Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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drop | Yes | No | Yes | No |
dip | Yes | No | Yes | No |
drop (noun) | dip (noun) |
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the act of dropping something | a brief swim in water |
a central depository where things can be left or picked up | a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms |
a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery | a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow |
a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity | a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity |
a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity | a brief immersion |
a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property) | tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped |
a steep high face of rock | a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places |
a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid) | (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon |
a shape that is spherical and small | a depression in an otherwise level surface |
drop (verb) | dip (verb) |
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give birth; used for animals | stain an object by immersing it in a liquid |
grow progressively worse | go down momentarily |
go down in value | dip into a liquid while eating |
stop pursuing or acting | immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate |
change from one level to another | plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container |
lower the pitch of (musical notes) | immerse in a disinfectant solution |
fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death | scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface |
leave undone or leave out | place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax |
omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing | dip into a liquid |
utter with seeming casualness | appear to move downward |
lose (a game) | slope downwards |
take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth | lower briefly |
remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave | switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam |
to remove | take a small amount from |
cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow | |
let or cause to fall in drops | |
to fall vertically | |
let fall to the ground | |
fall or descend to a lower place or level | |
pay out | |
stop associating with | |
terminate an association with | |
hang loosely |