drop
part of speech
verb (drop, drops, dropped, dropping); noun (a drop, drops)
meaning for a pupil
1) To drop is to let something fall from your hand; what you drop is lost to you. tree →
2) To drop is to fall or go down: «The temperature dropped». tree →
3) To drop someone off is to take them somewhere in a car and leave them there. tree →
4) A drop is a very small amount of liquid, like a drop of rain. tree →
5) A drop is a fall in an amount: «a drop in price». tree →
6) To drop off means to fall asleep. tree →
sense in the lessons
to let things fall, so the one who drops them has fewer; a temperature or price that drops goes down; in science we count drops of water; phrases: «drop off», «drop out», «a drop of», «drop by», «drop it»
examples
- Sam drops 5 balloons. tree →
- Mia had 12 eggs and dropped 3. How many eggs are not dropped? tree →
- Ben dropped 4 of his 10 marbles. tree →
- The temperature dropped by 6 degrees overnight. tree →
- Dad drops us off at school at 8. tree →
- Add two drops of food colouring to the water. tree →
- Big drops of rain hit the window. tree →
- Don't drop your ice cream! tree →
- At last he dropped off to sleep. tree →
note
Past: dropped (double p). «drops N» takes N away from the one who drops them. Trap: «the temperature drops» is a change in a measure, still subtract. Trap: «drop off» a person is not losing them.
In the corpora
- It can drop the sugar from a cookie recipe.
- Sharks smell blood well, but the story that they can smell one drop from miles away is exaggerated.
- Crows in Japan drop walnuts at traffic lights for cars to crack, and crows can remember a human face for years.
- A gull drops a shellfish onto rocks from a height to smash the shell open.
- Grapes and raisins can damage dogs' kidneys, so dropped grapes should be picked up at once.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «drop» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.