noun
Meaning 1
Something dropped; a droplet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
dropping
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: drŏpʹĭng
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɒpɪŋ/
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General-American: drŏpʹĭng
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General-American: /ˈdɹɑpɪŋ/
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rhymes with -ɒpɪŋ
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CMU ARPABET: D R AA1 P IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A piece of animal excrement; dung.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural-normally
Examples
- a rabbit dropping
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The act of something that drops or falls.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
present participle and gerund of drop
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
coming down freely under the influence of gravity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the eerie whistle of dropping bombs
- falling rain
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: falling
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
By surface analysis, drop + -ing.
Across languages
Translations
56 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: ծիրտ (cirt) — animal excrement
- Bulgarian: курешки (kureški) — animal excrement
- Chinese Mandarin: 糞 /粪 (fèn) — animal excrement
- Dutch: keutel — animal excrement
- Finnish: jätös — animal excrement
- Finnish: uloste — animal excrement
- Finnish: lanta — animal excrement
- Finnish: papana — animal excrement
- French: crotte — animal excrement
- French: fiente — animal excrement
- Galician: cagalla — animal excrement
- Galician: bosta — animal excrement
- German: Kot — animal excrement
- Greek: βερβελιές (verveliés) — animal excrement
- Ancient Greek: σπύραθοι (spúrathoi) — animal excrement
- Gujarati: હગાર (hagār) — animal excrement
- Hindi: मैँगनी (ma͠ignī) — animal excrement
- Hindi: मेंगनी (meṅgnī) — animal excrement
- Hindi: मेगनी (megnī) — animal excrement
- Hindi: मींगनी (mīṅgnī) — animal excrement
- Hindi: मिंगनी (miṅgnī) — animal excrement
- Hindi: बीट (bīṭ) — animal excrement
- Italian: escrementi — animal excrement
- Japanese: 糞 (kuso) — animal excrement
- Japanese: ふん (fun) — animal excrement
- Latvian: mēsli — animal excrement
- Lithuanian: išmatos — animal excrement
- Māori: hamuti — animal excrement
- Māori: hamiti — animal excrement
- Māori: roke — animal excrement
- Māori: tūtae — animal excrement
- Māori: tiko — animal excrement
- Māori: kurakura — animal excrement
- Māori: weta — animal excrement
- Portuguese: excrementos — animal excrement
- Romanian: găinaț — animal excrement
- Russian: помёт (pomjót) — animal excrement
- Russian: наво́з (navóz) — animal excrement
- Russian: кака́шки (kakáški) — animal excrement
- Scottish Gaelic: buachar — animal excrement
- Sranan Tongo: kaka — animal excrement
- Swedish: spillning — animal excrement
- Tagalog: ipot — animal excrement
- Turkish: pislik — animal excrement
- Ukrainian: лайно (lajno) — animal excrement
- Ukrainian: кал (kal) — animal excrement
- Vietnamese: phân — animal excrement
- Walloon: polene — animal excrement
- Walloon: stron — animal excrement
- Walloon: schite — animal excrement
- Welsh: tail — animal excrement
- Welsh: tom — animal excrement
- Welsh: dom — animal excrement
- Welsh: baw — animal excrement
- Welsh: cagl — animal excrement
- Welsh: ceglyn — animal excrement
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