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say it: drahp
drop is a verb and noun meaning "let fall to the ground". It carries 32 recorded senses.
fall or descend to a lower place or level
“He sank to his knees”
stop pursuing or acting
“drop a lawsuit”
“knock it off!”
stop associating with
“They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock”
omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing
“New Englanders drop their post-vocalic r's”
grow worse
“Her condition deteriorated”
“Conditions in the slums degenerated”
“The discussion devolved into a shouting match”
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”
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”
a steep high face of rock
“he stood on a high cliff overlooking the town”
“a steep drop”
a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property)
drug
a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
“it was a miracle that he survived the drop from that height”
a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery
a central depository where things can be left or picked up
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for drop come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.