architectureThat which hangs or resembles a liquid globule, such as a hanging diamond earring or ornament, a glass pendant on a chandelier, etc.

A thing which drops or hangs down.

agriculturebusinesslifestyleA thing which drops or hangs down.

• Drops are another source of juice apple supply. As the pickers pick apples in orchards oriented toward fresh-market or canning apples, apples fall or are accidentally knocked to the ground; these are drops. The only use for drops is juice production.
• Drops are fruit that has fallen to the ground naturally or that is dropped or knocked off during harvest. Drops have no value except for pressing for juice. While the value of drops is usually minimal, they must be removed from the orchards; otherwise, they attract mice which later in the season, once the apples are gone, gnaw on the roots of apple trees.

American-footballball-gamesfootballA thing which drops or hangs down.

• Yet another drop for the Tiger tight end.

governmentlaw-enforcementA thing which drops or hangs down.

• […] and lo! the gallows is built up; the solemn bell tolls through the dismal gray of the early morning, the drop creaks under the guilty feet, and the penalty of crime is paid.
• She. Have you ever seen a man hanged? He. Yes. Once. She. What was it for? He. Murder, of course. She. Murder. Is that so great a sin after all? I wonder how he felt before the drop fell.

gamesgamingvideo-gamesA thing which drops or hangs down.

engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesA thing which drops or hangs down.

communicationselectrical-engineeringengineeringA thing which drops or hangs down.

• Do a drop for the telephone gang, then another drop for the Internet gang, both through the ceiling of the wiring closet.

entertainmentlifestyletheaterA thing which drops or hangs down.

• La Cage's upstage drops include two of the St. Tropez harbor (one for the day and another for the night), [... an] ocean drop (used in an Act I dream sequence), and an abstract chandelier drop (used in the second act[…]).
• In The Rover, one of these esthetically important elements was the arrangement of the upstage drops. Originally the drop was split into three sections, with obvious and blatant seams between them.

An act or instance of dropping (in all senses).

• That was a long drop, but fortunately I didn’t break any bones.
• The slope of the terrain, shaped like a funnel, squeezed the growing swell of churning snow into a steep, twisting gorge. It moved in surges, like a roller coaster on a series of drops and high-banked turns.

An act or instance of dropping (in all senses).

• The delivery driver has to make three more drops before lunch.
• The spy made the drop, leaving the plans under the tree as arranged.

An act or instance of dropping (in all senses).

• 2002 saw the drop of a new album whose title riffed on the many magazine cover stories calling Sum 41's music infectious.
• Turned out this was the drop party for popster Effigy's latest release, BeatMeKickMeHoldMe.

gamblinggamesAn act or instance of dropping (in all senses).

• What the first column in the table shows you is how much the casinos won as a percentage of the drop. For example, on the roulette table for every $100 that went into the drop box the casino wonj $22.70 or 22.70%. […] In other words, the drop tells you how many chips were bought at that table, but it doesn't tell you how many bets were made with those chips.

informalgovernmentlaw-enforcementAn act or instance of dropping (in all senses).

• [A]ll those present shared the all-important political connections required to get a ticket to the execution. News reporters, doctors, and members of the juries had prime spots right by the platform, so that they could see the drop and record the time of death.

hobbieslifestylesportsAn act or instance of dropping (in all senses).

hobbieslifestylesportsAn act or instance of dropping (in all senses).

• You take off, make the steep drop, hear the white water rumbling behind you and feel the spray on your back.

datedbankingbusinessAn act or instance of dropping (in all senses).

A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.

• The drop in demand for oil resulted in a drop in prices.
• [T]he volume of money was expected to fluctuate with the volume of business activity so that a drop in business activity would bring a drop in the volume of money outstanding. […] If the volume of money is reduced, it tends to produce a slight drop in demand for all sorts of commodities.

businessmanufacturingsewingA decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.

businessmanufacturingsewingA decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.

The distance through which something drops, or falls below a certain level.

• On one side of the road was a 50-foot drop.
• An Ananda truck coming down a steep, winding mountain road completely lost its brakes and crashed through a thin guard rail over an almost sheer 1000 foot drop. It was caught and held by a solitary tree that was growing in the one and only spot where it could prevent a certain fatal plunge. No one was even slightly injured.

The distance through which something drops, or falls below a certain level.

engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesThe distance through which something drops, or falls below a certain level.

governmentlaw-enforcementThe distance through which something drops, or falls below a certain level.

nauticaltransportThe distance through which something drops, or falls below a certain level.

• A further point is, that the convenience of the ship herself may interfere with the disposition of sails. A high forecastle will shorten the drop of the foresail, and a poop may seriously interfere with the spanker.
• Her mainyard was 80 feet long, and her mainsail had a drop of 40 feet.

A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, whether openly (as with a mail drop), or secretly or illegally (as in crime or espionage); a drop-off point.

• I left the plans at the drop, like you asked.
• A drop is a place where the stolen property can be stored. It may be a warehouse, an apartment, or a garage. At the drop, a group of persons called loaders remove the merchandise from the truck and store it.

informalOnly used in get the drop on, have the drop on: an advantage.

entertainmentlifestylemusicA point in a song, usually electronic music such as dubstep, house, trance, or trap, where there is a very noticeable and pleasing change in bass, tempo, and/or overall tone; a climax, a highlight.

• But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which [Justin] Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM [electronic dance music] accouterments, seeking a comfortable middle ground where Bieber’s impressively refined pop-R&B croon can rub up on techno blasts and garish dubstep drops (and occasionally grind on some AutoTune, not necessarily because it needs it, but because a certain amount of robo-voice is expected these days).
• Just as dubstep has grown in popularity and combined with many different genres, the drop has become a generalized type of which there are many individually varying instances, including dubstep bass-drop. As LA Times critic Randall Roberts notes, even good-girl tween pop idol Taylor Swift uses a drop in her Max-Martin-Produced track “I Knew You Were Trouble.”

slangAn automobile with a drop-top roof, a convertible.

ball-gamescricketgamesA place (specified by an ordinal) in the batting order after the openers.

• `Well what about first drop then? Garner will be on by then, I'll smash him all over the park.'

To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.

• My synthesizer makes the notes sound funny when they drop below C2.
• The song, 180 beats per minute, drops to 150 BPM near the end.

To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.

• Billy’s voice dropped suddenly when he turned 12.
• The 18-year-old [Justin] Bieber can’t quite pull off the “adult” thing just yet: His voice may have dropped a bit since the days of “Baby,” but it still mostly registers as “angelic,” and veers toward a pubescent whine at times.

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.

• Do drop by soon and I’ll lend you that book.
• We’ll drop in on her tomorrow.

broadcastingcomputingengineeringOf a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution.

• The album Hip-Hop Xmas dropped in time for the holidays.

gamblinggamesTo drop out of the betting.

• But more important, if I dropped, Marty would have won the hand automatically.

informalmedicinephysiologysciencesOf the testicles: to hang further away from the body and begin producing sperm due to puberty.

obsoleteTo let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.

• The heavens […] dropped at the presence of God.

To drip (a liquid) in drops or small amounts.

• The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.
• persons, dropping sweat-drops or blood-drops

To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).

• Don’t drop that plate!    The police ordered the men to drop their weapons.
• But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from the aircraft they should have been dropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits of debris, and the line to a huge crater.

gamesgamingvideo-gamesTo let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).

• The monsters drop health pickups when killed.
• When opened, these chests have a chance to drop powerful items.

To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.

• The stare seemed to abash Poirot. He dropped his eyes and began fiddling with the papers in front of him.

To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.

cookingfoodlifestyleTo move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.

• Drop a basket of fries.

To reduce; to make smaller.

• Here is a simple example: suppose you are in the process of writing a 15-page proposal and at a certain point you decide that, in order to fit all your material, you want to drop the font size from 12 to 11.

Of an animal (usually a sheep): to give birth to (young); of a bird: to lay (an egg).

• to drop a lamb

To mention (something) casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.

• The lecturer would drop hints whenever the students struggled.
• name drop

To let (a letter, etc.) fall into a postbox; hence, to send (a letter, email, or other message) in an offhand manner.

• As she had a free moment, she dropped her a text.
• Drop me a note when you get to the city.

To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot, etc.; to bring down, to shoot down; to kill.

• Make any sudden movements and I will drop you!
• That gang rules the streets, dropping opponents with guns, bombs and other weapons.

To set down (someone or something) from a vehicle; to stop and deliver or deposit (someone or something); to drop off.

• Could you drop me at the airport on your way to work tomorrow?
• I’ll be dropping the parcel at your place later.

To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.

entertainmentlifestylemusicTo lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.

To cease concerning oneself over (someone or something); to have nothing more to do with (a discussion, subject, etc.).

• I’m tired of this subject. Will you just drop it?
• They suddenly dropt the pursuit.

To dispose or get rid of (something); to lose, to remove.

• I dropped ten pounds and an obnoxious fiancée.

To cease to include (something), as if on a list; to dismiss, to eject, to expel.

• I’ve been dropped from the football team.
• If Carly Telford’s replacement of Karen Bardsley, because of a hamstring injury, was enforced, the switch to 4-4-1-1 was not. This new-look configuration saw Rachel Daly deployed in front of Lucy Bronze down the right, Toni Duggan and Fran Kirby dropped, Beth Mead introduced on the left and Nikita Parris moved up front.

To cancel or cease to participate in (a scheduled course, event, or project).

• I had to drop calculus because it was taking up too much of my time.
• The specialists she had taken her daughter to see attributed her collection of symptoms to the lingering effect of the many concussions she suffered playing sports. She had at least one concussion every year since she was in the fourth grade. Because of her frequent head injuries, her parents made her drop all her sports.

slangTo lose, spend, or otherwise part with (money).

• My friends went to the football game, but I skipped, as I had just dropped a lot of money on a new bike wheel.
• The question was: Who put the most in the collection box? The wealthy guy, who dropped a “C” note, or the tattered old dame who parted with her last tarnished penny.

slangTo pass or use (counterfeit cheques, money, etc.).

slangTo impart (something).

• I drop knowledge wherever I go.

slangEspecially in drop acid: to swallow (a drug, particularly LSD).

broadcastingcomputingengineeringTo release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public.

• They dropped the album Hip-Hop Xmas in time for the holidays.
• That hacker has been threatening to drop my docs [i.e. publish my personal information].

human-scienceslinguisticssciencesTo fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.).

• Cockneys drop their aitches.

entertainmentlifestylemusicTo play (a portion of music) in the manner of a disc jockey.

• I love it when he drops his funky beats.
• That guy can drop the bass like a monster.

entertainmentlifestylemusicTo perform (rap music).

• Yo, I drop rhymes like nobody’s business.

hobbieslifestylesportsTo (unexpectedly) lose (a competition, game, etc.).

ball-gamescricketgamesOf a fielder: to fail to dismiss (a batsman) by accidentally dropping a batted ball that had initially been caught.

• Warne dropped Tendulkar on 99. Tendulkar went on to get a century next ball.

ball-gamesgameshobbiesTo score (a goal) by means of a drop kick.

archaicTo cover (something) with or as if with drops, especially of a different colour; to bedrop, to variegate.

• their waved coats dropped with gold

computingengineeringmathematicsTo enter a more basic interface.

• Next, you drop to a shell.

computingengineeringmathematicsTo present (the user) with a more basic interface.

• The next step drops the user to a recovery shell.

slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsTo make someone, or be made to do push-ups or some other form of exercise on the ground as punishment.

• Drop and give me 20, now!

slangTo bring a check to a table.