defeated enemies.
  16. (music) A point in a song, usually electronic-styled music such as dubstep, house, trance or trap, where there is a very noticeable and pleasing change in tempo, bass, and/or overall tone; also known as the highlight or climax.
  17. (US, banking, dated) An unsolicited credit card issue.
  18. The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
  19. That which resembles or hangs like a liquid drop: a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, etc.
  20. (architecture) A gutta.
  21. A mechanism for lowering something, such as: a trapdoor; a machine for lowering heavy weights onto a ship's deck; a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet; a curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; etc.
  22. (slang) (With definite article) A gallows; a sentence of hanging.
  23. A drop press or drop hammer.
  24. (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
  25. (nautical) The depth of a square sail; generally applied to the courses only.
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  27. Examples:
    1. “That first drop of rain begins a transformation from hunger to abundance.”
      “This salad just needs a drop of vinaigrette.”
      “Only a knave or fool would be displeased by the drop in unemployment.”
dropout
  1. Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course
  2. Someone who has opted out of conventional society.
  3. One who suddenly leaves anything, or the act of doing so.
  4. (cycling) The slot in the frame that accepts the axles of the wheels.
  5. A damaged portion of a tape or disk, causing a brief omission of audio, video, or data.
  6. Momentary loss of an electronic signal.
  7. A technique for regularizing a neural network by discarding a random subset of its units.
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  9. Examples:
    1. “Ross is a lazy university dropout living in a basement in Victoria. When not procrastinating writing reviews for Sad Hill Cemetery, he writes reviews for Sad Hill Cemetery.”
      “For many, he was the hippie college dropout who traveled to India for enlightenment.”
      “Another new administration proposal is for college completion challenge grants, designed to help lower college dropout rates.”
dropper
  1. A utensil for dispensing a single drop of liquid at a time.
  2. One who drops something, especially one who drops a specific item to cause mischief.
  3. (computing) A software component designed to install malware on a target system.
  4. (fishing) A fly that drops from the leaden above the bob or end fly.
  5. (mining) A branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main lode.
  6. A dog which suddenly drops upon the ground when it sights game.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “You would get less mercury in the dropper than you would water if you squeezed the bulb equally in both cases.”
      “Using a medicine dropper, tongs, and tweezers, how long does it take to remove 30 grains of rice from the bark of a tree?”
      “He extracted a few drops of the green contents with the dropper and squeezed the drug into his coffee-Scotch mixture.”
dropping
dropleton
  1. (physics) A quasiparticle, in the form of a quantum droplet of electrons and holes within a semiconductor, that shows some behaviour typical of a liquid
dropzone
  1. The location at which troops or supplies are dropped, usually by parachute.
droppable
  1. (graphical user interface) A component onto which the user can drag other items; a drop target.
dropitis
  1. (humorous) A notional medical condition that causes people to drop things frequently.
droppings
  1. animal excrement
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  3. Examples:
    1. “She said that large amounts of the virus were known to be excreted in the droppings of infected birds.”
      “The eggs of the spiny leaf insect are oval in shape and can be distinguished easily from the insect's droppings.”
      “The debate goes on for some time until an alternative explanation for the Yellow rain was presented, namely bee droppings.”
dropside
  1. A side that drops down.
dropperful
  1. Enough to fill a dropper.
droplet
  1. A very small drop.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The fuel is a coating of an acrylic polymer or a droplet of water that sits on the foil.”
      “The Poisson distribution provides a statistical description of the number of enzymes in the droplet.”
      “Pepc was assayed fluorometrically in real time under suboptimum conditions of pH and limiting substrate in a 17 nl droplet.”
droppersful
  1. plural of dropperful
dropperfuls
  1. plural of dropperful
dropletons
  1. plural of dropleton
droppables
  1. plural of droppable
dropsides
  1. plural of dropside
dropzones
  1. plural of dropzone
droplets
  1. plural of droplet
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  3. Examples:
    1. “But the fine water droplets it creates may reach smaller airways in the lower chest.”
      “It is caused by light shining through thin altocumulus, which causes the light to bend as it passes through the water droplets within the cloud.”
      “These variables allow to control the diameter of the disperse phase droplets.”
dropouts
  1. plural of dropout
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Nonetheless, findings of this study are limited to potential school dropouts enrolled in alternative schools.”
      “Filled with scratches, dirt, splicing errors, and dropouts, this DVD presentation is a near-VHS version of mixed media malfunctions.”
      “But once they leave school, the outlook for many school dropouts remains grim.”
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