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# airdrop

«airdrop» in Mova's school dictionary: **sending food, medicine or other supplies by dropping them…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an airdrop, airdrops); verb (airdrop, airdrops, airdropped, airdropping)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An airdrop is sending food, medicine or other supplies by dropping them from an aircraft, often by parachute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/airdrop/#m1)

2) To airdrop something is to drop it from a plane to people on the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/airdrop/#m2)

3) (computers, AirDrop) AirDrop is an Apple feature for sending photos or files to a nearby device; people say «airdrop it to me». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/airdrop/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used in news about disasters and wars (aid airdropped to people cut off), in history (the Berlin airlift), in video games, and in everyday tech talk.

### examples

- The army made an airdrop of food to the flooded villages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/airdrop/#x1)
- Medicine was airdropped to the cut-off town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/airdrop/#x2)
- Parachutes slowed the boxes in the airdrop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/airdrop/#x3)
- In the game, an airdrop brings new supplies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/airdrop/#x4)
- Can you airdrop me that photo? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/airdrop/#x5)
- Airdrops can help when roads are blocked by snow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/airdrop/#x6)

### note

Double «p» in «airdropped», «airdropping». As the Apple brand it is written «AirDrop». Safety: only accept AirDrop files from people you know.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «airdrop» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/airdrop/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.