Drop
[drɒp] or [drɑp]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of dropping something; 'they expected the drop would be successful'.
(noun.) a central depository where things can be left or picked up.
(noun.) a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity; 'a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index'; 'there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery'; 'a dip in prices'; 'when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall'.
(noun.) a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity; 'it was a miracle that he survived the drop from that height'.
(noun.) a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property).
(noun.) a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid); 'he had a drop too much to drink'; 'a drop of each sample was analyzed'; 'there is not a drop of pity in that man'; 'years afterward, they would pay the blood-money, driblet by driblet'--Kipling.
(noun.) a shape that is spherical and small; 'he studied the shapes of low-viscosity drops'; 'beads of sweat on his forehead'.
(verb.) give birth; used for animals; 'The cow dropped her calf this morning'.
(verb.) fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death; 'shop til you drop'.
(verb.) stop pursuing or acting; 'drop a lawsuit'; 'knock it off!'.
(verb.) go down in value; 'Stock prices dropped'.
(verb.) change from one level to another; 'She dropped into army jargon'.
(verb.) omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing; ' New Englanders drop their post-vocalic r's'.
(verb.) utter with seeming casualness; 'drop a hint'; drop names'.
(verb.) lose (a game); 'The Giants dropped 11 of their first 13'.
(verb.) take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth; 'She dropped acid when she was a teenager'.
(verb.) leave or unload; 'unload the cargo'; 'drop off the passengers at the hotel'.
(verb.) to fall vertically; 'the bombs are dropping on enemy targets'.
(verb.) let fall to the ground; 'Don't drop the dishes'.
(verb.) terminate an association with; 'drop him from the Republican ticket'.
校對:米利森特--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
塞西尔手打
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Globule.[2]. Ear-ring.
v. a. [1]. Lower, sink, depress, let down, let fall, let go.[2]. Leave, quit, forsake, desert, relinquish, abandon, forswear, give up, give over.[3]. Discontinue, intermit, remit, cease, desist from, break off, leave off, lay aside.[4]. Bedrop, spot, speckle, variegate.
v. n. [1]. Distil, fall in drops.[2]. Fall suddenly.[3]. Cease, come to an end, come to nothing.
哈伦校對
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Ooze, emanate, distil, percolate, fall, decline, descend, faint, droop
ANT:Evaporate, rally, rise, soar, ascend, recover
巴纳德編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Having, then, taken my drop (bless you! 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Let's drop the war. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- But I will drop it in that gorge like a broken bird cage. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The other party, and a surgeon, I suppose,' said Mr. Snodgrass; 'take a drop of brandy. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- So, the Spider, doggedly watching Estella, outwatched many brighter insects, and would often uncoil himself and drop at the right nick of time. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- She pursued her embroidery carefully and quickly, but her eyelash twinkled, and then it glittered, and then a drop fell. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Some of the office employees would also drop in once in a while, and as everybody present was always welcome to partake of the midnight meal, we all enjoyed these gatherings. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I was attending a little patient in the college near, said he, and saw it dropped out of his chamber window, and so came to pick it up. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Her head dropped on the cushions; and she burst out crying. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Throw them down, he said, and she dropped them. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- In my haste I thrust the key into my pocket, and dropped my stick while I was chasing Teddy, who had run up the curtain. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- He dropped the curtains over the broad window and regal moon. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Ada only dropped her head and pressed me closer to her heart. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- With these words, the matron dropped into her chair, and, once more resting her elbow on the table, thought of her solitary fate. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- But, she had scarcely thought more of separating them into units, than of separating the sea itself into its component drops. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Mr. Bhaer saw the drops on her cheeks, though she turned her head away. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Lily took no sleeping-drops that night. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- A large curved retort was boiling furiously in the bluish flame of a Bunsen burner, and the distilled drops were condensing into a two-litre measure. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- When it arrives at the lower end, the material has been burned, and the clinker drops out into a receiving chamber below. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I shall close this book, and take my full dose--five hundred drops. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Here is a weekly allowance, with a certain weight of coals, drops from the clouds upon me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He made that brief reply warmly, dropping his hand on the table while he spoke, and turning towards us again. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Well, then, he said, I yield; if not to your earnestness, to your perseverance: as stone is worn by continual dropping. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Talking of mysteries, by-the-bye, says Mr. Franklin, dropping his voice, I have another word to say to you before you go to the stables. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Suppose the thief had got away by dropping from one of the upper windows, how had he escaped the dogs? 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- She paused, and went on, dropping her glance from Lily's: He wouldn't stay with her ten minutes if he KNEW---- Knew----? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- It was spacious, and I dare say had once been handsome, but every discernible thing in it was covered with dust and mould, and dropping to pieces. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- A task too strong for wizard spells This squire had brought about; 'T is easy dropping stones in wells, But who shall get them out? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
整理:华莱士