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/drˈɑpɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Dropping n.

The action of causing to drop or of letting drop; falling.

pl. That which falls in drops; the excrement or dung of animals; often used in the plural.

Dropping bottle, an instrument used to supply small quantities of a fluid to a test tube or other vessel.

Dropping fire, a continued irregular discharge of firearms.

Dropping tube, a tube for ejecting any liquid in drops.

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Etymology of 'Dropping'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dropping" Quotes from Famous Books

... dropped to the ground, but it looked a long way, and directly below him was a pile of the lopped-off branches, with their sharp ends sticking up towards him like the spikes of cruel chevaux-de-frise, and he didn't fancy dropping on those. He shouted for help, but there was no one to hear him on the deserted farm, and the few farmers who rattled by in their wagons paid no heed to a boy's shout. Boys are always shouting, ...

— The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories • Various

... common faults of articulation are dropping an unaccented vowel, sounding incorrectly an unaccented vowel, suppressing final consonants, omitting or mispronouncing syllables, ...

— McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey

... of youth and gaiety, the sombre, student atmosphere became charged with a new, electric current. It was not owing solely to Miss Bentley, however, for Sunday evening now frequently found the Candy Man dropping in sociably to chat with ...

— The Little Red Chimney - Being the Love Story of a Candy Man • Mary Finley Leonard

... the boy had flung himself from his horse, dropping the reins to the ground, and the animal, although snorting and shivering, had no thought of disgracing his training by breaking his parole. With quick, ungainly strides the boy brought himself to the upturned machine. It was curious ...

— The Cow Puncher • Robert J. C. Stead

... winter in the old-established trenches along more settled parts of the front—there is plenty for the Comforts Fund to do there. Dropping into the best of quiet front trenches straight from his home life the ordinary man would consider himself as undergoing hardships undreamt of. Visiting those trenches straight from the Somme the other day, with their duck-boards and sandbags, and the occasional ...

— Letters from France • C. E. W. Bean

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