The Meaning of drop

• (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.

Synonyms

bead , pearl , drib , driblet , dip , fall , free fall , cliff , drop-off , fall , drop curtain , drop cloth , sink , drop down , knock off , drop off , set down , put down , unload , discharge , fell , strike down , cut down , spend , expend , flatten , dangle , swing , dismiss , send packing , send away , dribble , drip , shed , cast , cast off , shake off , throw , throw off , throw away , neglect , pretermit , omit , miss , leave out , overlook , overleap , devolve , deteriorate , degenerate

Antonyms

sharpen , attend to , recuperate

Rhymes

aesop , agitprop , atop , backdrop , backstop , barbershop , bebop , bellhop , blacktop , bookshop , bop , bopp , chop , chopp , co-op , cop , copp , countertop , crop , cropp , desktop , dopp , dunlop , eavesdrop , eyedrop , flop , fop , glop , hilltop , hop , hopeh , hopp , hoppe , jopp , kaup , kaupp , klopp , knaup , knop , knopp , kopp , koppe , kropp , laptop , lollipop , lop , malaprop , mop , mountaintop , nonstop , op , opp , paap , paape , paup , pawnshop , plop , pop , popp , poppe , prop , propp , raindrop , raup , raupp , rooftop , schaap , schopp , schoppe , schropp , sharecrop , shop , shoppe , shortstop , skop , slop , sop , staup , stop , strop , swap , swapp , sweatshop , tabletop , taupe , top , topp , treetop , tropp , tschopp , turboprop , wop , workshop , yopp