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  • noun A single drop of water.

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Examples

  • Then, over the sound of dreamy synth chords and overly-echoed piano notes that are probably listed as "ethereal waterdrop" on the keyboard's patches directory, Rick Perry appears.

    HUFFPOST HILL - Rick Santorum To Feed His Crappy Campaign Some Willow Bark Tea Eliot Nelson 2011

  • I look at things like a waterdrop on a leaf, the tiny flowers on some weeds, things like that, and I have a few postcards and pictures of places that make me feel happy and safe pinned up casually behind my desk for staring it.

    Productivity in the Face of Personal Issues Candid Engineer 2008

  • "D.C. Water and Sewer Authority" will remain its corporate moniker, but its public face will involve a green-and-blue "dc" paired with a stylized waterdrop and the agency's new slogan: "water is life."

    Goodbye D.C. WASA; hello 'D.C. Water' 2010

  • Not the waterdrop by the pond dune, the one by MAX's old curl-up spot.

    MAX & MAY Reynard Seifert 2009

  • Aquaman takes a sample of the water to Atlantean scientist Vulkomaking his first appearance and looking decades younger than he would later on, and after careful examination they realize that the waterdrop contains a whole universe inside it.

    Archive 2008-01-01 rob! 2008

  • It was more like he had another hand that skittered through the soil and rock as fast as a waterdrop on a hot griddle.

    Prentice Alvin Card, Orson Scott 1989

  • He was no longer hanging in a blue void but falling, tumbling, flying toward a waterdrop of light.

    In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984

  • Sunlight glinted off millions of waterdrop jewels in the trees.

    True Names Vinge, Vernor 1984

  • Through the mist the dawn broke pearly gray at first and then iridescent; and, when the first sunrays penetrated the white haze and gilded every leaf-edge, turning the tree-tops to gold and making every waterdrop a diamond, no lovelier morning could be imagined.

    Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Edward Lucas White 1900

  • Idris saw me: with light step she advanced; as I folded her in my arms, feeling, as I did, that I thus enclosed what was to me a world, yet frail as the waterdrop which the noon-day sun will drink from the water lily's cup; tears filled my eyes, unwont to be thus moistened.

    II.6 1826

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