Word Type
Drop can be a noun or a verb.
drop used as a noun:
- A small mass of liquid just large enough to hold its own weight via surface tension, usually one that falls from a source of liquid.
"Put three drops of oil into the mixture." - The space or distance below a cliff or other high position into which someone or something could fall.
"On one side of the road was a 50-foot drop." - A fall, descent; an act of dropping.
"That was a long drop, but fortunately I didn't break any bones." - A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, sometimes associated with criminal activity; a drop-off point.
"I left the plans at the drop, like you asked." - An instance of dropping supplies or making a delivery, sometimes associated with delivery of supplies by parachute.
"The delivery driver has to make three more drops before lunch." - a small amount of an alcoholic beverage; or when used with the definite article (the drop), alcoholic spirits in general.
"He usually enjoys a drop after dinner." - A single measure of whisky.
- A small, round, sweet piece of hard candy, e.g. a lemon drop; a lozenge.
- A dropped pass.
"Yet another drop for the Tiger tight end." - Short for drop-back or drop back.
"The Tiger quarterback took a one-step drop, expecting his tight end to be open." - In a woman, the difference between bust circumference and hip circumference; in a man, the difference between chest circumference and waist circumference.
- Any item dropped by defeated enemies.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
drop used as a verb:
- To fall.
"A single shot was fired and the bird dropped from the sky." - To lessen, decrease, or diminish in value, condition, degree, etc.
"The stock dropped 1.5% yesterday." - To lower oneself quickly to the ground.
"Drop and give me thirty push-ups, private!" - To allow to fall, either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on.
"Don't drop that plate!" - To get rid of; to eject; to remove; to dismiss; to cease to include, as if on a list.
"I dropped ten pounds and an obnoxious fiance." - To write and send (as a letter or message). See also drop (someone) a line.
"Drop me a note when you get to the city." - To cease concerning oneself over; to stop discussing with someone.
"I'm tired of this subject. Will you just drop it?" - To express or utter casually or incidentally; to casually mention, usually in conversation, sometimes to give an impression of knowledge, ownership, membership, notoriety, or status. See also name-drop.
"The moderator would drop hints whenever the students struggled." - To kill, usually by gunshot, especially in reference to big game hunting; or, sometimes, to knock down; to render unconscious.
"Make any sudden movements and I will drop you!" - To fail to pronounce.
"Cockneys drop their h's." - To fail to respond to (an argument).
"The affirmative team dropped our arguments about the cost of the plan." - To swallow, as in ingesting a hallucinogen, particularly LSD.
"They had never dropped acid." - To impart.
"I drop knowledge wherever I go." - To release to the public.
"They dropped Hip-Hop Xmas in time for the holidays." - To enter public distribution.
"Hip-Hop Xmas dropped in time for the holidays."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is drop?
- Noun usage: Put three drops of oil into the mixture.
- Noun usage: On one side of the road was a 50-foot drop.
- Noun usage: That was a long drop, but fortunately I didn't break any bones.
- Noun usage: I left the plans at the drop, like you asked.
- Noun usage: The delivery driver has to make three more drops before lunch.
- Noun usage: He usually enjoys a drop after dinner.
- Noun usage: It doesn't matter where you're from; anyone who enjoys the drop is a friend of mine.
- Noun usage: Yet another drop for the Tiger tight end.
- Noun usage: The Tiger quarterback took a one-step drop, expecting his tight end to be open.
- Verb usage: A single shot was fired and the bird dropped from the sky.
- Verb usage: The stock dropped 1.5% yesterday.
- Verb usage: We can take our vacation when the price of fuel drops.
- Verb usage: Watch for the tempurature to drop sharply, then you'll know the reaction is complete.
- Verb usage: Drop and give me thirty push-ups, private!
- Verb usage: If your clothes are on fire, stop, drop and roll.
- Verb usage: Don't drop that plate!
- Verb usage: The police ordered the men to drop their weapons.
- Verb usage: I dropped ten pounds and an obnoxious fiance.
- Verb usage: I've been dropped from the football team.
- Verb usage: Drop me a note when you get to the city.
- Verb usage: I'm tired of this subject. Will you just drop it?
- Verb usage: The moderator would drop hints whenever the students struggled.
- Verb usage: Make any sudden movements and I will drop you!
- Verb usage: Cockneys drop their h's.
- Verb usage: The affirmative team dropped our arguments about the cost of the plan.
- Verb usage: They had never dropped acid.
- Verb usage: I drop knowledge wherever I go.
- Verb usage: Yo, I drop rhymes like nobody's business.
- Verb usage: They dropped Hip-Hop Xmas in time for the holidays.
- Verb usage: Hip-Hop Xmas dropped in time for the holidays.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of drop are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of drop, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
