drop
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
broadcasting
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entertainment
food
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government
hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
mathematics
media
medicine
military
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physiology
politics
rugby
sciences
sports
television
video-games
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *dropōn
Old English dropian
Middle English droppen
English drop
From Middle English droppen, dropen (“to fall in drops, drip or trickle down; to scatter, sprinkle; to be covered with a liquid; to give off moisture; of an object: to drop, fall; of a living being: to fall to the ground”) [and other forms], from Old English droppian, dropian (“to drop”), from Proto-West Germanic *dropōn, from Proto-Germanic *drupōną (“to fall in drops, drip”), ultimately from *dreupaną (“to hang, droop; drop, drip”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrebʰ- (“to drip, drop”).
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian drippe (“to drip”), Dutch druipen (“to drip”), German triefen (“to drip”), Yiddish טריפֿן (trifn, “to drip”), Icelandic drjúpa (“to drip”), Norwegian Nynorsk drjupa, drypa, drype (“to drip”), Swedish drypa (“to drip”).
Inflected forms:
form: drops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dropping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dropped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dropped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dropt
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: dropt
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: drop
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: drop
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: dropped
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: dropt
pos: verb
tags: archaic
first-person
past
singular
form: drop
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: droppest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: dropped
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: droppedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: dropt
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: drops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: droppeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: dropped
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: dropt
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
singular
third-person
form: drop
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: dropped
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: dropt
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
plural
form: drop
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: dropped
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: dropt
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
subjunctive
form: drop
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: dropping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dropped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dropt
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: drap
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Scotland
Senses:
gloss: Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The kindlye dewe drops from the higher tree, / And wets the little plants that lowly dwell.
gloss: To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid.
pos: verb
tags: also
figuratively
intransitive
examples: A single shot was fired and the bird dropped from the sky.
gloss: To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
also
figuratively
intransitive
examples: When you defeat this boss, there's a chance a power-up will drop.
This item can sometimes drop from chests.
gloss: To fall or sink quickly or suddenly to the ground.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Drop and give me thirty push-ups, private!
If your clothes are on fire, stop, drop, and roll.
gloss: To collapse in exhaustion or injury; also, to fall dead, or to fall in death.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Nothing, ſays Seneca, is ſo melancholy a circumſtance in human life, or ſo ſoon reconciles us to the thought of our own death, as the reflection and prospect of one friend after another dropping round us!
gloss: To fall into a particular condition or state.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To come to an end (by not being kept up); to lapse, to stop.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: When he again found privacy consistent, however—and it happened to be long in coming—he took up their conversation very much where it had dropped.
gloss: To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
The equipment shows how much the glacier has moved and the amount it dropped in height over the summer.
This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.
gloss: To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: My synthesizer makes the notes sound funny when they drop below C2.
The song, 180 beats per minute, drops to 150 BPM near the end.
gloss: To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Billy’s voice dropped suddenly when he turned 12.
The 18-year-old [Justin] Bieber can’t quite pull off the “adult” thing just yet: His voice may have dropped a bit since the days of “Baby,” but it still mostly registers as “angelic,” and veers toward a pubescent whine at times.
gloss: To fall behind or to the rear of a group of people, etc., as a result of not keeping up with those at the front.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: Usually followed by by, in, or into: of a person: to visit someone or somewhere informally or without a prior appointment.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Do drop by soon and I’ll lend you that book.
We’ll drop in on her tomorrow.
He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.
gloss: Of a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
examples: The album Hip-Hop Xmas dropped in time for the holidays.
gloss: To drop out of the betting.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: But more important, if I dropped, Marty would have won the hand automatically.
gloss: Of the testicles: to hang further away from the body and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
gloss: To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: The heavens […] dropped at the presence of God.
gloss: To drip (a liquid) in drops or small amounts.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.
persons, dropping sweat-drops or blood-drops
gloss: To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).
pos: verb
tags: also
ergative
figuratively
transitive
examples: Don’t drop that plate!    The police ordered the men to drop their weapons.
But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from the aircraft they should have been dropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits of debris, and the line to a huge crater.
gloss: To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).
pos: verb
tags: Internet
also
ergative
figuratively
transitive
examples: The monsters drop health pickups when killed.
When opened, these chests have a chance to drop powerful items.
gloss: To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The stare seemed to abash Poirot. He dropped his eyes and began fiddling with the papers in front of him.
gloss: To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Drop a basket of fries.
gloss: To reduce; to make smaller.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Here is a simple example: suppose you are in the process of writing a 15-page proposal and at a certain point you decide that, in order to fit all your material, you want to drop the font size from 12 to 11.
gloss: Of an animal (usually a sheep): to give birth to (young); of a bird: to lay (an egg).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to drop a lamb
gloss: To mention (something) casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The lecturer would drop hints whenever the students struggled.
name drop
By 1996, ‘jungle’ and ‘drum and bass’ were the words to drop.
gloss: To let (a letter, etc.) fall into a postbox; hence, to send (a letter, email, or other message) in an offhand manner.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: As she had a free moment, she dropped her a text.
Drop me a note when you get to the city.
gloss: To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot, etc.; to bring down, to shoot down; to kill.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Make any sudden movements and I will drop you!
That gang rules the streets, dropping opponents with guns, bombs and other weapons.
1846, ed. by G. W. Nickisson, “Elephant-Shooting in Ceylon”, in Fraser's Magazine, vol. XXXIII, no. CXCVII
page 562: ...if the first shot does not drop him, and he rushes on, the second will be a very hurried and most likely ineffectual one...
page 568 ...with a single shot he dropped him like a master of the art.
As with all other animals, a shot behind the shoulder is the most likely to drop the beast on the spot […]
He dropped the beast with a bullet in its heart.
The piano player's out, the music stopped / His boy had beef, and he got dropped...
With a quick clench of the fist on Joey's throat, Bodie dropped him. The man crumpled to the ground […]
gloss: To set down (someone or something) from a vehicle; to stop and deliver or deposit (someone or something); to drop off.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Could you drop me at the airport on your way to work tomorrow?
I’ll be dropping the parcel at your place later.
gloss: To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cease concerning oneself over (someone or something); to have nothing more to do with (a discussion, subject, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I’m tired of this subject. Will you just drop it?
They suddenly dropt the pursuit.
The connection had been dropped many years.
that astonishing ease with which fine ladies drop you and pick you up again
gloss: To dispose or get rid of (something); to lose, to remove.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I dropped ten pounds and an obnoxious fiancée.
gloss: To cease to include (something), as if on a list; to dismiss, to eject, to expel.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I’ve been dropped from the football team.
If Carly Telford’s replacement of Karen Bardsley, because of a hamstring injury, was enforced, the switch to 4-4-1-1 was not. This new-look configuration saw Rachel Daly deployed in front of Lucy Bronze down the right, Toni Duggan and Fran Kirby dropped, Beth Mead introduced on the left and Nikita Parris moved up front.
gloss: To cancel or cease to participate in (a scheduled course, event, or project).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I had to drop calculus because it was taking up too much of my time.
The specialists she had taken her daughter to see attributed her collection of symptoms to the lingering effect of the many concussions she suffered playing sports. She had at least one concussion every year since she was in the fourth grade. Because of her frequent head injuries, her parents made her drop all her sports.
gloss: To lose, spend, or otherwise part with (money).
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: My friends went to the football game, but I skipped, as I had just dropped a lot of money on a new bike wheel.
The question was: Who put the most in the collection box? The wealthy guy, who dropped a “C” note, or the tattered old dame who parted with her last tarnished penny.
I forked over the $19.25. I was in no position to be dropping twenties like gumdrops but I deserved something good from this crappy morning.
gloss: To pass or use (counterfeit cheques, money, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
gloss: To impart (something).
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: I drop knowledge wherever I go.
gloss: Especially in drop acid: to swallow (a drug, particularly LSD).
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
gloss: To release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
examples: They dropped the album Hip-Hop Xmas in time for the holidays.
That hacker has been threatening to drop my docs [i.e. publish my personal information].
gloss: To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Cockneys drop their aitches.
gloss: To play (a portion of music) in the manner of a disc jockey.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I love it when he drops his funky beats.
That guy can drop the bass like a monster.
gloss: To perform (rap music).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Yo, I drop rhymes like nobody’s business.
gloss: To (unexpectedly) lose (a competition, game, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Of a fielder: to fail to dismiss (a batsman) by accidentally dropping a batted ball that had initially been caught.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Warne dropped Tendulkar on 99. Tendulkar went on to get a century next ball.
gloss: To score (a goal) by means of a drop kick.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cover (something) with or as if with drops, especially of a different colour; to bedrop, to variegate.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: their waved coats dropped with gold
gloss: To enter a more basic interface.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Next, you drop to a shell.
gloss: To present (the user) with a more basic interface.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The next step drops the user to a recovery shell.
gloss: To make someone, or be made to do push-ups or some other form of exercise on the ground as punishment.
pos: verb
tags: Singapore
US
ergative
slang
examples: Drop and give me 20, now!
Derived words: misdrop
chop and drop
could hear a pin drop
don't drop the soap
drag and drop
drag-and-drop
drag-drop
drop a bollock
drop a bomb
drop a bombshell
drop a brick
drop a chalupa
drop a clanger
drop-add form
drop a deuce
drop a dime
drop a dime on someone
drop a hint
drop a load
drop a log
drop anchor
drop a nickel
drop astern
drop away
drop-back
drop back
drop-ball
drop bear
drop behind
drop by
drop call
drop-call
drop cap
drop cloth
dropcloth
drop curtain
drop dead
drop-dead
drop dimes
drop-down
drop down
dropfile
drop goal
drophead
drophole
drop-in
drop in
drop into
dropitis
drop kerb
drop kick
drop-kick
drop-kicker
dropleaf
drop-leaf
drop-leaf table
droplifting
drop like a bad habit
drop like a hot brick
drop like a hot potato
drop like a hot skillet
drop like flies
dropoff
drop off
drop-off
drop off the hooks
drop off the radar
drop one's beads
drop one's bundle
drop one's guard
drop one's guts
drop out
drop-out
dropout
droppable
dropped ceiling
dropped egg
dropped goal
dropped head syndrome
dropped scone
dropper
dropping fire
droppingly
dropping point
droppings
drop round
drop scene
drop science
drop scone
drop ship
drop shot
drop someone a line
drop someone in it
drop the ball
drop the bomb
drop the F-bomb
drop the f-bomb
drop the gloves
drop the hammer
drop the hand
drop the handkerchief
drop the H-bomb
drop the kiddies off at the pool
drop the kids off at the pool
drop the mic
drop the pilot
drop the soap
drop the subject
drop the topic
drop the writ
drop-tongue
drop trou
drop trow
jar-dropping
jaw-dropping
let the matter drop
make someone's jaw drop
name-drop
name-dropping
one can hear a pin drop
one could hear a pin drop
overdrop
pin-dropping
shadow drop
someone's jaw dropped
so quiet one can hear a pin drop
so quiet one could hear a pin drop
so quiet you can hear a pin drop
the penny drops
undropped
wait for the other shoe to drop
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: pik
lang: Albanian
word: bie
lang: Armenian
word: ընկնել
roman: ənknel
lang: Asturian
word: cayer
lang: Asturian
word: caer
lang: Bulgarian
word: падам
roman: padam
lang: Catalan
word: caure
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 滴
roman: dik⁶
lang: Dutch
word: vallen
lang: Estonian
word: tilkuma
lang: Estonian
word: sadama
lang: Estonian
word: kukkuma
lang: Estonian
word: langema
lang: Finnish
word: tippua
lang: Finnish
word: pisaroida
lang: Finnish
word: pudota
lang: French
word: tomber
lang: German
word: fallen
lang: Ingrian
word: langeta
lang: Ingrian
word: tokkua
lang: Ingrian
word: puntsahtaa
lang: Ingrian
word: puota
lang: Old Irish
word: snigid
lang: Italian
word: cadere
lang: Japanese
word: 降下する
roman: kōkasuru
lang: Māori
word: makere
lang: Middle English
word: droppen
lang: Nepali
word: खस्नु
roman: khasnu
lang: Polish
word: spadać
lang: Polish
word: spaść
lang: Polish
word: upadać
lang: Polish
word: upaść
lang: Portuguese
word: cair
lang: Romanian
word: scăpa
lang: Russian
word: па́дать
roman: pádatʹ
lang: Russian
word: упа́сть
roman: upástʹ
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: tuit
lang: Slovak
word: spadnúť
lang: Swedish
word: falla
lang: Telugu
word: పడు
roman: paḍu
lang: Telugu
word: పడిపోవు
roman: paḍipōvu
lang: Bulgarian
word: спадам
roman: spadam
lang: Bulgarian
word: понижавам се
roman: ponižavam se
lang: Dutch
word: dalen
lang: Finnish
word: laskea
lang: Finnish
word: pudota
lang: Finnish
word: pudottaa
lang: Finnish
word: tippua
lang: German
word: sinken
lang: German
word: abnehmen
lang: Irish
word: ísligh
lang: Japanese
word: 降下する
roman: kōkasuru
lang: Polish
word: tracić na wartości
lang: Portuguese
word: baixar
lang: Portuguese
word: cair
lang: Portuguese
word: diminuir
lang: Russian
word: па́дать
roman: pádatʹ
lang: Russian
word: упа́сть
roman: upástʹ
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: tuit
lang: Swedish
word: falla
lang: Telugu
word: పడు
roman: paḍu
lang: Telugu
word: పడిపోవు
roman: paḍipōvu
lang: Tibetan
word: ཆག
roman: chag
lang: Arabic
word: أَسْقَطَ
roman: ʔasqaṭa
lang: Armenian
word: գցել
roman: gcʻel
lang: Aromanian
word: scap
lang: Aromanian
word: ascap
lang: Assamese
word: পেলা
roman: pela
lang: Belarusian
word: губля́ць
roman: hubljácʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: згубі́ць
roman: zhubícʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: упуска́ць
roman: upuskácʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: упусці́ць
roman: upuscícʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: изпускам
roman: izpuskam
lang: Catalan
word: deixar caure
lang: Cebuano
word: hulog
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎤᏬᎰᏎᎭ
roman: uwohoseha
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎠᏙᎥᏅᏗᎭ
roman: adovnvdiha
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎠᏐᎣᏅᏗᎭ
roman: asoonvdiha
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎪᎲᎾᏗᎭ
roman: gohvnadiha
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 使掉落
roman: shǐ diàoluò
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 使落地
roman: shǐ luòdì
lang: Czech
word: upustit
lang: Danish
word: falde
lang: Dutch
word: laten vallen
lang: Finnish
word: pudottaa
lang: Finnish
word: tiputtaa
lang: French
word: laisser tomber
lang: West-Frisian
word: drippe
lang: West-Frisian
word: falle
lang: German
word: fallen lassen
lang: Hebrew
word: הִפִּיל
roman: hipíl
lang: Higaonon
word: naholog
lang: Hungarian
word: elejt
lang: Icelandic
word: detta
lang: Italian
word: lasciare
lang: Japanese
word: 落とす
roman: otosu
lang: Kaurna
word: worniappendi
lang: Khmer
word: ទម្លាក់
roman: tumleak
lang: Korean
word: 떨어뜨리다
roman: tteoreotteurida
lang: Central Kurdish
word: خستن
roman: xistin
lang: Latin
word: dēmittō
lang: Lutuv
word: pathlaa
lang: Nepali
word: खसाउनु
roman: khasāunu
lang: Nepali
word: खस्न दिनु
roman: khasna dinu
lang: Norwegian
word: slippe
lang: Old Norse
word: detta
lang: Polish
word: upuszczać
lang: Portuguese
word: largar
lang: Portuguese
word: deixar cair
lang: Portuguese
word: soltar
lang: Romanian
word: scăpa
lang: Russian
word: роня́ть
roman: ronjátʹ
lang: Russian
word: урони́ть
roman: uronítʹ
lang: Russian
word: броса́ть
roman: brosátʹ
lang: Russian
word: бро́сить
roman: brósitʹ
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: leig às
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ispustiti
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: pušćaś
lang: Spanish
word: dejar caer
lang: Spanish
word: echar
lang: Spanish
word: tirar
lang: Spanish
word: dropear
lang: Spanish
word: caer
lang: Swahili
word: kuangusha
lang: Swedish
word: släppa
lang: Swedish
word: tappa
lang: Thai
word: หยด
roman: yòt
lang: Tibetan
word: ལག་པ་ནས་ཤོར
roman: lag pa nas shor
lang: Tongan
word: fakatooki
lang: Ukrainian
word: упуска́ти
roman: upuskáty
lang: Ukrainian
word: упусти́ти
roman: upustýty
lang: Vietnamese
word: buông rơi
lang: Finnish
word: laskea
lang: Irish
word: ísligh
lang: Polish
word: spuścić
lang: Polish
word: spuszczać
lang: Finnish
word: laskea
lang: Finnish
word: pudota
lang: Irish
word: ísligh
lang: Polish
word: ściszać
lang: Polish
word: ściszyć