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# drop

«drop» in Mova's school dictionary: **to let something fall from your hand; what you drop is…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (drop, drops, dropped, dropping); noun (a drop, drops)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To drop is to let something fall from your hand; what you drop is lost to you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drop/#m1)

2) To drop is to fall or go down: «The temperature dropped». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drop/#m2)

3) To drop someone off is to take them somewhere in a car and leave them there. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drop/#m3)

4) A drop is a very small amount of liquid, like a drop of rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drop/#m4)

5) A drop is a fall in an amount: «a drop in price». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drop/#m5)

6) To drop off means to fall asleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drop/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

to let things fall, so the one who drops them has fewer; a temperature or price that drops goes down; in science we count drops of water; phrases: «drop off», «drop out», «a drop of», «drop by», «drop it»

### examples

- Sam drops 5 balloons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drop/#x1)
- Mia had 12 eggs and dropped 3. How many eggs are not dropped? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drop/#x2)
- Ben dropped 4 of his 10 marbles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drop/#x3)
- The temperature dropped by 6 degrees overnight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drop/#x4)
- Dad drops us off at school at 8. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drop/#x5)
- Add two drops of food colouring to the water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drop/#x6)
- Big drops of rain hit the window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drop/#x7)
- Don't drop your ice cream! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drop/#x8)
- At last he dropped off to sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drop/#x9)

### note

Past: dropped (double p). «drops N» takes N away from the one who drops them. Trap: «the temperature drops» is a change in a measure, still subtract. Trap: «drop off» a person is not losing them.

### In the corpora

- [It can drop the sugar from a cookie recipe.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/6/)
- [Sharks smell blood well, but the story that they can smell one drop from miles away is exaggerated.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/8/)
- [Crows in Japan drop walnuts at traffic lights for cars to crack, and crows can remember a human face for years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/35-birds-of-every-kind/10/)
- [A gull drops a shellfish onto rocks from a height to smash the shell open.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water/11/)
- [Grapes and raisins can damage dogs' kidneys, so dropped grapes should be picked up at once.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/225-caring-for-a-pet-needs-dangers-and-responsibility/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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