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# dropper

«dropper» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small tube, usually glass or plastic, with a rubber…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a dropper, droppers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A small tube, usually glass or plastic, with a rubber bulb at the top, used to take up a liquid and let it out drop by drop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dropper/#m1)

2) (informal) Someone who drops something, as in a name-dropper (someone who boasts about famous people they know). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dropper/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, a dropper (or pipette) adds small amounts of liquid in experiments; in health, medicine or eye drops come with a dropper; phrases: «a dropper bottle», «eye dropper», «name-dropper».

### examples

- Use the dropper to add three drops of food colouring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dropper/#x1)
- The nurse gave the baby medicine with a dropper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dropper/#x2)
- We put iodine on the potato with a dropper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dropper/#x3)
- Squeeze the bulb gently, or the dropper will squirt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dropper/#x4)
- Eye drops come in a little dropper bottle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dropper/#x5)
- Count each drop from the dropper carefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dropper/#x6)

### note

Countable. In science, a «pipette» is a more exact tool; in maths and science, if each drop is 0.05 ml, then 20 drops make 1 ml.

### Trees and pragmatics

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