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DROP-IN

Specialty Definition: DROP-IN

DomainDefinition

Computing

The accidental appearance of an unwanted character, digit, or bit on magnetic recording surfaces. Source: European Union. (references)

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Synonyms: DROP-IN

Synonyms by domain: drop-ins (computingcomputing, meteorology & standards).

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Modern Usage: DROP-IN

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Drop-In (1970)

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Commercial Usage: DROP-IN

DomainTitle

Books

  • Drop-In Delights: Activities for the Leisurely Patron (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Image Slideshow: DROP-IN

Computer Images:
DROP-IN

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Non-Fiction Usage: DROP-IN

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Children

Morocco

In addition, UNICEF and other donors in 2000 funded a pilot project in Casablanca, working through Moroccan NGO's, to aid young girls by providing basic education, health care, and recreational opportunities for child maids at five drop-in centers. (references)

Women

Indonesia

There are a small but growing number of women's crisis centers, including a drop-in center founded in Jakarta by the government-sponsored National Women's Organization (KOWANI) and a crisis center for women in Yogyakarta that is administered by an NGO. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: DROP-IN

"DROP-IN" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DROP-IN" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1397,576

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DROP-IN

Language Translations for "DROP-IN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

lecture de parasite. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

op-indray

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Anagrams: DROP-IN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-i-n-o-p-r"

-1 letter: orpin, poind, prion.

-2 letters: dorp, drip, drop, inro, iron, nodi, noir, nori, pion, pirn, pond, porn, prod, rind.

-3 letters: din, dip, don, dor, ion, nip, nod, nor, pin, pod, poi, pro, rid, rin, rip, rod.

-4 letters: do, id, in, no, od, on, op, or, pi.

 Words containing the letters "d-i-n-o-p-r"
 

+1 letter: padroni, poniard.

 

+2 letters: dipteron, drooping, dropping, drypoint, inpoured, paranoid, phoronid, poniards, prisoned, prodding, propined, pyranoid, pyrenoid, raindrop.

 

+3 letters: conspired, deploring, deporting, disproven, dripstone, droppings, drypoints, endorphin, incorpsed, paranoids, pardoning, parodying, perdition, phoronids, pinafored, pinedrops, pioneered, pondering, poniarded, portioned, powdering, precoding, predation, preordain, princedom, producing, properdin, provident, providing, purloined, pyrenoids, raindrops, rhodopsin, terpenoid, windproof.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Synonyms
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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