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dropping
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dr?p??ng, IPA(key): /?d??p??/
- (General American) enPR: dr?p??ng, IPA(key): /?d??p??/
- Rhymes: -?p??
- Hyphenation: drop?ping
Verb
dropping
- present participle of drop
Noun
dropping (plural droppings)
- Something dropped. [14th C.]
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (usually in the plural) A piece of animal excrement; dung. [late 16th C.]
- a rabbit dropping
- The act of something that drops or falls.
Translations
See also
- spoor
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plummet
English
Etymology
From Middle English plommet (“ball of lead", "plumb of a bob-line”), recorded since 1382, from Old French plommet or plomet, the diminutive of plom, plum (“lead", "sounding lead”), from Latin plumbum (“lead”). The verb is first recorded in 1626, originally meaning “to fathom, take soundings", from the noun.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pl?m.?t/
- Rhymes: -?m?t
Noun
plummet (plural plummets)
- (archaic) A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water, a plumb bob or a plumb line
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 3 scene 3
- I'll sink him deeper than e'er plummet sounded.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 3 scene 3
- (archaic) Hence, any weight
- 1945, Ernie Pyle, Here is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe, The World Publishing Company (1945), page #93:
- His parachute was shot half away, and if he'd jumped he would have fallen like a plummet.
- 1945, Ernie Pyle, Here is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe, The World Publishing Company (1945), page #93:
- (archaic) A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing (that is, to mark with rules, with lines)
- A plummet line, a line with a plummet; a sounding line
- Violent or dramatic fall
- (figuratively) A decline; a fall; a drop
Translations
Verb
plummet (third-person singular simple present plummets, present participle plummeting or plummetting, simple past and past participle plummeted or plummetted)
- (intransitive) To drop swiftly, in a direct manner; to fall quickly.
- After its ascent, the arrow plummeted to earth.
Synonyms
- (to drop swiftly): dive, drop, fall
Antonyms
- (to drop swiftly): ascend, rise, rocket, soar, skyrocket
Translations
See also
- plumb line
- plumb
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “plummet”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
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