drop
Meanings
- A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own rounded shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
- A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1).
- A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1).
- A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.
- A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
- Usually preceded by the: alcoholic spirits in general.
- A single measure of whisky.
- That which hangs or resembles a liquid globule, such as a hanging diamond earring or ornament, a glass pendant on a chandelier, etc.
- Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop or piece of licorice; a lozenge.
- An ornament resembling a pendant; a gutta.
- A thing which drops or hangs down.
- The cover mounted on a swivel over a keyhole that rests over the keyhole when not in use to keep out debris, but is swiveled out of the way before inserting the key.
- Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets.
- To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid.
- Of an item: To appear for the player to pick up, usually after an enemy has been defeated.
- To fall or sink quickly or suddenly to the ground.
- To collapse in exhaustion or injury; also, to fall dead, or to fall in death.
- To fall into a particular condition or state.
- To come to an end (by not being kept up); to lapse, to stop.
- To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.
- Of a song or sound: to lower in key, pitch, tempo, or other quality.
- Of a voice: to lower in timbre, often due to puberty.
- 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.
- Usually followed by by, in, or into: of a person: to visit someone or somewhere informally or without a prior appointment.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *dropōn Old English dropian Middle English droppen Proto-Indo-European *dʰrbʰ-néh₂- Proto-Indo-European *dʰrebʰ- Proto-Germanic *dreupaną Proto-Germanic *druppōną Proto-Germanic *drupô Proto-West Germanic *dropō Old English dropa ▲ Middle English droppen Middle English drope ▲ Middle English droppen Middle English droppe English drop From Late Middle English droppe, Middle English drope (“small quantity of liquid; small or least amount of something; pendant jewel; dripping of a liquid; a shower; nasal flow, catarrh; speck, spot; blemish; disease causing spots on the skin”) [and other forms], from Old English dropa (“a drop”), from Proto-West Germanic *dropō (“drop (of liquid)”), from Proto-Germanic *drupô (“drop (of liquid)”),, from *dreupaną (“to drip, droop”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrebʰ- (“to drip, drop”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Droupe, Druppe (“drop”), Dutch drop, drup (“droplet”), German Tropfen (“drop”), German Low German Drüpp (“drop”), Luxembourgish Drëps (“drop”), Vilamovian tropa, troppa (“drop”), Yiddish טראָפּן (tropn, “drop”), Danish dråbe (“drop”), Faroese and Icelandic dropi (“drop”), Norwegian Bokmål dråpe (“drop”), Norwegian Nynorsk drope (“drop”), Swedish droppe (“drop”).