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You're listening to Joanna
She has an American accent.
NGSL Rank: 639
drop
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Meanings
verb
- let or make (something) fall vertically.E.g. the fire was caused by someone dropping a lighted cigarette
- fall vertically.E.g. the spoon dropped with a clatter from her hand
- make or become lower, weaker, or less.E.g. he dropped his voice as she came into the room
- abandon or discontinue (a course of action or study).E.g. the charges against him were dropped last year
- set down or unload (a passenger or goods), especially on the way to somewhere else.E.g. his mum dropped him outside and drove off to work
- (in sport) fail to win (a point or a match).E.g. the club have yet to drop a point in the Second Division
- be forced to play (a relatively high card) as a loser under an opponent's higher card, because it is the only card in its suit held in the hand.E.g. East drops the 10 on the second round
noun
- a small round or pear-shaped portion of liquid that hangs or falls or adheres to a surface.E.g. the first drops of rain splashed on the ground
- an instance of falling or dropping.E.g. they left within five minutes of the drop of the curtain
- a delivery.E.g. I got to the depot and made the drop
- a small, round sweet or lozenge.E.g. a chocolate drop
- an earring that hangs down from the earlobe.E.g. simple amethyst and diamond drops
- a section of theatrical scenery lowered from the flies; a drop cloth or drop curtain.
- a trapdoor on a gallows, the opening of which causes the prisoner to fall and thus be hanged.E.g. warders, standing on planks, invariably flanked the prisoners on the drop
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