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Definition: Dropper |
DropperNoun1. Pipet consisting of a small tube with a vacuum bulb at one end for drawing liquid in and releasing it a drop at a time. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Electrical Engineering | A component provided for the suspension of a registering cross span, auxiliary cable or contact wire, either from a cross span supporting cable or a longitudinal supporting cable. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | Tube designed to measure liquids in drops. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A branch vein pointing downwards. See also:leader b. A spar dropping into the lode c. See:feeder d. A branch leaving a vein on the footwall side. (references) |
Occupations | Tends equipment that taps (drains) beer storage tanks to maintain continuous flow of beer to filtering machine: Couples hose lines to pumps, tanks, and filtering machine. Observes meters and turns valves on gas tank to admit specified amounts of carbon dioxide into storage tank to create effervescence in beer, and to apply external pressure on tank to counteract internal stress. Observes gauge to determine when to turn valves to switch from empty to full tank. Opens valve to release counter pressure on empty tanks and uncouples hoses. (references) |
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Synonym: DropperSynonym: eye dropper (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Dropper |
| English words defined with "dropper": eyedrop. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dropper": CHUTE LOADER ♦ grinder, needle tip ♦ needle grinder ♦ PHONOGRAPH-NEEDLE-TIP MAKER, POULTRY VACCINATOR ♦ railroad-car loader, RUM DROPPER ♦ single-pointed operator ♦ WEIGHT TESTER. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Rain Dropper (1928) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Eye dropper water test to see if a soil is hydrophobic. Credit: USDA. |
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| "Dropper" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dropper" is used about 23 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 23 | 72,767 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "dropper": eye dropper ♦ Guinea dropper ♦ medicine dropper ♦ overhead contact system dropper ♦ ring dropper. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "dropper": name-dropper. | |
Containing "dropper": eye-dropper-bottle, eye-dropper-type. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
dropper | 23 | bottle dropper plastic | 4 |
eye dropper | 21 | dropper horse trojan | 4 |
dropper bottle | 20 | glass dropper | 4 |
dropper trojan | 19 | dropper generator source | 3 |
name dropper | 11 | bottle dropper european | 3 |
jaw dropper | 7 | dropper kelvin water | 3 |
dropper virus | 6 | glass eye dropper | 2 |
medicine dropper | 6 | 3 bottle dropper ml plastic | 2 |
delf dropper | 5 | bottle dropper glass | 2 |
dropper loop | 5 | dropper pantie pink | 2 |
dropper.delf horse trojan | 5 | dropper trojan virus | 2 |
dropper pantie | 4 | dropper fishing fly | 2 |
delf dropper virus | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "dropper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pikatore (medicine dropper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قطارة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | гутатор (medicine dropper, pipette), пипетка (medicine dropper, pipette). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 吸管. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | kapátko. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | dråbetæller (drop tube, pipette), pipette (drop tube, elevator, levator, pipet, pipette, rod thief, thief), koeretraadsklemme (hanger), koereledningshaenger (hanger, overhead contact system dropper), hænger (hanger, hangup, overhead contact system dropper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | druppelteller (drop tube, pipette), druppelflesje (drop tube, pipette), ophangdraad (hanger, overhead contact system dropper), hangdraadklem (hanger), hangdraad van bovenleiding (hanger, overhead contact system dropper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | چکاننده , قطره چکان (Drippan), اویخته (Hung, Pendant, Underhung). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tippapullo (drop tube, pipette), ripustin (clothes-hanger, dress-hanger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | compte-gouttes (drop tube). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Tropffläschchen (drop tube, pipette), tropfer, Tropfenzählerflasche (drop tube, pipette), Tropfenzähler (drop tube, pipette), Hanger (hanger, overhead contact system dropper), Haengedraht (hanger, overhead contact system dropper), Hängerklemme (hanger), Fahrdrahthaenger (hanger, overhead contact system dropper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σταγονόμετρο (pipette). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מזלף (pipette, sprayer, sprinkler, watering can), א"ק (clip), טפטפת (pipette). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | csöpögtetõ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | contagocce (drop tube, pipette). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 点滴器 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | て"てきき. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | tuitteyder (faller), quaillag hoshee, pipaid (dripping tube, pipette), drigeyder (drip-feed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | opperdray conta-gotas (filler, medicine dropper, pipette). (various references) setter (lying dog), pipetã (medicine dropper, pipette), aruncãtor (caster, casting, pitcher, thrower). (various references) капельница (drop counter). (various references) pipeta (pipette), kapalica. (various references) cuentagotas (drop tube, pipette). (various references) bärtråd (hanger, overhead contact system dropper). (various references) damlalık (dosimeter, drip, stactometer). (various references) сетер (lying dog, setter), висулька, піпетка (pipet, pipette). (various references) ống nhỏ giọt (dripping-tube, dropping-tube). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dropper": dropperful, dropperfuls, droppers, droppersful. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "dropper": eavesdropper, eyedropper. (additional references) | |
Words containing "dropper": eavesdroppers, eyedroppers. (additional references) | |
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"Dropper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: drobner, Droppa, droppen, dropple. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dropper" (pronounced drÄ"per) |
| 4 | -r Ä" p er | cropper, improper, proper. |
| 3 | -Ä" p er | bopper, chopper, copper, Hopper, Popper, shopper, stopper, Topper, whopper. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-o-p-p-r-r" | |
-1 letter: dorper, proper. | |
-2 letters: doper, order, pedro, pored, repro, roped, roper. | |
-3 letters: doer, dope, dore, dorp, dorr, drop, oped, pepo, perp, pope, pore, prep, prod, prop, redo, repo, repp, rode, rope. | |
-4 letters: doe, dor, err, ode, ope, ore, ped, pep, per, pod, pop, pro, red, rep, rod, roe. | |
-5 letters: de, do, ed, er, od, oe, op. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-o-p-p-r-r" | |
+1 letter: droppers. | |
+2 letters: properdin, prospered, purported. | |
+3 letters: airdropped, dropperful, eyedropper, paperboard, properdins, propertied, propounder, reapproved. | |
+4 letters: dipterocarp, disapprover, dropperfuls, droppersful, eyedroppers, overcropped, paperboards, paradropped, preapproved, propounders, purportedly. | |
+5 letters: appropriated, carrottopped, dipterocarps, disapprovers, eavesdropper, expropriated, intercropped, preponderant, preponderate, preportioned, preprocessed, preprogramed, proportioned, pteridosperm, sharecropped, superpowered. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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