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# dropping

«dropping» in Mova's school dictionary: **letting something fall, or falling** — 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 (present participle of drop: drop, drops, dropped, dropping); noun (droppings — usually plural)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Dropping means letting something fall, or falling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dropping/#m1)

2) Dropping means becoming lower or less, like dropping temperatures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dropping/#m2)

3) Droppings are the poo of animals and birds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dropping/#m3)

4) Dropping someone off means taking them somewhere in a car and leaving them there. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dropping/#m4)

5) To drop a curtsey means to bend the knees and lower the body as a polite greeting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dropping/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life «dropping off» is about getting to school; in science temperatures and prices drop. In safety and hygiene lessons, animal droppings carry germs, so you don't touch them and wash your hands. Phrases: «dropping off», «dropping out», «bird droppings», «dropping like flies».

### examples

- Stop dropping crumbs on the floor! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dropping/#x1)
- The temperature is dropping fast tonight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dropping/#x2)
- Dad is dropping me off at school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dropping/#x3)
- There were bird droppings on the car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dropping/#x4)
- Mouse droppings show there are mice in the house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dropping/#x5)
- He kept dropping the ball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dropping/#x6)
- I was dropping off to sleep when the phone rang. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dropping/#x7)
- ‘If you please, sire,’ said the Princess, dropping a curtsey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dropping/#x8)

### note

Double p: drop – dropped – dropping. «Droppings» is almost always plural. «Dropping off to sleep» = falling asleep. «Dropping out» = leaving school or a course. Never touch animal droppings with bare hands.

### In the corpora

- [Cassowaries swallow fruit whole and spread the seeds of over 200 kinds of plants in their droppings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/17/)
- [In some caves dwarf crocodiles have turned orange, possibly from living among bat droppings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/8/)
- [Some giant pitcher plants in Borneo are used as toilets by tree shrews, and the plant feeds on their droppings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/254-plants-deeper-carnivorous-plants-that-count-slip-and-suck/11/)
- [Imagine growing a pair of bony branches on your head every summer, fighting with them in autumn and dropping them in winter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/318-deer-antlers-that-fall-off-and-grow-again-red-deer-roe-deer-moose-muntjac-and-water-deer/0/)
- [Reptiles are full of such tricks, from dropping tails to sticky toes that walk up glass.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/329-tortoises-lizards-and-geckos-as-pets-heat-light-and-washing-hands/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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