(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.
Punt
Definition:
(v. i.) To play at basset, baccara, faro. or omber; to gamble.
(n.) Act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
(n.) A flat-bottomed boat with square ends. It is adapted for use in shallow waters.
(v. t.) To propel, as a boat in shallow water, by pushing with a pole against the bottom; to push or propel (anything) with exertion.
(v. t.) To kick (the ball) before it touches the ground, when let fall from the hands.
(n.) The act of punting the ball.
Example Sentences:
(1) Abbott has punted some key decisions off into a new defence white paper he'll commision if he wins next Saturday.
(2) Brees is sacked by Cliff Avril on third-and-nine, taking his team out of field goal range, and instead Thomas Morstead comes back out to punt.
(3) 6.46pm GMT Falcons 10 - Seahawks 0, 0:31 1st quarter On 3rd down, Wilson can't find Golden Tate on the far sideline and Seattle punt it down to the Atlanta 13.
(4) What a complete mess - a miscued shot, scuffed clearance, and uncontrolled toe-punt as he fell - but a decisive mess all the same."
(5) Backed up against his own end zone after a tremendous Anger punt, Ryan Fitzpatrick succeeded in dumping the ball off to Shonn Greene but then found that his team had given up a safety anyway, on account of a holding call against Chance Warmack in the end zone.
(6) Little Defoe was allowed to meet a hopeful punt with his head, mid-way inside the Arsenal half, and flick on the ball to Rafael van der Vaart.
(7) McGuinness added that the republic was better off when it had its own currency, the punt.
(8) 2.01am GMT Florida State 3-0 Auburn, 5:30, 1st quarter And THERE'S CHRIS DAVIS, he returns Guayo's punt for 22 yards to get Auburn to the Florida State 22!
(9) Sports Direct, the retailer run by its mecurial founder Mike Ashley, bought a 4.6% stake in Debenhams on Thursday night, in the company’s latest multimillion pound punt on a rival retailers’ shares.
(10) June 24, 2014 5.46pm BST Half time: Costa Rica 0-0 England 45 mins: A long punt downfield has the England defence in all sorts of trouble.
(11) Jay Prosch almost muffs a punt and then Auburn goes 3 and out, including an inexplicable wildcat play on 2nd down.
(12) Sacked by Dee Ford, AGAIN, for eight yards to force a punt.
(13) Akinfeev's punt upfield caused consternation in a City defence that never seems the same when Vincent Kompany, still sidelined with a thigh injury , is absent.
(14) 3.41am GMT Ravens 34 - 49ers 29, 0:11 of 4th Quarter On 3rd & 8, Leach runs for a few yards, and the Ravens call time before punting it away.
(15) Chris Davis almost muffs the punt return for Auburn, that's not as dirty as it sounds.
(16) 2.12am GMT And we're back On 3rd & 13, Kaepernick throws short to Walker, short of the first down, and the 49ers punt it into the end zone.
(17) Deep into stoppage time, Allardyce’s defence showed the same nervousness about which he had complained in last weekend’s draw at Stoke, failing to deal either with Cesc Fàbregas’s upfield punt or the header from César Azpilicueta that played in Nemanja Matic who finished neatly past the advancing Mannone.
(18) Panama try a punt forward from a free kick, but it's pretty optimistic and the US cheerfully clear it.
(19) He’s doing what he feels is right and that’s why he’s paid to be manager, to make those decisions.” Even as an inexperienced team they should not have been undone by a hopeful punt into a cluttered penalty box by one of the poorer sides at this tournament.
(20) Doing so would punt the fight over whether to lock in 2014 sequestration levels at $967 billion until December.