(n.) The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a fluid; a small quantity; as, a drop of water.
(n.) That which resembles, or that which hangs like, a liquid drop; as a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug.
(n.) Same as Gutta.
(n.) Any small pendent ornament.
(n.) Whatever is arranged to drop, hang, or fall from an elevated position; also, a contrivance for lowering something
(n.) A door or platform opening downward; a trap door; that part of the gallows on which a culprit stands when he is to be hanged; hence, the gallows itself.
(n.) A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship's deck.
(n.) A contrivance for temporarily lowering a gas jet.
(n.) A curtain which drops or falls in front of the stage of a theater, etc.
(n.) A drop press or drop hammer.
(n.) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
(n.) Any medicine the dose of which is measured by drops; as, lavender drops.
(n.) The depth of a square sail; -- generally applied to the courses only.
(n.) Act of dropping; sudden fall or descent.
(n.) To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules; to distill.
(n.) To cause to fall in one portion, or by one motion, like a drop; to let fall; as, to drop a line in fishing; to drop a courtesy.
(n.) To let go; to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to omit.
(n.) To bestow or communicate by a suggestion; to let fall in an indirect, cautious, or gentle manner; as, to drop hint, a word of counsel, etc.
(n.) To lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc.
(n.) To send, as a letter; as, please drop me a line, a letter, word.
(n.) To give birth to; as, to drop a lamb.
(n.) To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
(v. i.) To fall in drops.
(v. i.) To fall, in general, literally or figuratively; as, ripe fruit drops from a tree; wise words drop from the lips.
(v. i.) To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
(v. i.) To fall dead, or to fall in death.
(v. i.) To come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as, the affair dropped.
(v. i.) To come unexpectedly; -- with in or into; as, my old friend dropped in a moment.
(v. i.) To fall or be depressed; to lower; as, the point of the spear dropped a little.
(v. i.) To fall short of a mark.
(v. i.) To be deep in extent; to descend perpendicularly; as, her main topsail drops seventeen yards.
Example Sentences:
(1) But soon after aid workers departed, barrel bombs dropped by Syrian helicopters caused renewed destruction.
(2) Systolic blood pressure dropped following clonidine, showing a significantly greater drop for the medium and high doses than for the low dose.
(3) In four main regions the conservation varied from 83-91% while in the remaining regions the homology dropped to between 56-62%.
(4) David Cameron last night hit out at his fellow world leaders after the G8 dropped the promise to meet the historic aid commitments made at Gleneagles in 2005 from this year's summit communique.
(5) "There is … a risk that the political, trade, and gas frictions with Russia could lead to strong deterioration in economic relations between the two countries, with a significant drop in Ukraine's exports to and imports from Russia.
(6) EI showed a tendency to drop from week 20 to week 40 in the men and a tendency to increase from week 20 to week 40 in the women.
(7) The percentage of eggs clamped at values more negative than -65 mV, which responded at insemination by developing an If, decreased and dropped to 0 at -80 mV.
(8) I hope they fight for the money to make their jobs worth doing, because it's only with the money (a drop in the ocean though it may be) that they'll be able to do anything.
(9) "Indeed, there was a marked drop in sentiment in Germany , indicating that it is increasingly being affected by the problems elsewhere in the eurozone."
(10) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
(11) By vaccinating adult dogs in boarding kennels the morbidity rate dropped from 83.5% to 6.5% and the mortality rate from 4.1% to 0.5%.
(12) Subjects who trained an additional 52 wk showed a slight drop in SV at submaximal work loads from the initial increase following the first 9 wk.
(13) The drop in endosome pH increased and the shape of the distribution changed when the time between FITC-dextran infusion and kidney removal was increased from 5 to 20 min.
(14) Estimated fluid consumption dropped from 10 liters to 4 liters daily and incidents of hyponatremia decreased by 62%.
(15) Here's Dominic's full story: US unemployment rate drops to lowest level in six years as 288,000 jobs added Michael McKee (@mckonomy) BNP economists say jobless rate would have been 6.8% if not for drop in participation rate May 2, 2014 2.20pm BST ING's Rob Carnell is also struck by the "extraordinary weakness" of US wage growth .
(16) The Italian coastguard ship Bruno Gregoracci docked in Malta at about 8am and dropped off two dozen bodies recovered from this weekend’s wreck, including children, according to Save the Children.
(17) However, coinciding with the height of inflammation and clinical signs at 12 dpi, the GFAP mRNA content dropped to approximately 50% of the level at 11 dpi but rose again at 13 dpi.
(18) Mutai dropped back and Kebede proved too strong for Kirui, the world champion.
(19) The same dose of clonidine evoked a much larger drop in blood pressure in another group of rats in which an equialent increase in blood pressure was produced by bilateral section of the vagosympathetic trunks and occlusion of both carotid arteries.
(20) The risks are determined, mainly by expert committees, from the steadily growing information on exposed human populations, especially the survivors of the atomic bombs dropped in Japan in 1945.
Plump
Definition:
(adv.) Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks.
(n.) A knot; a cluster; a group; a crowd; a flock; as, a plump of trees, fowls, or spears.
(a.) To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped.
(a.) To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
(a.) To give a plumper. See Plumper, 2.
(v. t.) To make plump; to fill (out) or support; -- often with up.
(v. t.) To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily; as, to plump a stone into water.
(v. t.) To give (a vote), as a plumper. See Plumper, 2.
(a. & v.) Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.
Example Sentences:
(1) My grandfather was a coal miner and Nana was rather plump and bossy.
(2) Their current Westminster tally is strikingly close, too, to the 45% of the constituency vote that gave Alex Salmond his great Holyrood landslide in 2011, and indeed to the 44% who tell ICM in Friday’s survey that they would plump for the nationalists if there were a fresh ballot for their local Holyrood seat.
(3) Some plump for Your Love , with its distinctive keyboard figure that subsequently turned up both on Candi Staton and the Source's endlessly reissued and covered 1991 hit You Got The Love and, of all things, psychedelic rock band Animal Collective's My Girls.
(4) The company had originally plumped for the name Fox Group, but announced its change of mind in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
(5) Approximately 40% of the plump, spindle-shaped cells that formed the background stroma of these tumors possessed the antigen; however, it was not present on giant cells.
(6) For alkaline phosphatase and adenosine triphosphatase particularly, positive cells and negative cells coexisted, as in the large plump cells of synovial sarcoma.
(7) Sclerosed areas with scarce and plump villi as well as sometimes hyperplastic and polymorphous synovial cell layers could be demonstrated histologically in the tissue specimens of the needle biopsies in cases with gout.
(8) But soon Gontar would see the same plump women and the same injured men appearing in different newscasts, identified as different people.
(9) There are queues at communal water tanks and the irrigated fields plump with crops abruptly give way to hard-baked soil forced to sit fallow.
(10) More peripherally there is a cellular zone containing elongated or plump tumor cells embedded in a fibromyxoid stroma.
(11) The mediastinal milky spots were generally covered with plump mesothelial cells with hemidesmosome-like structures in small projections of the cytoplasm, and consisted mainly of clusters of lymphocytes, macrophages and fibroblasts.
(12) This Week host Andrew Neil predicted 12 million for the leaders' debate, while regular sofa sidekick Michael Portillo plumped for 6 million – so that one goes to Neil, narrowly.
(13) ('Bulkiness' is the average cross-sectional area, or 'plumpness', of a side-chain.)
(14) Melanocytomas are pigmented tumors of the uvea and optic nerve head composed of plump polyhedral melanocytes which have been regarded as nevus cells.
(15) It can snatch a creature as small as a beetle or as bulky as a duck, but its favourite food on high moors is a plump little bird greatly prized by game shooters: the red grouse.
(16) One reader chose Zoë Heller's The Believers, about the dysfunctional Litvinoff family, another plumped for Sue Miller's While I Was Gone, in which a woman is forced to confront the murder of her best friend 30 years ago, a third pointed readers towards Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake, about an Indian boy growing up in America.
(17) Biopsy showed collagenous stroma containing spindle cells and irregular trabeculae of woven bone rimmed by plump osteoblasts.
(18) Of particular interest is a number of tumor cells with plump, bizarre nuclei which contain cross-striations of skeletal muscle pattern.
(19) The tumor cells were uniform in appearance, plump and polyhedral, with distinct finely granular eosinophilic cytoplasm, and were arranged in solid acinar groups.
(20) And here’s a statistic that should terrify anyone who leans to the left: nearly nine out of 10 Austrian manual workers plumped for the far right.