drop
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /dɹɒp/
美 /dɹɑp/|[dɹɑp]|[d͡ʒɹɑp]
英文释义
名词 n.
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A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own rounded shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
— Put three drops of oil into the mixture.
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A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own rounded shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.; A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1).
— My first treatment consisted of one eye drop in each eye which was supposed to determine the condition of the eye and make it easier to examine them the next day.
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A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own rounded shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.; A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1).
— ear drops eye drops
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A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.
— My aunt asked for just a drop more tea.
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A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.; A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
— He usually enjoys a drop after dinner. She won’t touch a drop while she’s on duty.
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A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.; Usually preceded by the: alcoholic spirits in general.
— It doesn’t matter where you’re from, anyone who enjoys the drop is a friend of mine.
- A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.; A single measure of whisky.
- That which hangs or resembles a liquid globule, such as a hanging diamond earring or ornament, a glass pendant on a chandelier, etc.; Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop or piece of licorice; a lozenge.
- That which hangs or resembles a liquid globule, such as a hanging diamond earring or ornament, a glass pendant on a chandelier, etc.; An ornament resembling a pendant; a gutta.
- A thing which drops or hangs down.; The cover mounted on a swivel over a keyhole that rests over the keyhole when not in use to keep out debris, but is swiveled out of the way before inserting the key.
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A thing which drops or hangs down.; A fruit which has fallen off a tree, etc., or has been knocked off accidentally, rather than picked.
— 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.
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A thing which drops or hangs down.; A dropped pass.
— Yet another drop for the Tiger tight end.
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A thing which drops or hangs down.; A trapdoor (“hinged platform”) on a gallows; a gallows itself.
— […] 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.
- A thing which drops or hangs down.; An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.
- A thing which drops or hangs down.; A mechanism for lowering something, such as a machine for lowering heavy weights on to a ship's deck, or a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet, etc.
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A thing which drops or hangs down.; An overhead electrical line running from a utility pole to a customer's building or other premises.
— Do a drop for the telephone gang, then another drop for the Internet gang, both through the ceiling of the wiring closet.
- A thing which drops or hangs down.; Ellipsis of drop hammer or drop press.
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A thing which drops or hangs down.; A curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; also, a section of (cloth) scenery lowered on to the stage like a curtain.
— 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[…]).
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An act or instance of dropping (in all senses).; An act of moving downwards under the force of gravity; a descent, a fall.
— That was a long drop, but fortunately I didn’t break any bones.
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An act or instance of dropping (in all senses).; An instance of making a delivery of people, supplies, or things, especially by parachute out of an aircraft (an airdrop), but also by truck, etc.
— The delivery driver has to make three more drops before lunch.
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An act or instance of dropping (in all senses).; A release (of music, a video game, etc).
— 2002 saw the drop of a new album whose title riffed on the many magazine cover stories calling Sum 41's music infectious.
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An act or instance of dropping (in all senses).; The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino.
— 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.
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An act or instance of dropping (in all senses).; Preceded by the: execution by hanging.
— [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.
- An act or instance of dropping (in all senses).; Usually preceded by the: relegation from one division to a lower one.
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An act or instance of dropping (in all senses).; Ellipsis of drop-back.
— The Tiger quarterback took a one-step drop, expecting his tight end to be open.
- An act or instance of dropping (in all senses).; Ellipsis of drop target.
- An act or instance of dropping (in all senses).; Ellipsis of drop kick.
- An act or instance of dropping (in all senses).; Ellipsis of drop shot.
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An act or instance of dropping (in all senses).; A near vertical descent down the face of a breaking wave.
— You take off, make the steep drop, hear the white water rumbling behind you and feel the spray on your back.
- An act or instance of dropping (in all senses).; An unsolicited credit card issue.
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A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.
— The drop in demand for oil resulted in a drop in prices.
- A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.; Of men's clothes: the difference between the chest circumference and waist circumference.
- A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.; Of women's clothes: the difference between the bust circumference and hip circumference.
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The distance through which something drops, or falls below a certain level.; The distance below a cliff or other high position through which someone or something could fall; hence, a steep slope.
— On one side of the road was a 50-foot drop.
- The distance through which something drops, or falls below a certain level.; The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
- The distance through which something drops, or falls below a certain level.; The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
- The distance through which something drops, or falls below a certain level.; The distance that a person drops when being executed by hanging.
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The distance through which something drops, or falls below a certain level.; The depth of a (square) sail (generally applied to the courses only); the vertical dimension of a sail.
— 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.
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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.
- Only used in get the drop on, have the drop on: an advantage.
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A 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).
- An automobile with a drop-top roof, a convertible.
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A 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.'
动词 v.
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Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets.
— The kindlye dewe drops from the higher tree, / And wets the little plants that lowly dwell.
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To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid.
— A single shot was fired and the bird dropped from the sky.
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To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid.; Of an item: To appear for the player to pick up, usually after an enemy has been defeated.
— When you defeat this boss, there's a chance a power-up will drop.
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To fall or sink quickly or suddenly to the ground.
— Drop and give me thirty push-ups, private!
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To collapse in exhaustion or injury; also, to fall dead, or to fall in death.
— Nothing, ſays Seneca, is ſo melancholy a circumſtance in human life, or ſo ſoon reconciles us to the thought of our own death, as the reflection and prospect of one friend after another dropping round us!
- To fall into a particular condition or state.
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To come to an end (by not being kept up); to lapse, to stop.
— When he again found privacy consistent, however—and it happened to be long in coming—he took up their conversation very much where it had dropped.
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To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.
— The stock dropped 1.5% yesterday.
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To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.; Of a song or sound: to lower in key, pitch, tempo, or other quality.
— My synthesizer makes the notes sound funny when they drop below C2.
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To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.; Of a voice: to lower in timbre, often due to puberty.
— Billy’s voice dropped suddenly when he turned 12.
- 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.
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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.
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Of a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution.
— The album Hip-Hop Xmas dropped in time for the holidays.
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To drop out of the betting.
— But more important, if I dropped, Marty would have won the hand automatically.
- Of the testicles: to hang further away from the body and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
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To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
— The heavens […] dropped at the presence of God.
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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.
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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.
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To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).; Of a defeated enemy or container: To leave behind an item that the player can collect.
— The monsters drop health pickups when killed.
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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.; To quickly lower or take down (one's trousers), especially in public.
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To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.; To cook (food, especially fast food), particularly by lowering into hot oil to deep-fry, or by grilling.
— Drop a basket of fries.
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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.
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Of an animal (usually a sheep): to give birth to (young); of a bird: to lay (an egg).
— to drop a lamb
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To mention (something) casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
— The lecturer would drop hints whenever the students struggled.
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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.
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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!
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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?
- To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.
- To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.; To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
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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?
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To dispose or get rid of (something); to lose, to remove.
— I dropped ten pounds and an obnoxious fiancée.
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To cease to include (something), as if on a list; to dismiss, to eject, to expel.
— I’ve been dropped from the football team.
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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.
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To 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.
- To pass or use (counterfeit cheques, money, etc.).
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To impart (something).
— I drop knowledge wherever I go.
- Especially in drop acid: to swallow (a drug, particularly LSD).
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To 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.
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To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.).
— Cockneys drop their aitches.
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To play (a portion of music) in the manner of a disc jockey.
— I love it when he drops his funky beats.
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To perform (rap music).
— Yo, I drop rhymes like nobody’s business.
- To (unexpectedly) lose (a competition, game, etc.).
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Of 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.
- To score (a goal) by means of a drop kick.
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To cover (something) with or as if with drops, especially of a different colour; to bedrop, to variegate.
— their waved coats dropped with gold
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To enter a more basic interface.
— Next, you drop to a shell.
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To present (the user) with a more basic interface.
— The next step drops the user to a recovery shell.
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To 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!
词形变化
词汇关系
衍生词
acid drop
acidulated drop
air-drop
antidrop
a quick drop and a sudden stop
artificial tear drop
a short drop and a sudden stop
at the drop of a hat
backdrop
ball drop
balloon drop
banner drop
bass drop
beechdrops
black drop
black drop effect
bomb drop
book drop
bottom drop
bun drop
cliffdrop
coal drop
cold drop
dead-drop
dead drop
desk drop
dew drop
dewdrop
doc drop
dom drop
donkey drop
drop at comb
drop attack
drop bar
drop-bear
drop bolt
drop box
drop-box
drop-by
drop cake
drop-cake
drop capital
drop ceiling
drop crotch
drop-crotch
drop-crotching
drop crotching
drop D
drop-drill
drop-eared
drop fade
drop fence
drop foot
drop-forged
drop forging
drop frame
dropful
drop-goal
drop grommet
drop gun
drop hammer
drop handlebar
drop in the bucket
drop in the ocean
drop in the pond
drop in the sea
dropkick
drop-knee
dropless
droplet
drop letter
drop light
droplight
droplike
dropline
droplist
drop-lock
drop lock
drop lot
dropmeal
drop neck
dropnet
dropometry
drop pass
drop pod
drop-proof
drop punt
drop-ripe
drop safe
drop-scene
drop seat
dropseed
drop serene
drop set
drop-set
drop shadow
drop-shaft
drop shaft
dropship
drop shipment
drop shoulder
dropside
dropsite
drop sleeve
dropsonde
drop-spine
dropstone
drop tank
droptop
drop top
drop tower
drop volley
drop waist
drop weapon
drop window
dropwing
dropwise
dropwisely
dropworm
dropwort
drop yard
drop zone
dropzone
ear drop
eardrop
eavedrop
eavesdrop
egg drop
egg drop syndrome
eucalyptus drop
eye-drop
eye drop
false drop
foot drop
French drop
fruit drop
get the drop on
gold drop
gravity drop
green drops
gumdrop
hair drop
hard drop
ice drop
jam drop
kneedrop
knee drop
knockout drop
leg drop
line drop
live drop
long drop
maildrop
measured drop
mic drop
microdrop
mint drop
multidrop
nanodrop
needle drop
non-drop
olio drop
one drop
one-drop
one-drop rule
outdrop
painted drop tongue
pan drop
pear drop
peppermint drop
pigeon drop
pinedrops
predrop
Prince Rupert drop
Prince Rupert's drop
pro-drop language
Q drop
raindrop
reverse one-drop rule
roll drop
rosedrop
rosy drop
Rupert's drop
service drop
short drop
shoulder drop
slut drop
snowdrop
spice drop
subdrop
summer branch drop
sundrops
sweatdrop
teardrop
thaw-drop
title drop
toe drop
top drop
troach drop
wait for the ball to drop
waterdrop
water drop
wrist drop
misdrop
chop and drop
could hear a pin drop
don't drop the soap
drag and drop
drag-and-drop
drag-drop
drop a bollock
drop a bomb
drop a bombshell
drop a brick
drop a chalupa
drop a clanger
drop-add form
drop a deuce
drop a dime
drop a dime on someone
drop a hint
drop a load
drop a log
drop anchor
drop a nickel
drop astern
drop away
drop-back
drop back
drop-ball
drop bear
drop behind
drop by
drop call
drop-call
drop cap
drop cloth
dropcloth
drop curtain
drop dead
drop-dead
drop dimes
drop-down
drop down
dropfile
drop goal
drophead
drophole
drop-in
drop in
drop into
dropitis
drop kerb
drop kick
drop-kick
drop-kicker
dropleaf
drop-leaf
drop-leaf table
droplifting
drop like a bad habit
drop like a hot brick
drop like a hot potato
drop like a hot skillet
drop like flies
dropoff
drop off
drop-off
drop off the hooks
drop off the radar
drop one's beads
drop one's bundle
drop one's guard
drop one's guts
drop out
drop-out
dropout
droppable
dropped ceiling
dropped egg
dropped goal
dropped head syndrome
dropped scone
dropper
dropping fire
droppingly
dropping point
droppings
drop round
drop scene
drop science
drop scone
drop ship
drop shot
drop someone a line
drop someone in it
drop the ball
drop the bomb
drop the F-bomb
drop the gloves
drop the hammer
drop the hand
drop the handkerchief
drop the H-bomb
drop the kiddies off at the pool
drop the kids off at the pool
drop the mic
drop the pilot
drop the soap
drop the subject
drop the topic
drop the writ
drop-tongue
drop trou
drop trow
jar-dropping
jaw-dropping
let the matter drop
make someone's jaw drop
name-drop
name-dropping
one can hear a pin drop
one could hear a pin drop
overdrop
pin-dropping
shadow drop
someone's jaw dropped
so quiet one can hear a pin drop
so quiet one could hear a pin drop
so quiet you can hear a pin drop
the penny drops
undropped
wait for the other shoe to drop
词源
词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *dropōn
Old English dropian
Middle English droppen
Proto-Indo-European *dʰrbʰ-néh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰrebʰ-
Proto-Germanic *dreupaną
Proto-Germanic *druppōną
Proto-Germanic *drupô
Proto-West Germanic *dropō
Old English dropa
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Middle English droppen
Middle English drope
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Middle English droppen
Middle English droppe
English drop
From Late Middle English droppe, Middle English drope (“small quantity of liquid; small or least amount of something; pendant jewel; dripping of a liquid; a shower; nasal flow, catarrh; speck, spot; blemish; disease causing spots on the skin”) [and other forms], from Old English dropa (“a drop”), from Proto-West Germanic *dropō (“drop (of liquid)”), from Proto-Germanic *drupô (“drop (of liquid)”),, from *dreupaną (“to drip, droop”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrebʰ- (“to drip, drop”).
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Droupe, Druppe (“drop”), Dutch drop, drup (“droplet”), German Tropfen (“drop”), German Low German Drüpp (“drop”), Luxembourgish Drëps (“drop”), Vilamovian tropa, troppa (“drop”), Yiddish טראָפּן (tropn, “drop”), Danish dråbe (“drop”), Faroese and Icelandic dropi (“drop”), Norwegian Bokmål dråpe (“drop”), Norwegian Nynorsk drope (“drop”), Swedish droppe (“drop”).
Proto-West Germanic *dropōn
Old English dropian
Middle English droppen
Proto-Indo-European *dʰrbʰ-néh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰrebʰ-
Proto-Germanic *dreupaną
Proto-Germanic *druppōną
Proto-Germanic *drupô
Proto-West Germanic *dropō
Old English dropa
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Middle English droppen
Middle English drope
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Middle English droppen
Middle English droppe
English drop
From Late Middle English droppe, Middle English drope (“small quantity of liquid; small or least amount of something; pendant jewel; dripping of a liquid; a shower; nasal flow, catarrh; speck, spot; blemish; disease causing spots on the skin”) [and other forms], from Old English dropa (“a drop”), from Proto-West Germanic *dropō (“drop (of liquid)”), from Proto-Germanic *drupô (“drop (of liquid)”),, from *dreupaną (“to drip, droop”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrebʰ- (“to drip, drop”).
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Droupe, Druppe (“drop”), Dutch drop, drup (“droplet”), German Tropfen (“drop”), German Low German Drüpp (“drop”), Luxembourgish Drëps (“drop”), Vilamovian tropa, troppa (“drop”), Yiddish טראָפּן (tropn, “drop”), Danish dråbe (“drop”), Faroese and Icelandic dropi (“drop”), Norwegian Bokmål dråpe (“drop”), Norwegian Nynorsk drope (“drop”), Swedish droppe (“drop”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *dropōn
Old English dropian
Middle English droppen
English drop
From Middle English droppen, dropen (“to fall in drops, drip or trickle down; to scatter, sprinkle; to be covered with a liquid; to give off moisture; of an object: to drop, fall; of a living being: to fall to the ground”) [and other forms], from Old English droppian, dropian (“to drop”), from Proto-West Germanic *dropōn, from Proto-Germanic *drupōną (“to fall in drops, drip”), ultimately from *dreupaną (“to hang, droop; drop, drip”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrebʰ- (“to drip, drop”).
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian drippe (“to drip”), Dutch druipen (“to drip”), German triefen (“to drip”), Yiddish טריפֿן (trifn, “to drip”), Icelandic drjúpa (“to drip”), Norwegian Nynorsk drjupa, drypa, drype (“to drip”), Swedish drypa (“to drip”).
Proto-West Germanic *dropōn
Old English dropian
Middle English droppen
English drop
From Middle English droppen, dropen (“to fall in drops, drip or trickle down; to scatter, sprinkle; to be covered with a liquid; to give off moisture; of an object: to drop, fall; of a living being: to fall to the ground”) [and other forms], from Old English droppian, dropian (“to drop”), from Proto-West Germanic *dropōn, from Proto-Germanic *drupōną (“to fall in drops, drip”), ultimately from *dreupaną (“to hang, droop; drop, drip”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrebʰ- (“to drip, drop”).
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian drippe (“to drip”), Dutch druipen (“to drip”), German triefen (“to drip”), Yiddish טריפֿן (trifn, “to drip”), Icelandic drjúpa (“to drip”), Norwegian Nynorsk drjupa, drypa, drype (“to drip”), Swedish drypa (“to drip”).
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