drop
verb
[ drɒp ]
• let or make (something) fall vertically.
• "the fire was caused by someone dropping a lighted cigarette"
Similar:
let fall,
let go (of),
fail to hold,
lose one's grip on,
release,
unhand,
relinquish,
put,
place,
rest,
deposit,
set,
set down,
lay,
leave,
settle,
shove,
stick,
position,
station,
pop,
plonk,
Opposite:
hold on to,
lift,
pick up,
• fall vertically.
• "the spoon dropped with a clatter from her hand"
Similar:
drip,
fall in drops,
fall,
dribble,
trickle,
drizzle,
flow,
run,
plop,
leak,
come/go down,
descend,
sink,
plunge,
plummet,
dive,
nosedive,
tumble,
pitch,
slump,
• make or become lower, weaker, or less.
• "he dropped his voice as she came into the room"
Similar:
decrease,
lessen,
make less,
reduce,
diminish,
depreciate,
fall,
drop off,
decline,
become less,
dwindle,
sink,
slump,
slacken off,
plunge,
plummet,
• abandon or discontinue (a course of action or study).
• "the charges against him were dropped last year"
Similar:
give up,
finish with,
withdraw from,
retire from,
cancel,
discontinue,
end,
stop,
cease,
halt,
terminate,
abandon,
forgo,
relinquish,
dispense with,
have done with,
throw up,
pack in,
quit,
cry off,
• set down or unload (a passenger or goods), especially on the way to somewhere else.
• "his mum dropped him outside and drove off to work"
• (in sport) fail to win (a point or a match).
• "the club have yet to drop a point in the Second Division"
Similar:
lose,
fail to win,
concede,
miss out on,
give away,
let slip,
• be forced to play (a relatively high card) as a loser under an opponent's higher card, because it is the only card in its suit held in the hand.
• "East drops the 10 on the second round"
drop
noun
• a small round or pear-shaped portion of liquid that hangs or falls or adheres to a surface.
• "the first drops of rain splashed on the ground"
Similar:
droplet,
blob,
globule,
bead,
bubble,
tear,
dot,
spheroid,
oval,
glob,
• an instance of falling or dropping.
• "they left within five minutes of the drop of the curtain"
• a delivery.
• "I got to the depot and made the drop"
• a small, round sweet or lozenge.
• "a chocolate drop"
• an earring that hangs down from the earlobe.
• "simple amethyst and diamond drops"
• a section of theatrical scenery lowered from the flies; a drop cloth or drop curtain.
• a trapdoor on a gallows, the opening of which causes the prisoner to fall and thus be hanged.
• "warders, standing on planks, invariably flanked the prisoners on the drop"
Origin:
Old English dropa (noun), droppian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to German Tropfen ‘a drop’, tropfen ‘to drip’, also to drip and droop.
