dropping
part of speech
verb (present participle of drop: drop, drops, dropped, dropping); noun (droppings — usually plural)
meaning for a pupil
1) Dropping means letting something fall, or falling. tree →
2) Dropping means becoming lower or less, like dropping temperatures. tree →
3) Droppings are the poo of animals and birds. tree →
4) Dropping someone off means taking them somewhere in a car and leaving them there. tree →
5) To drop a curtsey means to bend the knees and lower the body as a polite greeting. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Proverbs compares a quarrelsome wife to a constant leak of rain; the Song of Songs uses dripping myrrh for lovely lips. Interpretation: Tradition reads the Song of Songs as a picture of love between God and Israel. In the primary lessons: In everyday life «dropping off» is about getting to school; in science temperatures and prices drop. In safety and hygiene lessons, animal droppings carry germs, so you don't touch them and wash your hands. Phrases: «dropping off», «dropping out», «bird droppings», «dropping like flies».
examples
- A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike; (Writings PRO.27.15, JPS 1917) tree →
- A foolish son is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. (Writings PRO.19.13, JPS 1917) tree →
- His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as banks of sweet herbs; his lips are as lilies, dropping with flowing myrrh. (Writings SNG.5.13, JPS 1917) tree →
- Stop dropping crumbs on the floor! tree →
- The temperature is dropping fast tonight. tree →
- Dad is dropping me off at school. tree →
- There were bird droppings on the car. tree →
- Mouse droppings show there are mice in the house. tree →
- He kept dropping the ball. tree →
- I was dropping off to sleep when the phone rang. tree →
- ‘If you please, sire,’ said the Princess, dropping a curtsey. tree →
note
Double p: drop – dropped – dropping. «Droppings» is almost always plural. «Dropping off to sleep» = falling asleep. «Dropping out» = leaving school or a course. Never touch animal droppings with bare hands.
In the corpora
- A foolish son is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
- A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike;
- Cassowaries swallow fruit whole and spread the seeds of over 200 kinds of plants in their droppings.
- In some caves dwarf crocodiles have turned orange, possibly from living among bat droppings.
- Some giant pitcher plants in Borneo are used as toilets by tree shrews, and the plant feeds on their droppings.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «dropping» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.