Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Something dropped.
- n. The excrement of animals.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of falling in drops; a falling.
- n. That which drops or is dropped: generally in the plural.
- n. Specifically.
- n. plural Dung: especially said of the dung of fowls: as, the droppings of the henroost.
- n. In glass-making, one of the lumps or glob-ules formed in the glass by the glazing of the clay cover of the melting-vessel and its com-bination with the volatilized alkalis. The crude glass thus formed on the cover drops into the molten glass in the vessel, rendering it defective.
- n. plural The waste material which drops under a machine, as in the process of scutching cotton.
- n. A disease of cattle commonly known as milk fever, somewhat analogous to puerperal fever in women: so called because the cow drops to the ground when sick.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of drop.
- n. The act of something that drops or falls.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The action of causing to drop or of letting drop; falling.
- n. That which falls in drops; the excrement or dung of animals; -- often used in the plural.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. coming down freely under the influence of gravity
Examples
“I guess though since a lot of good talent has left Infinity Ward, Activision might think they have a limited time now to capitalize on the popularity of the IP or mitigate the risk of the quality of the title dropping off and selling as much as they can early on.”
“On top of added multiplayer, the unveiling of Big Sister and the title dropping "Sea of Dreams" to simply "BioShock 2", fans of BioShock has been getting a real treat as of late.”
“The label dropping her just puts one more notch on her descent downwards.”
“The redesign failed to turn around a sales decline, with the title dropping 5.1 per cent year-on-year for the first half of 2008, down to 155,076.”
“We ran into one another once at a Woody Allen New Year's party please forgive the name dropping.”
“I knew enough of the industry jargon to feel as though I could carry my side of the conversation, and impress him with my name dropping.”
“Now that's what I call dropping out,' said Rebus.”
“Name dropping is a tried and tested traditional method of reminding people how important you are, and one of the best ways of getting away with it is to thank people for, well, whatever.”
“Starting in July 2008 gasoline prices took an historic plunge dropping from a U.S. average high of $4.11 a gallon all the way down to $1.70 in January 2009.”
“Title drop -- There aren't any guarantees, but you may find that title dropping can increase your chances of special treatment and upgrades.”
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The Glassworks
filigree-glass, vitro-di-trina, reticulated glass, latticinio, schmelze, swing-table, cullet, ratsbane, eskalith, fly-frame, polissoir, flattener and 158 more...
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MEC4 Lesson 154
bird's eye view, subtitle, dry humor, outraged, credence, heated, defile, purist, affected, pompous, incisive, straightforward and 32 more...
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JackCohen Dropping is also combined with "by" or "in" to refer to the act of paying someone or somewhere a visit, usually informally. Example - "I was just dropping in on Aunt Mary when I saw Uncle Harry coming out of the house over the road..." Dec 28, 2010