A circular horizontal surface of indefinite diameter gave a drop of water weighing 2·10 grains. This is therefore the weight of the maximumdrop formed on a flat surface, and it will be seen that it very nearly coincides with the weight of thedrop formed upon a surface seven-tenths of an inch diameter. Thedrop in this case is always formed at the centre of the surface, this being the centre of the greatest molecular attraction amongst the liquid particles.
1986, Eugene Tinory,Journey from Ammeah: The Story of a Lebanese Immigrant, Brattleboro, Vt.: Amana Books,→ISBN, page96:
My first treatment consisted of one eyedrop in each eye which was supposed to determine the condition of the eye and make it easier to examine them the next day.
2009, Mark A[llan] Goldstein, Myrna Chandler Goldstein, Larry P. Credit, “Glaucoma[Tipes for Using Eye Drops]”, inYour Best Medicine: From Conventional and Complementary Medicine—Expert-endorsed Therapeutic Solutions to Relieve Symptoms and Speed Healing, New York, N.Y.:Rodale Books,→ISBN, part 2 (The Best Medicine for 81 Common Health Concerns),page234, column 1:
The eye is able to hold only about 20 percent of the amount of fluid in a standard eyedrop. Therefore, put only one eyedrop in your eye at a time. If you have been instructed to use more than one eyedrop, wait about 5 minutes between thedrops. This will allow more of thedrops to be absorbed and will reduce waste.
He was thirsty but there wasn’t adrop of water to be found
They didn’t show adrop of remorse
1994, Yvonne Howell, “Introduction”, inApocalyptic Realism: The Science Fiction ofArkady and Boris Strugatsky (Russian and East European Studies in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Culture; 1), New York, N.Y.:Peter Lang,→ISBN,→ISSN, page 1:
BAZARIN: Zoya Sergeevna, just adrop more tea, if you would. / ZOYA SERGEEVNA: (pouring tea) Do you want it strong?
Finally she landed the role, and glory be to God, her best friend Melanie landed the role of Anne's best friend. Not onedrop of help did she get from her showbiz parents, who were far too preoccupied with the shape of twenty-four table centre-pieces,[…]
1986 June, “Information Obtained in the Investigation”, inApple Juice: Report to the President on Investigation No. TA-201-59 under Section 201 of the Trade Act of 1974 (USITC Publication;1861), Washington, D.C.:United States International Trade Commission,→OCLC,pageA-2:
Drops are another source of juice apple supply. As the pickers pick apples in orchards oriented toward fresh-market or canning apples, apples fall or are accidentally knocked to the ground; these aredrops. The only use fordrops is juice production.
1993, United States Commission on Agricultural Workers, “The Apple Industry in New York and Pennsylvania”, inCase Studies and Research Reports Prepared for the Commission on Agricultural Workers 1989–1993 to Accompany the Report of the Commission: Appendix I, Washington, D.C.:Government Printing Office,→OCLC,page387, column 1:
Drops are fruit that has fallen to the ground naturally or that is dropped or knocked off during harvest.Drops have no value except for pressing for juice. While the value ofdrops is usually minimal, they must be removed from the orchards; otherwise, they attract mice which later in the season, once the apples are gone, gnaw on the roots of apple trees.
2002, Ken Haedrich, “Very Apple Apple Pies”, inApple Pie: 100 Delicious and Decidedly Different Recipes for America’s Favorite Pie, Boston, Mass.:The Harvard Common Press,→ISBN,page97, column 1:
But in the fall, when apples are abundant and cheap, I like to make my own [applesauce]. I'll often buy a few bags of "drops" just for this purpose.Drops are apples that have fallen from the trees instead of being picked. They're less expensive since they might have a bruise or two, but otherwise they're fresh nd juicy.
2005 October, Michael Phillips, “Growing Apples Locally”, inThe Apple Grower: A Guide for the Organic Orchardist, revised edition, White River Junction, Vt.:Chelsea Green Publishing Company,→ISBN,page 3:
Biologically based IPM goes further by integrating orchard practices for common gain. Thus, in a second-level IPM orchard, sprays are withheld after June to allow beneficial insect populations to rebuild; summer maggot fly incursions are trapped at the border;drops are removed to limit in-orchard pest pupation; and fall sanitation is used to reduce disease inoculum the following spring.
2009, Ben Watson,Cider, Hard and Sweet: History, Traditions, and Making Your Own, 2nd edition, Woodstock, Vt.:The Countryman Press,→ISBN,page54, column 1:
Drops are often considered the same as windfalls, and some people insist that any fruit that has fallen to the ground—no matter for how short a time—should not be used for making cider.[…]Drops, on the other hand [unlike windfalls], are fruits that have sat around on the ground for a longer period of time—typically a day or more.
As the prisoners prepared to leave, they had seen Dan and Steve standing together in the breezeway, ‘for all the world like two condemned prisoners on thedrop’.
1983,Theatre Crafts, New York, N.Y.: Theatre Crafts Associates,→ISSN,→OCLC, page61, column 1:
La Cage's upstagedrops include two of the St. Tropez harbor (one for the day and another for the night), [... an] oceandrop (used in an Act I dream sequence), and an abstract chandelierdrop (used in the second act[…]).
InThe Rover, one of these esthetically important elements was the arrangement of the upstagedrops. Originally thedrop was split into three sections, with obvious and blatant seams between them.
The slope of the terrain, shaped like a funnel, squeezed the growing swell of churning snow into a steep, twisting gorge. It moved in surges, like a roller coaster on a series ofdrops and high-banked turns.
The delivery driver has to make three moredrops before lunch.
The spy made thedrop, leaving the plans under the tree as arranged.
2020, Arlana Crane,Mordecai's Ashes:
That was how a drug deal went down?[…] Karl shook his head and pulled away from the curb, heading for his nextdrop and feeling distinctly uncomfortable about the mass of cash now keeping the drugs in his bags company.
1996, Steve Bourie, Anthony Curtis[et al.],American Casino Guide, Dania, Fla.: Casino Vacations, published1997,→ISBN, page12:
What the first column in the table shows you is how much the casinos won as a percentage of thedrop. For example, on the roulette table for every $100 that went into thedrop box the casino wonj $22.70 or 22.70%.[…] In other words, thedrop tells you how many chips were bought at that table, but it doesn't tell you how many bets were made with those chips.
She. Have you ever seen a man hanged? He. Yes. Once. She. What was it for? He. Murder, of course. She. Murder. Isthat so great a sin after all? I wonder how he felt before thedrop fell.
[A]ll those present shared the all-important political connections required to get a ticket to the execution. News reporters, doctors, and members of the juries had prime spots right by the platform, so that they could see thedrop and record the time of death.
[T]he volume of money was expected to fluctuate with the volume of business activity so that adrop in business activity would bring adrop in the volume of money outstanding.[…] If the volume of money is reduced, it tends to produce a slightdrop in demand for all sorts of commodities.
An Ananda truck coming down a steep, winding mountain road completely lost its brakes and crashed through a thin guard rail over an almost sheer 1000 footdrop. It was caught and held by a solitary tree that was growing in the one and only spot where it could prevent a certain fatal plunge. No one was even slightly injured.
1869, Richard W. Meade,A Treatise on Naval Architecture and Shipbuilding, page117:
A further point is, that the convenience of the ship herself may interfere with the disposition of sails. A high forecastle will shorten thedrop of the foresail, and a poop may seriously interfere with the spanker.
1969, Richard Armstrong,The Merchantmen, page97:
Her mainyard was 80 feet long, and her mainsail had adrop of 40 feet.
2020, John McKay,Sovereign of the Seas, 1637:
Because this natural bulging was not adequate, the sails were deliberately made to round outward by cutting the cloths longer than necessary for thedrop of the sail.
1973, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business,Criminal Redistribution Systems and Their Economic Impact on Small Business: Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, page811:
Adrop is a place where the stolen property can be stored. It may be a warehouse, an apartment, or a garage. At thedrop, a group of persons called loaders remove the merchandise from the truck and store it.
But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which[Justin] Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which meansBelieve is loaded up with EDM [electronic dance music] accouterments, seeking a comfortable middle ground where Bieber’s impressively refined pop-R&B croon can rub up on techno blasts and garish dubstepdrops (and occasionally grind on some AutoTune, not necessarily because it needs it, but because a certain amount of robo-voice is expected these days).
2015, Robin James,Resilience & Melancholy[5], Zero Books,→ISBN:
Just as dubstep has grown in popularity and combined with many different genres, thedrop has become a generalized type of which there are many individually varying instances, including dubstep bass-drop. AsLA Times critic Randall Roberts notes, even good-girl tween pop idol Taylor Swift uses adrop in her Max-Martin-Produced track “I Knew You Were Trouble.”
1722 September 12,Robert Digby, “[Letters to and from the Hon. Robert Digby. From 1717 to 1724.] Letter X [toAlexander Pope].”, inThe Works of Alexander Pope Esq., volume VIII (Being the Second of His Letters), London:[…] J. and P. Knapton[…], published1751,→OCLC,page43:
Nothing, ſaysSeneca, is ſo melancholy a circumſtance in human life, or ſo ſoon reconciles us to the thought of our own death, as the reflection and prospect of one friend after anotherdropping round us!
This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she haddropped to the level of a casual labourer.
The 18-year-old[Justin] Bieber can’t quite pull off the “adult” thing just yet: His voice may havedropped a bit since the days of “Baby,” but it still mostly registers as “angelic,” and veers toward a pubescent whine at times.
He used todrop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.
When opened, these chests have a chance todrop powerful items.
2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, inRAIL, number948, page43:
But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from the aircraft they should have beendropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits of debris, and the line to a huge crater.
2011, Alexander Mamishev, Sean Williams,Technical Writing for Teams: The STREAM Tools Handbook, page64:
Here is a simple example: suppose you are in the process of writing a 15-page proposal and at a certain point you decide that, in order to fit all your material, you want todrop the font size from 12 to 11.
If Carly Telford’s replacement of Karen Bardsley, because of a hamstring injury, was enforced, the switch to 4-4-1-1 was not. This new-look configuration saw Rachel Daly deployed in front of Lucy Bronze down the right, Toni Duggan and Fran Kirbydropped, Beth Mead introduced on the left and Nikita Parris moved up front.
I had todrop calculus because it was taking up too much of my time.
2022 October 13, Lisa Sanders, M.D., “She Suffered From Headaches and Fatigue. Were Concussions to Blame?”, inThe New York Times Magazine[9]:
The specialists she had taken her daughter to see attributed her collection of symptoms to the lingering effect of the many concussions she suffered playing sports. She had at least one concussion every year since she was in the fourth grade. Because of her frequent head injuries, her parents made herdrop all her sports.
My friends went to the football game, but I skipped, as I had justdropped a lot of money on a new bike wheel.
1949,The Atlantian, volume 8, Atlanta: United States Penitentiary, page41:
The question was: Who put the most in the collection box? The wealthy guy, whodropped a “C” note, or the tattered old dame who parted with her last tarnished penny.
2000, Lisa Reardon,Blameless: A Novel, Random House, page221:
I forked over the $19.25. I was in no position to bedropping twenties like gumdrops but I deserved something good from this crappy morning.
1667,John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC:
FromMiddle Dutchdrope(“drop”), fromOld Dutchdropo, fromProto-Germanic*drupô. When unsuffixed,drop is more common thandrup, but suffixeddruppel is more common thandroppel; this is likely due to the effects ofi-umlaut triggered by the suffix-el. Indeed,drup is assumed to be based ondruppel, asdrop is the linguistically expected form (Germanic*u becomes Dutcho).
The sense “licorice” developed from the sense “drop of licorice extract”; compare alsoEnglishlemon drop.
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