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"DROPS" is a plural of: drop. |
Date "DROPS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | Popular name for any solution instilled into the eyes. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Drops of 12 in (30.5 cm) or more in a line of sluices that are formed by allowing the discharge end of one box to rest on the head of the succeeding sluice, instead of telescoping into it. This method ensures a drop of 12 in or more (depending on the depth of the sluice box) at the end of each sluice, which usually is sufficient to disintegrate fairlystiff clay. (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: Comes from droping off of the cliff or ledge. Definition: A cliff or cornous in which one can drop off of into snow. Context: It's just used to decribe the cliffs or other places to jump off of that are not necessarily in the main slopes of the mountain. Social Source: Snowboarders. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DROPS | English | Debt reduction operations | Finance |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inexpedience | Ill-treatment, annoyance, molestation, abuse, oppression, persecution, outrage; misusage; injury; (damage); knockout drops. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DROPS |
| English words defined with "DROPS": Archer fish ♦ bedew, Bedrop, bomber, butterfingers ♦ Cata ♦ damper block, DINK, dribble, drip, dripping, drippy, drizzle, drizzling, drop shot, dropkicker, Dropmele, Dropping tube, Droppinly, Dropsied, Dropwise, Dropworm ♦ Enhydrous ♦ face-off, fine spray ♦ Guttate, Guttated, Gutty ♦ individual ♦ Kirchhoff's laws ♦ Leach brine, Lipochrin ♦ Meazling, Misle, Misly, Mistle, Mistura, moisten ♦ ophthalmia neonatorum ♦ piano damper, plunk, plunker, pour forth ♦ rain, rainfall, raining, rainwater, reserve ♦ shed, shot tower, Sigyn, Spheroidal state, spill, splashed, spray, Staktometer, Stillatitious, Stillicide, Stillicidious, substitute ♦ To give up, trickle ♦ Wrist drop. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DROPS": ladder of drops ♦ Parallel voltage drops, Prince Rupert's Drops. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "DROPS": stalagmite. (references) |
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Screenplays | If it drops below 50, it blows up. What do you do (Speed; writing credit: Graham Yost) On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) A few drops of this in his drink and he'll be dead before dessert (The Emperor's New Groove; writing credit: Chris Williams; Mark Dindal) You gotta look at it differently, Jean Tom. Why, it's only little drops (Gay Purr-ee; writing credit: Chuck Jones; Dorothy Jones) Apparently the difference between a stink bomb and a Level 3 toxic biohazard is two extra drops of sulfur tetraoxide (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette) | |
Lyrics | Got drops, GOT COUPS, got Trucks, GOT JEEPS, all right (Hey Ma; performing artist: Cam'ron) Drops by to say hello (Suspicious Minds; performing artist: Elvis Presley) But I've shed my tears in bitter drops until the thorn trees bloomed (Legend In My Living Room; performing artist: Len) Those tear drops they won't fall again (True Blue; performing artist: Madonna) Whenever blue tear drops are falling (Sexual Healing; performing artist: MARVIN GAYE) | |
Clever | Eye Drops Off Shelf (references; author: unknown) Why is it that rain drops but snow falls? (references; author: unknown) For head cold, use an agonizer to spray the nose until it drops in your throat. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Love Drops (1922) Drops and Flops Props (1917) Love Drops (1910) Knock-Out Drops on the Bowery (1900) A Customer Drops In (1900) | |
Song Titles | Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me) (performing artist: Train) | |
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 | (4) color slides show different types of candy. (1) group of four gummy bears, (1) group of two gum drops, (1) package of M & M's next to a few single M & M's, (1) three single M & M's. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |  | B-1B drops cluster munitions. |
 | B-52H drops a load of M117 750lb bombs. |  | Water drops are very useful for spot fires. Credit: USDA. |
 | Air tanker drops load of retardant on fire, near Winnemucca Nevada, August 1999. Credit: Unknown. |  | The fixed-wing aeroplane can make accurate insecticide drops at 60 mph over open stretches of river. / WHO photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [Sister Cecilia Ruggiero assists a public health nurse give eye drops to a newborn infant]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | A destroyer-escort (DE) drops depth charges while searching for Japanese submarines in Ulithi anchorage on 20 November 1944, following the sinking of USS Mississinewa (AO-59). A Cleveland class light cruiser (CL) and other ships are in the distance. Photographed from USS Bunker Hill (CV-17). Credit: NAVY. |
 | A Curtiss SOC "Seagull" scout-observation aircraft drops a message as it flies over USS Augusta (CA-31), during operations off North Africa in November-December 1942. Note the message capsule that has just been tossed out by the plane's observer. Credit: NAVY. |  | The son takes up the work where the father drops it. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Honey drops" by Ashvin Jetpuria Commentary: "Honey drops on breakfast Wheatbix biscuit." | "Green leaf with rain drops" by Rene Drost Commentary: "A big green leaf with a lot of rain drops on it." |
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 | Digital piano arpeggios with light digital water drops in background. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Hosea Ballou | Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. |
Lucretius | The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | At the words of Javert, Fantine had trembled and dropped the latch, as a thief who is caught, drops what he has stolen |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | His sins trickled from his lips, one by one, trickled in shameful drops from his soul festering and oozing like a sore, a squalid stream of vice |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The scraping was done now, and only a few drops of blood continued to fall from the carcasses into the black pool on the ground |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | When blood sugar drops too low, the alpha cells secrete glucagon. (references) | |
If your CD4+ count later drops below 200, your symptoms may reappear. (references) | ||
Minor corneal infections are commonly treated with anti-bacterial eye drops. (references) | ||
Business | However, quality generally drops with localization and the foreign partner of a Sino-foreign joint venture may find start-up costs high. (references) | |
The initiatives have resulted in significant price drops in vehicle prices which in turn has made purchasing a motor vehicle more accessible to New Zealanders. (references) | ||
US firms complain that as soon as they get an agent trained, he/she drops them for a competitor's product, taking the client list with them. FCS Hong Kong offers the following advice and suggestions to prevent this from happening. (references) | ||
Children | Mozambique | Outside the main cities where there are fewer secondary schools, and where boarding is required for attendance, the number of female students drops significantly. (references) |
Guatemala | According to the December 2000 MINUGUA report, the average Guatemalan child receives 2.3 years of education; however, when only indigenous children are considered, the average drops to 1.3 years of education. (references) | |
Economic History | Haiti | At the secondary level, the figure drops to 15%. Only 63% of those enrolled will complete primary school. (references) |
Human Rights | Philippines | It is illegal to settle a criminal case out of court, but the practice of reaching an "amicable settlement" in which the prosecution drops charges is routine. (references) |
Indonesia | The incidence of mistreatment drops sharply once a prisoner is transferred from police or military custody into the civilian prison system or into the custody of the Attorney General. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SYCOPHANT, n. One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor. As the lean leech, its victim found, is pleased To fix itself upon a part diseased Till, its black hide distended with bad blood, It drops to die of surfeit in the mud, So the base sycophant with joy descries His neighbor's weak spot and his mouth applies, Gorges and prospers like the leech, although, Unlike that reptile, he will not let go. Gelasma, if it paid you to devote Your talent to the service of a goat, Showing by forceful logic that its beard Is more than Aaron's fit to be revered; If to the task of honoring its smell Profit had prompted you, and love as well, The world would benefit at last by you And wealthy malefactors weep anew -- Your favor for a moment's space denied And to the nobler object turned aside. Is't not enough that thrifty millionaires Who loot in freight and spoliate in fares, Or, cursed with consciences that bid them fly To safer villainies of darker dye, Forswearing robbery and fain, instead, To steal (they call it "cornering") our bread May see you groveling their boots to lick And begging for the favor of a kick? Still must you follow to the bitter end Your sycophantic disposition's trend, And in your eagerness to please the rich Hunt hungry sinners to their final ditch? In Morgan's praise you smite the sounding wire, And sing hosannas to great Havemeyher! What's Satan done that him you should eschew? He too is reeking rich -- deducting you. |
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Cindy Adams | I mean it comes in over the transom, under the door. There are seven drops a day that come to me. As I walk out, you will tell me something and I will use it and if you don't I will use it anyway. |
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| "DROPS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 58.03% of the time. "DROPS" is used about 952 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 (plural) | 58.03% | 552 | 11,288 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 41.97% | 400 | 13,972 |
| Total | 100.00% | 952 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "DROPS". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Eglaim | N/A | Biblical | Drops of the sea |
| Noph | N/A | Biblical | Anything that distills or drops |
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Expressions using "DROPS": acid drops ♦ acidulated drops ♦ Beech drops ♦ blue drops ♦ coral drops ♦ cough drops ♦ dew drops ♦ drop by drops ♦ ear drops ♦ eye drops ♦ fruit drops ♦ Infants' Tylenol Cold Plus Cough Concentrated Drops [OTC] ♦ Jesuits' drops ♦ knockout drops ♦ ladder of drops ♦ nose drops ♦ pink drops ♦ pour drops ♦ Rondec Drops ♦ spill drops ♦ Tussafed Drops ♦ yellow drops. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "DROPS": back-drops, dew-drops. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DROPS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | قطرات (drizzle). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | капки. (various references) | |
Czech | kapky. (various references) | |
Danish | oejendraaber (eye-drops). (various references) | |
Dutch | oogdruppels (eye-drops). (various references) | |
Finnish | tipat. (various references) | |
French | gouttes, collyre. (various references) | |
German | tropft (drips, seeps), sinkt, fällt (falls, tumbles). (various references) | |
Greek | κολλύριο (collyrium), σταγόνες (beads). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אגלי טל (dew drops). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gyógycseppek. (various references) | |
Indonesian | deraian (flow of drops, pattering sound). (various references) | |
Italian | collirio (collyrium, eyewash). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 目薬 (eye drops, eyewash), 点鼻薬 (nose drops), 点薬 (applying eye drops), 点眼薬 (eye drops), 点点 (dot, here and there, little by little, scattered in drops, sporadically, spot), 点々 (dot, here and there, little by little, scattered in drops, sporadically, spot), ハトロン紙 (agreed, Armageddon, falling rapidly in big drops, good, haddock, hafnium, halation, halberd, Halley, ham, ham and eggs, ham and salad, Hamilton, Hamming, Hammond organ, hamster, Hanoi, happening, Harrier, Harry, hashed meat with rice, heart going pit-a-pat, honey, honeymoon, Honeywell, Hubbard, hum, humming, hurricane, kraft paper, resin, rosefish, splendid, style of clothing popular in the late 1970s and resembling a Catholic school uniform, to be in harmony, to harmonize, twitterpating, wonderful), 怪雨 (whirlwinds accompanied by rain which also drops strange objects such as fish), 数滴 (several drops), 滴が落ちる (the drops fall down), ぽたぽた落ちる (bit by bit, chubby, cloop, crunching sound, dabble in water, fat, having just ..., in large drops, merely, piece by piece, pimples, plop, plump, pop, splash water, spots, to drip down, to fall in drops, to trickle down, trickle down in thick drops, with a pop), 差し薬 (eye drops, eye lotion), ばい菌 (a sure thing, abruptly, bacteria, be dry, disconnected, disperse, divorced, flop, germ, in drops, in pieces, loose, only, perfectly, plump, properly, right on the mark, rustle, rustling, scattered, suddenly, to be exhausted, to be worn out, to expose, to kill, to lay open, to murder, to take to pieces, unexpectedly, with a bang, with a clash, with a thud). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すうてき (several drops), ハラハラ (falling rapidly in big drops, heart going pit-a-pat, twitterpating), ぽたぽたおちる (to drip down, to fall in drops, to trickle down), ぽろぽろ (in large drops), ぽとぽと (trickle down in thick drops), さしぐすり (eye drops, eye lotion), ばらばら (disconnected, disperse, in drops, in pieces, loose, rustling, scattered), かいう (calla, whirlwinds accompanied by rain which also drops strange objects such as fish), めぐすり (eye drops, eyewash), てんがんやく (eye drops), てんびやく (nose drops), てんやく (applying eye drops, court physician, translating into Braille), てんてん (being passed around repeatedly, dot, here and there, little by little, moving from place to place, rolling about, scattered in drops, sporadically, spot). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | opsdray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | colírio (collyrium, eye drops, eyewash, eyewater). (various references) | |
Romanian | puzderie (army, cloud, dust, flakes, forest, heap, host, infinite, infinity, shoal, ton). (various references) | |
Russian | капли. (various references) | |
Scottish | snigh (drop, fall in drops, ooze through in drops). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kapljice. (various references) | |
Spanish | colirio (collyrium, eye drops, eyewash). (various references) | |
Swedish | släpper. (various references) | |
Thai | ยาหยอดตา (eye drops). (various references) | |
Turkish | damla (bead, blob, drachm, dribblet, driblet, drop, glob, minim, suspicion). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | очні краплі (eye drops). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 22, Verse 44 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai genomenoV en agwnia ektenesteron proshuceto egeneto de o idrwV autou wsei qromboi aimatoV katabainonteV epi thn ghn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et factus est sudor eius sicut guttae sanguinis decurrentis in terram |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | And hys swat wæs swylce blodes dropan on eorðan yrnende. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And his swot was maad as dropis of blood rennynge doun in to the erthe. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And he was in an agonye and prayed somwhat longer. And hys sweate was lyke droppes of bloud tricklynge doune to the grounde. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling to the ground. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And being in great trouble of soul, the force of his prayer became stronger, and great drops, like blood, came from him, falling to the earth. |
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| Language | Luke Chapter 22, Verse 44 |
| Cebuano | Ug sa nag-antus siya sa hilabihang kasakit, siya nag-ampo sa labi pa ka mainiton gayud; ug ang iyang singot nanibug-ok daw apol nga nagpangatagak sa yuta. |
| Chinese | 耶 穌 極 其 傷 痛 、 禱 告 更 加 懇 切 ． 汗 珠 如 大 血 點 、 滴 在 地 上 。 |
| Croatian | I bijaše znoj njegov kao kaplje krvi koje su padale na zemlju. |
| Danish | Og da han var i Dødsangst, bad han heftigere; men hans Sved blev som Blodsdråber, der faldt ned på Jorden. |
| Dutch | En in zwaren strijd zijnde, bad Hij te ernstiger. En zijn zweet werd gelijk grote droppelen bloeds, die op de aarde afliepen. |
| Finnish | Ja kun hän oli suuressa tuskassa, rukoili hän yhä hartaammin. Ja hänen hikensä oli niinkuin veripisarat, jotka putosivat maahan. |
| French | Étant en agonie, il priait plus instamment, et sa sueur devint comme des grumeaux de sang, qui tombaient à terre. |
| German | Und es kam, daß er mit dem Tode rang und betete heftiger. Es ward aber sein Schweiß wie Blutstropfen, die fielen auf die Erde. |
| Haitian Creole | Kè Jezi te sere anpil, li t'ap lapriyè pi rèd. Swe t'ap koule sou li tonbe atè tankou gwo degout san. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka di dalam ketakutan yang amat sangat, makin bersungguh-sungguh hati Ia berdoa, sehingga peluh-Nya menjadi seperti darah menitik ke bumi. |
| Maori | A, i te oke o tona wairua, ka hohonu ake tana inoi: ko tona kakawa ka pena i te tepe toto e turuturu iho ana ki te whenua. |
| Norwegian | Og han kom i dødsangst og bad enda heftigere, og hans sved blev som blodsdråper, som falt ned på jorden. |
| Portuguese | E, posto em agonia, orava mais intensamente; e o seu suor tornou-se como grandes gotas de sangue, que caíam sobre o chão. |
| Rumanian | A ajuns kntr`un chin ca de moarte, wi a knceput sq Se roage wi mai fierbinte; wi sudoarea I se fqcuse ca niwte picqturi mari de sknge, cari cqdeau pe pqmknt. |
| Shuar | Tura Jesus Imiá Wáitias pujak Nú kakaram Yúsan áujsamiayi. Tura ni searmarisha Numpá ántsan Nunká kitiawarmiayi. |
| Spanish | Y angustiado, oraba con mayor intensidad, de modo que su sudor era como grandes gotas de sangre que caían hasta la tierra. |
| Swahili | Akiwa katika uchungu mkubwa, alisali kwa bidii zaidi; na jasho likamtoka, kama matone ya damu, likatiririka mpaka chini.*fe* ic |
| Swedish | Men han hade kommit i svår ångest och bad allt ivrigare, och hans svett blev såsom blodsdroppar, som föllo ned på jorden. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DROPS": dropshot, dropshots, dropsical, dropsied, dropsies, dropsy. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "DROPS": airdrops, backdrops, beechdrops, dewdrops, eardrops, eavesdrops, eyedrops, gumdrops, hydrops, outdrops, paradrops, pinedrops, raindrops, snowdrops, sundrops, teardrops. (additional references) | |
Words containing "DROPS": hydropses, hydropsies, hydropsy. (additional references) | |
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"DROPS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dorp, dorps, Dripps, drogs, droobs, dropp, Droppa, dropy, dros, Drost, drous, duros, dwop, krops, Rops, rospo, trops, trrops. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DROPS" (pronounced drÄ"ps) |
| 4 | -r Ä" p s | crops, props. |
| 3 | -Ä" p s | chops, cops, flops, hops, Kops, mops, ops, pops, shoppes, shops, sops, stops, swaps, tops, wops. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dorps, prods. | |
| Words within the letters "d-o-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: dorp, dors, drop, pods, prod, pros, rods, sord. | |
-2 letters: dor, dos, ods, ops, ors, pod, pro, rod, sod, sop. | |
-3 letters: do, od, op, or, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-o-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: dopers, droops, dropsy, pedros, prosed, spored. | |
+2 letters: deports, deposer, disport, dorpers, hydrops, parados, pardons, parodos, periods, polders, ponders, powders, presold, prosody, pushrod, redtops, reposed, respond, sparoid, spiroid, spoored, sporoid, sported, torpids, tripods, uropods. | |
+3 letters: adaptors, adopters, airdrops, cuspidor, deplores, deposers, dewdrops, diaspora, diaspore, dimorphs, diopters, dioptres, disports, disposer, disproof, disprove, doorpost, doorstep, doorstop, dopester, dramshop, droplets, dropouts, droppers, dropshot, dropsied, dropsies, eardrops, eyedrops, gumdrops, hardtops, hospodar, hydropsy, jeopards, jodhpurs, leopards, leporids, lordship, operands, outdrops, padrones, pandoors, pandoras, pandores, pandours, paradors, parodies, parodist, parotids, password, pastored, percoids, peridots, peroxids, picadors, pledgors, plodders, pochards, podagras, pollards, poniards, portends, postcard, postdrug, postgrad, postured, potshard, potsherd, poulards, pounders, precodes, premolds, presidio, prismoid, prisoned, probands, proceeds, prodders, produces, products, promised, propends, proposed, prosodic, proteids, protends, proudest, provides, purposed, pushrods, readopts, redpolls, responds, rhapsode, rhapsody, ripcords, riposted, roadmaps, roundups, sauropod, scorepad, scrooped, snowdrop, sparoids, spheroid, splendor, sporadic, sprouted, stropped, sundrops, topsider, torpedos, uphoards, uproused, upsoared. | |
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