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Drop A Line

Definition: Drop A Line

Drop A Line

Verb

1. Communicate (with) in writing; "Write her soon, please!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonym: Drop A Line

Synonym: write (v). (additional references)

Modern Usage: Drop A Line

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Yeah remind me to drop a line to Ralph Nader! (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: Drop A Line

Language		Translations for "drop a line"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		спускам перпендикуляр към линия. (various references)

Czech		vynechat (cut, cut out, leave out, Miss, miss out, omit, overpass, pass, sit out, skip, stay off), napsat pár řádkù. (various references)

German		ein paar Zeilen schreiben (to drop a line). (various references)

Hungarian		egy pár sort ír valakinek. (various references)

Pig Latin		opdray aay inelay

Russian		черкнуть. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		napisati par reči. (various references)

Turkish		iki satır yazmak (drop smb. a line). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Drop A Line

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-l-n-o-p-r"
	-1 letter: palinode, pelorian.
	-2 letters: aileron, alienor, aneroid, aproned, dariole, dipolar, ladrone, leopard, leporid, oedipal, opaline, operand, ordinal, padrone, padroni, pandore, pardine, paroled, peloria, plained, plainer, poniard, praline, predial, proline.
	-3 letters: aldrin, alined, aliner, aliped, alpine, ariled, darnel, denari, denial, derail, dialer, diaper, dinero, diploe, dipole, dopier, eidola, elapid, eolian, indole, inroad, ironed, ladino, ladron.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-l-n-o-p-r"
	+1 letter: palindrome, panbroiled.
	+2 letters: palindromes, periodontal, philodendra, polyandries, unpolarized.
	+3 letters: depolarizing, imponderable, imponderably, interpolated, lepidopteran, overpedaling, perichondral, personalised, personalized, providential.
	+4 letters: cephaloridine, depersonalize, imponderables, landownership, lepidopterans, overexplained, overpedalling, periodontally, porcelainized, predominantly, predominately, reduplication.
	+5 letters: cephaloridines, depersonalized, depersonalizes, depolarization, impersonalized, landownerships, malapportioned, predevaluation, providentially, provincialized, radiotelephone, radiotelephony, reduplications.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Translations: Modern

5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography

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