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English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dr?p, IPA^(key): /d??p/
• (General American) enPR: dr?p, IPA^(key): /d??p/, [d????p]
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Late Middle English droppe, Middle English drope (“small quantity of liquid; small or least amount of something; pendant jewel; dripping of a liquid; a shower; nasal flow, catarrh; speck, spot; blemish; disease causing spots on the skin”) [and other forms], from Old English dropa (“a drop”), from Proto-West Germanic *drop? (“drop (of liquid)”), from Proto-Germanic *drupô (“drop (of liquid)”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?rewb- (“to crumble, grind”).

Noun

drop (plural drops)

1. (also figuratively) A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
   1. (pharmacology) A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1).
   2. (pharmacology, chiefly in the plural) A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1).

2. (figuratively) A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.
   1. (chiefly Australia, Britain) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.

   2. (chiefly Britain) Usually preceded by the: alcoholic spirits in general.
   3. (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
3. That which hangs or resembles a liquid globule, such as a hanging diamond earring or ornament, a glass pendant on a chandelier, etc.
   1. Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop; a lozenge.
   2. (architecture) An ornament resembling a pendant; a gutta.
4. A thing which drops or hangs down.
   1. The cover mounted on a swivel over a keyhole that rests over the keyhole when not in use to keep out debris, but is swiveled out of the way before inserting the key.
   2. (agriculture) A fruit which has fallen off a tree, etc., or has been knocked off accidentally, rather than picked.
   3. (American football) A dropped pass.

   4. (law enforcement) A trapdoor (“hinged platform”) on a gallows; a gallows itself.
   5. (online gaming, video games) An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.
   6. (technology)
      1. A mechanism for lowering something, such as a machine for lowering heavy weights on to a ship's deck, or a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet, etc.
      2. Short for drop hammer and drop press.
   7. (theater) A curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; also, a section of (cloth) scenery lowered on to the stage like a curtain.
5. An act or instance of dropping (in all senses).
   1. An act of moving downwards under the force of gravity; a descent, a fall.
   2. An instance of making a delivery of people, supplies, or things, especially by parachute out of an aircraft (an airdrop), but also by truck, etc.

   3. A release (of music, a video game, etc).
   4. (gambling) The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino.
   5. (law enforcement, informal) Preceded by the: execution by hanging.
   6. (sports)
      1. Usually preceded by the: relegation from one division to a lower one.
      2. (American football) Short for drop-back.

      3. (pinball) Short for drop target.
      4. (rugby) Short for drop kick.
   7. (US, banking, dated) An unsolicited credit card issue.
6. A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.
   1. (sewing)
      1. Of men's clothes: the difference between the chest circumference and waist circumference.
      2. Of women's clothes: the difference between the bust circumference and hip circumference.
7. The distance through which something drops, or falls below a certain level.
   1. The distance below a cliff or other high position through which someone or something could fall; hence, a steep slope.
   2. The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
   3. (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
   4. (law enforcement) The distance that a person drops when being executed by hanging.
   5. (nautical) The depth of a (square) sail (generally applied to the courses only); the vertical dimension of a sail.

      (Can we find and add a quotation of Ham. Nav. Encyc to this entry?)

8. A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, whether openly (as with a mail drop), or secretly or illegally (as in crime or espionage); a drop-off point.

9. Only used in get the drop on and have the drop on: an advantage.
10. (music) A point in a song, usually electronic music such as dubstep, house, trace, or trap, where there is a very noticeable and pleasing change in bass, tempo, and/or overall tone; a climax, a highlight.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English droppen, dropen (“to fall in drops, drip or trickle down; to scatter, sprinkle; to be covered with a liquid; to give off moisture; of an object: to drop, fall; of a living being: to fall to the ground”) [and other forms], from Old English dropian, droppian (“to drop”), from dropa (“a drop”) (see further at etymology 1) + -ian (suffix forming verbs from adjectives and nouns).

Verb

drop (third-person singular simple present drops, present participle dropping, simple past and past participle dropped or (archaic) dropt)

1. (intransitive) Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets. [from 11th c.]
2. (intransitive, also figuratively) To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid. [from 14th c.]

3. (intransitive) To fall or sink quickly or suddenly to the ground. [from 15th c.]

4. (intransitive) To collapse in exhaustion or injury; also, to fall dead, or to fall in death.
5. (intransitive) To fall into a particular condition or state.
6. (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to lapse, to stop. [from 17th c.]
7. (intransitive) To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc. [from 18th c.]
   1. (intransitive) Of a song or sound: to lower in key, pitch, tempo, or other quality.

   2. (intransitive) Of a voice: to lower in timbre, often due to puberty.
8. (intransitive) To fall behind or to the rear of a group of people, etc., as a result of not keeping up with those at the front.
9. (intransitive) Usually followed by by, in, or into: of a person: to visit someone or somewhere informally or without a prior appointment.
10. (intransitive, computing, music, television, colloquial) Of a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution.

11. (intransitive, gambling) To drop out of the betting.
    • 1990, Stewart Wolpin, The Rules of Neighborhood Poker According to Hoyle (page 219)

      But more important, if I dropped, Marty would have won the hand automatically.

12. (intransitive, physiology, informal) Of the testicles: to hang further away from the body and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
13. (intransitive, obsolete) To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
    • 1611 King James Bible, Psalms 68:8

      The heavens […] dropped at the presence of God.

14. (transitive) To drip (a liquid) in drops or small amounts. [from 14th c.]
    • 1759-1767, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

      The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.

    • 1860, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

      persons, dropping sweat-drops or blood-drops

15. (transitive, ergative, also figuratively) To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on). [from 14th c.]

16. (transitive) To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.
    1. To quickly lower or take down (one's trousers), especially in public.
    2. (cooking) To cook (food, especially fast food), particularly by lowering into hot oil to deep-fry, or by grilling.

17. (transitive) Of an animal (usually a sheep): to give birth to (young); of a bird: to lay (an egg).

18. (transitive) To mention (something) casually or incidentally, usually in conversation. [from 17th c.]

19. (transitive) To let (a letter, etc.) fall into a postbox; hence, to send (a letter, email, or other message) in an offhand manner. [from 18th c.]

20. (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot, etc.; to bring down, to shoot down. [from 18th c.]
    • 1846, ed. by G. W. Nickisson, “Elephant-Shooting in Ceylon”, in Fraser's Magazine, vol. XXXIII, no. CXCVII

      page 562: ...if the first shot does not drop him, and he rushes on, the second will be a very hurried and most likely ineffectual one...

      page 568 ...with a single shot he dropped him like a master of the art.

    • 1892, Alexander A. A. Kinloch, Large Game Shooting in Thibet, the Himalayas, Northern and Central India, page 126

      As with all other animals, a shot behind the shoulder is the most likely to drop the beast on the spot […]

    • 1921, Daniel Henderson, Boone of the Wilderness, page 54

      He dropped the beast with a bullet in its heart.

    • 1985, Beastie Boys, Paul Revere:

      The piano player's out, the music stopped / His boy had beef, and he got dropped...

    • 1992, Dan Parkinson, Dust on the Wind, page 164

      With a quick clench of the fist on Joey's throat, Bodie dropped him. The man crumpled to the ground […]

21. (transitive) To set down (someone or something) from a vehicle; to stop and deliver or deposit (someone or something); to drop off.

22. (transitive) To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.
    1. (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
23. (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over (someone or something); to have nothing more to do with (a discussion, subject, etc.). [from 17th c.]
    • 1815, Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering; Or, The Astrologer

      The connection had been dropped many years.

    • 1859, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century

      that astonishing ease with which fine ladies drop you and pick you up again

24. (transitive) To dispose or get rid of (something); to lose, to remove.

25. (transitive) To cease to include (something), as if on a list; to dismiss, to eject, to expel.
    • 2019, Louise Taylor, Alex Morgan heads USA past England into Women’s World Cup final (in The Guardian, 2 July 2019)[6]

      If Carly Telford’s replacement of Karen Bardsley, because of a hamstring injury, was enforced, the switch to 4-4-1-1 was not. This new-look configuration saw Rachel Daly deployed in front of Lucy Bronze down the right, Toni Duggan and Fran Kirby dropped, Beth Mead introduced on the left and Nikita Parris moved up front.

26. (transitive) To cancel or cease to participate in (a scheduled course, event, or project).

27. (transitive, slang)
    1. To lose, spend, or otherwise part with (money). [from 17th c.]
       • 1949, The Atlantian, v 8, Atlanta: United States Penitentiary, p 41:

         The question was: Who put the most in the collection box? The wealthy guy, who dropped a “C” note, or the tattered old dame who parted with her last tarnished penny.

       • 2000, Lisa Reardon, Blameless: A Novel, Random House, p 221:

         I forked over the $19.25. I was in no position to be dropping twenties like gumdrops but I deserved something good from this crappy morning.

    2. To pass or use (counterfeit cheques, money, etc.).
    3. To impart (something).

    4. Especially in drop acid: to swallow (a drug, particularly LSD). [from 20th c.]
28. (transitive, computing, music, television, colloquial) To release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public.

29. (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.). [from 19th c.]

30. (transitive, music)
    1. To play (a portion of music) in the manner of a disc jockey.

    2. To perform (rap music).

31. (transitive, sports)
    1. (originally US) To (unexpectedly) lose (a competition, game, etc.).
    2. (cricket) Of a fielder: to fail to dismiss (a batsman) by accidentally dropping a batted ball that had initially been caught.

    3. (rugby) To score (a goal) by means of a drop kick.
32. (transitive, archaic) To cover (something) with or as if with drops, especially of a different colour; to bedrop, to variegate.
    • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost

      their waved coats dropped with gold

Conjugation

Derived terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• drop on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Prod, Prod., dorp, prod

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /drop/
• Rhymes: -op
• Homophone: drob

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *drop?ty, which is a compound, whose first part is probably from Proto-Indo-European *dreh?- (“run”) and the other from Proto-Slavic *p?ta (“bird”), which is probably based on Proto-Indo-European *put- (“a young, a child, a little animal”).

Noun

drop m

1. bustard

Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English drop (“act of dropping”).

Noun

drop m

1. (golf) dropping a new ball from hand from shoulder height and arm's length, if the original ball was lost.

Declension

References

Further reading

• drop in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• drop in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch drope (“drop”), from Old Dutch dropo, from Proto-Germanic *drupô. The sense “licorice” developed from the sense “drop of licorice extract”; compare also English lemon drop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dr?p/
• Hyphenation: drop
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

drop f (plural droppen, diminutive dropje n)

1. droplet

Synonyms

• drup
• druppel

Noun

drop f or n (uncountable, diminutive dropje n)

1. licorice, especially a variety sold as small sweets/candies.

Derived terms

• dropje
• droplul
• dropveter
• Engelse drop
• honingdrop
• salmiakdrop

Anagrams

• dorp

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English drop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??p/

Noun

drop m (plural drops)

1. (rugby) drop goal

Further reading

• “drop” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *drop?ty, whose first part is probably from Proto-Indo-European *dreh?- (“run”) and the other from Proto-Slavic *p?ta (“bird”), which is probably based on Proto-Indo-European *put- (“a young, a child, a little animal”).

Compare Czech drop and Russian ????? (drofa). Cognate with German Trappe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dr?p/

Noun

drop m anim

1. bustard; a bird belonging to the family Otididae, especially the great bustard (Otis tarda) or any member of the genus Ardeotis

Declension

Further reading

• drop in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• drop in Polish dictionaries at PWN

References

English

Etymology 1

Verb from Middle English fallen, from Old English feallan (“to fall, fail, decay, die, attack”), from Proto-West Germanic *fallan (“to fall”), from Proto-Germanic *fallan? (“to fall”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)p?l-.

Cognate with West Frisian falle (“to fall”), Low German fallen (“to fall”), Dutch vallen (“to fall”), German fallen (“to fall”), Norwegian Bokmål falle (“to fall”), Norwegian Nynorsk falla (“to fall”), Icelandic falla (“to fall”), Albanian fal (“forgive, pray, salute, greet”), Lithuanian pùlti (“to attack, rush”).

Noun from Middle English fal, fall, falle, from Old English feall, ?efeall (“a falling, fall”), from Proto-Germanic *fall?, *fallaz (“a fall, trap”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)p?l-. Cognate with Dutch val, German Fall, Swedish fall, Icelandic fall.

Sense of "autumn" is by 1660s England as a shortening of Middle English fall of the leaf (1540s), from the falling of leaves during this season. Along with autumn, it mostly replaced the older name harvest as that name began to be associated strictly with the act of harvesting. Compare spring, which began as a shortening of “spring of the leaf”.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: fôl, IPA^(key): /f??l/
• (General American) enPR: fôl, IPA^(key): /f?l/
• (cot–caught merger) enPR: fäl, IPA^(key): /f?l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Verb

fall (third-person singular simple present falls, present participle falling, simple past fell or (in archaic sense only) felled, past participle fallen or (in archaic sense only) felled)

1. (heading, intransitive) To be moved downwards.
   1. To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.

      • There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

   2. To come down, to drop or descend.
      • 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, Bulldog Drummond, Ch.1:

        Her eyes fell on the table, and she advanced into the room wiping her hands on her apron.

   3. To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.

   4. To be brought to the ground.
2. (transitive) To move downwards.
   1. (obsolete) To let fall; to drop.
   2. (obsolete) To sink; to depress.

   3. (Britain, US, dialect, archaic) To fell; to cut down.

3. (intransitive) To happen, to change negatively.
   1. (copulative, in idiomatic expressions) To become.

      • At length they stood at the corner from which they had begun, and it had fallen quite dark, and they were no wiser.

   3. To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); said of an instance of a recurring event such as a holiday or date.

   4. (intransitive) To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.

   5. (intransitive, formal, euphemistic) To die, especially in battle or by disease.

   6. (intransitive) To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).
      • 1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued

        The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished.

      • 1835, Sir John Ross, Sir James Clark Ross, Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Vol.1, pp.284-5:

        Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.
4. (intransitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower.

   • Upon lessening interest to four per cent, you fall the price of your native commodities.

6. (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth.
7. (intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

8. (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.

   • Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

9. (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.

10. (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.

    • Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

    • I have observed of late thy looks are fallen.

11. (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).

    • Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall.

    • 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I Scene 2

      […] An the worst fall that ever fell, I hope I shall make shift to go without him.

    • 1879, Herbert Spenser, Principles of Sociology Volume II – Part IV: Ceremonial Institutions

      Primitive men […] do not make laws, they fall into customs.

12. (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
    • 1881, Benjamin Jowett (Thucydides)

      They now no longer doubted, but fell to work heart and soul.

13. (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.

14. (intransitive, of a fabric) To hang down (under the influence of gravity).

Quotations

• c. 1591, William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of King Richard the third, Andrew Wi?e (publisher, 1598 — second quarto), Act V, Scene 3:

  Ghoa?t [of Clarence]. […] / To morrow in the battaile thinke on me, / And fall thy edgele??e ?word, di?paire and die.

Synonyms

• (move to a lower position under the effect of gravity): drop, plummet, plunge
• (come down): come down, descend, drop
• (come to the ground deliberately): drop, lower oneself, prostrate oneself
• (be brought to the ground):
• (collapse; be overthrown or defeated): be beaten by, be defeated by, be overthrown by, be smitten by, be vanquished by,
• (die): die
• (be allotted to): be the responsibility of, be up to
• (become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc)): dip, drop
• (become): become, get
• (cause (something) to descend to the ground): cut down (of a tree), fell, knock down, knock over, strike down

Antonyms

• (come down): ascend, go up, rise
• (come to the ground deliberately): get up, pick oneself up, stand up
• (collapse; be overthrown or defeated): beat, defeat, overthrow, smite, vanquish
• (become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc)): rise

Coordinate terms

• topple
• tumble

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

fall (countable and uncountable, plural falls)

1. The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
2. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.

   • “I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.

3. (chiefly Canada, US, archaic in Britain) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the trees; autumn; the season of the year between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice. [from 16th c.]
4. A loss of greatness or status.

5. That which falls or cascades.
6. (sports) A crucial event or circumstance.
   1. (cricket, of a wicket) The action of a batsman being out.
   2. (curling) A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.
   3. (wrestling) An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.
7. A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.
8. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.

9. The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).

10. An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
11. A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.
12. The lid, on a piano, that covers the keyboard

Synonyms

• (act of moving to a lower position): descent, drop
• (reduction): decrease, dip, drop, lowering, reduction
• (season): autumn, (UK dialect) harvest, (UK dialect) back end
• (loss of greatness or status): downfall
• (blame; punishment): rap

Antonyms

• (act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity): ascent, rise
• (reduction): increase, rise
• (loss of greatness or status): ascent, rise

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• falls

Etymology 2

Perhaps from the north-eastern Scottish pronunciation of whale.

Interjection

fall

1. (nautical) The cry given when a whale is sighted, or harpooned.

Noun

fall (plural falls)

1. (nautical) The chasing of a hunted whale.

Derived terms

• loose fall

Albanian

Etymology

From Turkish fal, from Arabic ?????? (fa?l, “omen”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa?/

Noun

fall m (indefinite plural falle, definite singular falli, definite plural fallet)

1. fortune telling

Declension

Derived terms

References

Breton

Adjective

fall

1. bad

Catalan

Etymology

From fallir.

Noun

fall m (plural falls)

1. cliff

Related terms

• falla

Further reading

• “fall” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse fall, from falla (“to fall”). The grammatical sense is a calque of Latin casus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fatl/

Noun

fall n (genitive singular fals, plural føll)

1. fall, drop
2. case (linguistics)

Declension

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fal/
• Rhymes: -al

Verb

fall

1. singular imperative of fallen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of fallen

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse fall, from falla (“to fall”). The grammatical sense is a calque of Latin casus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fatl/
• Rhymes: -atl

Noun

fall n (genitive singular falls, nominative plural föll)

1. fall, drop
2. (grammar) case
3. (computing, programming) function; (subprogram, usually with formal parameters, returning a data value when called)
4. indefinite accusative singular of fall

Declension

Synonyms

• (function): fallstefja

Derived terms

See also

• falla (verb)

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

fall n (definite singular fallet, indefinite plural fall, definite plural falla or fallene)

1. a fall
2. case

   i fall - in case

   i alle fall - in any case

Derived terms

Related terms

• falle (verb)

Verb

fall

1. imperative of falle

References

• “fall” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?l?/

Noun

fall n (definite singular fallet, indefinite plural fall, definite plural falla)

1. a fall
2. case

Derived terms

Verb

fall

1. past tense of falle
2. imperative of falle

References

• “fall” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse fall, from falla (“to fall”). The grammatical sense is a calque of Latin casus.

Pronunciation

Noun

fall n

1. a fall (the act of falling)
2. a fall, loss of greatness or wealth, a bankruptcy
3. a slope, a waterfall, the height of a slope or waterfall

4. a (legal) case

Declension

Related terms

Verb

fall

1. imperative of falla.

References

• fall in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)