Definition of drop

"drop" in the noun sense

1. drop, bead, pearl

a shape that is spherical and small

"he studied the shapes of low-viscosity drops"

"beads of sweat on his forehead"

2. drop, drib, driblet

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"

3. drop, dip, fall, free fall

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"

4. cliff, drop, drop-off

a steep high face of rock

"he stood on a high cliff overlooking the town"

"a steep drop"

5. drop

a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property)

6. drop, fall

a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity

"it was a miracle that he survived the drop from that height"

7. drop curtain, drop cloth, drop

a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies often used as background scenery

8. drop

a central depository where things can be left or picked up

9. drop

the act of dropping something

"they expected the drop would be successful"

"drop" in the verb sense

1. drop

let fall to the ground

"Don't drop the dishes"

2. drop

to fall vertically

"the bombs are dropping on enemy targets"

3. drop

go down in value

"Stock prices dropped"

4. sink, drop, drop down

fall or descend to a lower place or level

"He sank to his knees"

5. drop

terminate an association with

"drop him from the Republican ticket"

6. drop

utter with seeming casualness

"drop a hint"

"drop names"

7. drop, knock off

stop pursuing or acting

"drop a lawsuit"

"knock it off!"

8. drop, drop off, set down, put down, unload, discharge

remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave

"unload the cargo"

"drop off the passengers at the hotel"

9. fell, drop, strike down, cut down

cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow

"strike down a tree"

"Lightning struck down the hikers"

10. drop

lose (a game

"The Giants dropped 11 of their first 13"

11. spend, expend, drop

pay out

"spend money"

12. flatten, drop

lower the pitch of (musical notes)

13. dangle, swing, drop

hang freely

"the ornaments dangled from the tree"

"The light dropped from the ceiling"

14. dismiss, send packing, send away, drop

stop associating with

"They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock"

15. dribble, drip, drop

let or cause to fall in drops

"dribble oil into the mixture"

16. shed, cast, cast off, shake off, throw, throw off, throw away, drop

get rid of

"he shed his image as a pushy boss"

"shed your clothes"

17. drop

take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth

"She dropped acid when she was a teenager"

18. drop

omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing

"New Englanders drop their post-vocalic r's"

19. neglect, pretermit, omit, drop, miss, leave out, overlook, overleap

leave undone or leave out

"How could I miss that typo?"

"The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"

20. drop

change from one level to another

"She dropped into army jargon"

21. drop

fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death

"shop til you drop"

22. devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate

grow worse

"Her condition deteriorated"

"Conditions in the slums degenerated"

"The discussion devolved into a shouting match"

23. drop

give birth used for animals

"The cow dropped her calf this morning"

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Quotations for drop

Drop by drop. [ French ]

Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink. [ Coleridge ]

And every dew-drop paints a bow. [ Tennyson ]

Drop by drop, the sea is drained. [ Proverb ]

The dew-drop in the breeze of morn,
Trembling and sparkling on the thorn.
Falls to the ground, escapes the eye,
Yet mounts on sunbeams to the sky. [ Montgomery ]

A deluge of words and a drop of sense. [ Proverb ]

A drop of ink may make a million think. [ Byron ]

With eyes
Of microscopic power, that could discern
The population of a dew-drop. [ James Montgomery ]

Music's force can tame the furious beast;
Can make the wolf or foaming boar restrain
His rage; the lion drop his crested mane
Attentive to the song. [ Prior ]

A falling drop at last will carve a stone. [ Lucretius ]

The honey-bee that wanders all day long
The field, the woodland, and the garden over.
To gather in his fragrant winter store.
Humming in calm content his winter song,
Seeks not alone the rose's glowing breast,
The lily's dainty cup, the violet's lips.
But from all rank and noxious weeds he sips
The single drop of sweetness closely pressed
Within the poison chalice. [ Anne C. Lynch Botta ]

Void of all honor, avaricious, rash.
The daring tribe compound their boasted trash -
Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill:
All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill. [ Crabbe ]

A drop of ink has not only saved men but nations. [ J. Baldwin Brown ]

Time is the shower of Danae; each drop is golden. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

A drop of water is as powerful as a thunder-bolt. [ Huxley ]

Spring has no blossom fairer than thy form;
Winter no snow-wreath purer than thy mind;
The dew-drop trembling to the morning beam
Is like thy smile, pure, transient, heaven refin'd. [ Mrs. Lydia Jane Pierson ]

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop
Into thy mother's lap. [ Milton ]

A drop of good fortune rather than a cask of wisdom. [ Proverb ]

Words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling like dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. [ Byron ]

You may follow him long ere a shilling drop from him. [ Proverb ]

Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch. [ Bruyere ]

Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread. [ Hood ]

A drop of honey catches more flies than a hogshead of vinegar. [ Proverb ]

More flies are taken with a drop of honey than a tun of vinegar. [ Proverb ]

The drop hollows the stone not by force, but by continually falling. [ Proverb ]

For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief. [ Dr. Watts ]

The flowering moments of the mind drop half their petals in our speech. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

A small drop of ink makes many men honest, who would be rogues without it. [ W. Unsworth ]

The tear down childhood's cheek that flows is like the dew-drop on the rose. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

On this side and on that, men see their friends drop off like leaves in autumn. [ Blair ]

A drop of water has all the properties of water, but it cannot exhibit a storm. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

If you drop your keys into molten lava just let 'em go 'cause, man, they're gone." [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Economy is a savings bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]

Respect your wife. Heap earth around that flower, but never drop any in the chalice. [ A. de Musset ]

One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Men drop so fast, ere life's mid stage we tread, Few know so many friends alive, as dead. [ Young ]

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, wealth may seek us; but wisdom must be sought. [ Young ]

Memory is like a purse: if it be overfull, that it cannot be shut, all will drop out of it. [ Fuller ]

Long, glorious locks, which drop upon thy cheek like gold-hued cloudflakes on the rosy morn. [ Bailey ]

Women swallow at one mouthful the lie that flatters, and drink drop by drop a truth that is bitter. [ Diderot ]

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. [ H. Ballou ]

The curtains of Yesterday drop down, the curtains of Tomorrow roll up, but Yesterday and Tomorrow both are. [ Carlyle ]

Remember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility. [ G. H. Lewes ]

The drop hollows the stone, the ring is worn by use, and the crooked ploughshare is frayed away by the pressure of the earth. [ Ovid ]

A summer friendship, whose flattering leaves, that shadowed us in our prosperity, with the least gust drop off in the autumn of adversity. [ Massinger ]

O earth! I will befriend thee more with rain than youthful April shall with all his showers; in summer's drought I'll drop upon thee still. [ William Shakespeare ]

The flavor of detached thoughts depends upon the conciseness of their expression: for thoughts are grains of sugar, or of salt, that must be melted in a drop of water. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Truth is always consistent with itself and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware. [ Tillotson ]

Like an old woman at her hearth, we warm our hands at our sorrows and drop in faggots, and each thinks his own fire a sun in presence of which all other fires should go out. [ J. M. Barrie ]

Melancholy, or low spirits, is that hysterical passion which forces unbidden sighs and tears; it falls upon a contented life, like a drop of ink on white paper, which is not the less a stain that it carries no meaning with it. [ Sir W. Scott ]

Love one human being with warmth and purity, and thou wilt love the world. The heart, in that celestial sphere of love, is like the sun in its course. From the drop on the rose to the ocean, all is for him a mirror, which he fills and brightens. [ Jean Paul ]

It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past; the limbs have just been tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labor of the day is gone. [ Leigh Hunt ]

There is dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens its cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself and the drop runs off. So God rains goodness and mercy as wide as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we do not open our hearts to receive them. [ Aughey ]

You will find it less easy to uproot faults than to choke them by gaining virtues. Do not think of your faults; still less of others faults. In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; rejoice in it ; as you can, try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. [ Ruskin ]

There is a hand that has no heart in it, there is a claw or paw, a flipper or fin, a bit of wet cloth to take hold of, a piece of unbaked dough on the cook's trencher, a cold clammy thing we recoil from, or greedy clutch with the heat of sin, which we drop as a burning coal. What a scale from the talon to the horn of plenty, is this human palmleaf! Sometimes it is what a knifeshaped, thin-bladed tool we dare not grasp, or like a poisonous thing we shake off, or unclean member, which, white as it may look, we feel polluted by! [ C. A. Bartol ]

The first being that rushes to the recollection of a soldier or a sailor, in his heart's difficulty, is his mother; she clings to his memory and affection in the midst of all the f orgetf ulness and hardihood induced by a roving life; the last message he leaves is for her; his last whisper breathes her name. The mother, as she instills the lessons of piety and filial obligation into the heart of her infant son, should always feel that her labor is not in vain. She may drop into the grave, but she has left behind her influences that will work for her. The bow is broken, but the arrow is sped, and will do its ofiice. [ A. H. Motte ]

All things are engaged in writing their history. The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow. The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain; the river, its channel in the soil; the animal, its bones in the stratum; the fern and leaf, their modest epitaph in the coal. The falling drop makes its sculpture in the sand or the stone. Not a foot steps into the snow or along the ground, but prints, in characters more or less lasting, a map of its march. Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of its fellows, and in his own manners and face. The air is full of sounds, the sky of tokens, the ground is all memoranda and signatures, and every object covered over with hints which speak to the intelligent. [ Emerson ]

drop in Scrabble®

The word drop is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

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drop in Words With Friends™

The word drop is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

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Words within the letters of drop

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4 letter words in drop (Anagrams) (2 words)

drop + 1 blank (7 words)

Words containing the sequence drop

Words with drop in them (153 words)

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Longer words containing drop

achondroplastic

airdrop airdropped

airdrop airdropping

airdrop airdrops

androphagi

androphobe androphobes

androphobia

androphobic androphobics

androphore androphores

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andropolygamy

backdrop backdropped

backdrop backdropping

backdrop backdrops

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blooddrop blooddrops

chondropharyngeal

chondrophore chondrophores

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chondrophorine chondrophorines

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chondroplasia achondroplasia

chondroplasia hypochondroplasia

chondroprotein chondroproteins

coughdrop

dendrophage dendrophages

dendrophagia

dendrophagic

dendrophagy

dendrophile

dendrophobe dendrophobes

dendrophobia

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dewdrop dewdrops

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eyedrop eyedrops

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hydroperoxide hydroperoxides

hydrophilic hydrophilicity

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hydrophobe hydrophobes pseudohydrophobes

hydrophobe pseudohydrophobe pseudohydrophobes

hydrophobia pseudohydrophobia

hydrophobic hydrophobicity

hydrophobic hydrophobics pseudohydrophobics

hydrophobic pseudohydrophobic pseudohydrophobics

hydrophobic superhydrophobic

hydrophobin hydrophobins

hydrophone hydrophones

hydrophthalmia

hydrophthalmic

hydrophthalmos

hydrophyte hydrophytes mesohydrophytes

hydrophyte mesohydrophyte mesohydrophytes

hydrophytic mesohydrophytic

hydropic

hydroplane hydroplaned

hydroplane hydroplanes

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hydroplatinocyanic

hydropneumothorax hydropneumothoraxes

hydroponic hydroponically

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hydropower hydropowered

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hydropyrazine hydropyrazines

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osteochondropathy

osteochondrophyte osteochondrophytes

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perhydrophenanthrene perhydrophenanthrenes

quadrophonic quadrophonical quadrophonically

quadrophonic quadrophonics

quadrophony

raindrop raindrops

snowdrop snowdrops

sudrophone sudrophones

tetrahydropterin tetrahydropterins

tetrahydropyrimidine tetrahydropyrimidines

waterdrop waterdroplet waterdroplets

waterdrop waterdropper waterdroppers

waterdrop waterdrops