Drop vs Fire - What's the difference?
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A small mass of liquid just large enough to hold its own weight via surface tension, usually one that falls from a source of liquid.
The space or distance below a cliff or other high position into which someone or something could fall.
A fall, descent; an act of dropping.
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A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, sometimes associated with criminal activity; a drop-off point.
An instance of dropping supplies or making a delivery, sometimes associated with delivery of supplies by parachute.
(chiefly, British) a small amount of an alcoholic beverage; or when used with the definite article (the drop ), alcoholic spirits in general.
(Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
A small, round, sweet piece of hard candy, a lemon drop; a lozenge.
(American football) A dropped pass.
(American football) Short for drop-back or drop back.
In a woman'', the difference between bust circumference and hip circumference; ''in a man , the difference between chest circumference and waist circumference.
(video games, online gaming) Any item dropped by defeated enemies.
(music) A point in a song, usually electronic styled music such as dubstep, house and trance, where everything is played at once, also known highlight, or climax.
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(US, banking, dated) an unsolicited credit card issue
The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
That which resembles or hangs like a liquid drop: a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, etc.
(architecture) A gutta.
A mechanism for lowering something, such as: a trapdoor; a machine for lowering heavy weights onto a ship's deck; a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet; a curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; etc.
A drop press or drop hammer.
(engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
(nautical) The depth of a square sail; generally applied to the courses only.
To fall in droplets (of a liquid).
* Spenser
To drip (a liquid).
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* Sterne
Generally, to fall (straight down).
(ergative) To let fall; to allow to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).
To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
* Bible, Psalms lxviii. 8
To sink quickly to the ground.
To fall dead, or to fall in death.
* Digby
To come to an end (by not being kept up); to stop.
* 1897 , (Henry James), (What Maisie Knew) :
To mention casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
(slang) To part with or spend (money).
* 1949 , The Atlantian , v 8, Atlanta: United States Penitentiary, p 41:
* 2000 , Lisa Reardon, Blameless: A Novel , Random House, p 221:
To cease concerning oneself over; to have nothing more to do with (a subject, discussion etc.).
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* Thackeray
* Sir Walter Scott
To lessen, decrease, or diminish in value, condition, degree, etc.
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, title= To let (a letter etc.) fall into a postbox; to send (a letter or message).
To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot etc.; to bring down, to shoot down.
* 1846, ed. by G. W. Nickisson, “Elephant-Shooting in Ceylon”, in , vol. XXXIII, no. CXCVII
* 1892 , Alexander A. A. Kinloch, Large Game Shooting in Thibet, the Himalayas, Northern and Central India ,
* 1921 , Daniel Henderson, Boone of the Wilderness ,
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* 1992, Dan Parkinson, Dust on the Wind , page 164
(linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter etc.).
(cricket, of a fielder) To fail to make a catch from a batted ball that would have lead to the batsman being out.
(slang) To swallow (a drug), particularly LSD.
to dispose (of); get rid of; to remove; to lose
to eject; to dismiss; to cease to include, as if on a list.
(slang) To impart.
(transitive, music, colloquial) To release to the public.
(music) To play a portion of music in the manner of a disc jockey.
(intransitive, music, colloquial) To enter public distribution.
(music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
To cancel or end a scheduled event, project or course
(fast food) To cook, especially by deep-frying or grilling.
(of a voice) To lower in timbre, often relating to puberty.
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, title= (of a sound or song) To lower in pitch, tempo, key, or other quality.
(of people) To visit informally; used with in'' or ''by .
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To give birth to.
To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
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To hang lower and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
(uncountable) A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and the presence of flame or smouldering.
(countable) Something that has produced or is capable of producing this chemical reaction, such as a campfire.
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, title= (countable) The often accidental occurrence of fire in a certain place.
(uncountable, alchemy) One of the four basic elements.
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(countable, British) A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
(countable) The elements necessary to start a fire.
(uncountable) The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun.
Strength of passion, whether love or hate.
* Atterbury
Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
* (Alexander Pope)
Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
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(countable) A button (on a joypad, joystick or similar device) usually used to make a video game character fire a weapon.
(lb) To set (something) on fire.
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*:"Then I slipped up again with a box of matches, fired' my heap of paper and rubbish, put the chairs and bedding thereby, led the gas to the affair, by means of an india-rubber tube, and waving a farewell to the room left it for the last time." ¶ "You '''fired''' the house!" exclaimed Kemp. ¶ "' Fired the house. It was the only way to cover my trail—and no doubt it was insured."
*1907 , (Jack London), (The Iron Heel)
*:It was long a question of debate, whether the burning of the South Side ghetto was accidental, or whether it was done by the Mercenaries; but it is definitely settled now that the ghetto was fired by the Mercenaries under orders from their chiefs.
(lb) To heat without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired -in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
(lb) To drive away by setting a fire.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Till my bad angel fire my good one out.
(lb) To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct or poor performance).
*1969 , (Vladimir Nabokov), , Penguin 2011, p.226:
*:The first, obvious choice was hysterical and fantastic Blanche – had there not been her timidity, her fear of being ‘fired ’.
(lb) To shoot (a device that launches a projectile or a pulse of stream of something).
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(lb) To shoot a gun, a cannon or a similar weapon.
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To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
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(lb) To forcibly direct (something).
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To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
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To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
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*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:Love had fired my mind.
To animate; to give life or spirit to.
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To feed or serve the fire of.
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To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:[The sun] fires the proud tops of the eastern pines.
(lb) To cauterize.
To catch fire; to be kindled.
To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
Drop is a synonym of fire.
As nouns the difference between drop and fire
is that drop is a small mass of liquid just large enough to hold its own weight via surface tension, usually one that falls from a source of liquid while fire is the sector of the economy including finance, insurance and real estate businesses.As a verb drop
is to fall in droplets (of a liquid).drop
English
(wikipedia drop)Noun
(en noun)- Put three drops of oil into the mixture.
- On one side of the road was a 50-foot drop .
- That was a long drop , but fortunately I didn't break any bones.
- It moved in surges, like a roller coaster on a series of drops and high-banked turns.
- I left the plans at the drop , like you asked.
- The delivery driver has to make three more drops before lunch.
- He usually enjoys a drop after dinner.
- It doesn't matter where you're from; anyone who enjoys the drop is a friend of mine.
- Yet another drop for the Tiger tight end.
- The Tiger quarterback took a one-step drop , expecting his tight end to be open.
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Derived terms
* dropless * droplike * raindropVerb
(dropp)- The kindly dew drops from the higher tree, / And wets the little plants that lowly dwell.
- The trees drop balsam.
- The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.
- The heavens dropped at the presence of God.
- Nothing, says Seneca, so soon reconciles us to the thoughts of our own death, as the prospect of one friend after another dropping round us.
- Maisie's faith in Mrs. Wix for instance had suffered no lapse from the fact that all communication with her had temporarily dropped .
- The question was: Who put the most in the collection box? The wealthy guy, who dropped a “C” note, or the tattered old dame who parted with her last tarnished penny.
- I forked over the $19.25. I was in no position to be dropping twenties like gumdrops but I deserved something good from this crappy morning.
- They suddenly drop't the pursuit.
- that astonishing ease with which fine ladies drop you and pick you up again
- The connection had been dropped many years.
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: ...if the first shot does not drop him, and he rushes on, the second will be a very hurried and most likely ineffectual one...
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...with a single shot he dropped him like a master of the art.
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- As with all other animals, a shot behind the shoulder is the most likely to drop the beast on the spot
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- He dropped the beast with a bullet in its heart.
- The piano player's out, the music stopped / His boy had beef, and he got dropped ...
- With a quick clench of the fist on Joey's throat, Bodie dropped him. The man crumpled to the ground
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- to drop a lamb
- their waved coats dropped with gold
Derived terms
(terms derived from the noun or verb "drop") * a drop in the bucket * air-drop * at the drop of a hat * black drop effect * cough drop * dewdrop * drop a bollock * drop a bomb * drop a dime * drop a line * drop-add form * drop back, drop-back * drop-ball * drop by * drop cap * drop cloth * drop curtain * drop dead, drop-dead * drop-down * drop goal * drop in, drop-in * drop kerb * drop kick, drop-kicker * drop-leaf table * droplet * drop like flies * drop off, dropoff, drop-off * drop out, dropout, drop-out * dropper * droppings * drop scene * drop scone * drop shot * drop the gloves * drop the ball * drop trou * eye-drop * get the drop on * name-drop, name-dropping * one drop * one-drop rule * the penny drops * Turkey drop * raindrop * so quiet one can hear a pin drop * teardrop * waiting for the other shoe to dropfire
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Noun
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- He had fire in his temper.
- And bless their critic with a poet's fire .
- Stars, hide your fires .
- As in a zodiac representing the heavenly fires .
Derived terms
* all-fire * add fuel to the fire * back fire * balefire * ball of fire * baptism of fire * bonfire * brush-fire * brush fire * bushfire * campfire * catch fire * ceasefire * covering fire * electric fire * fiery * fight fire with fire * fire alarm * fire and brimstone * fire away * firearm * fireball * fire bay * fire beater * fireblast * firebolt * firebomb * firebrand * firebreak * fire brigade * firebug * fireclay * fire company * firecracker * fire department * firedog * fire drill * fire eater * fire engine * fire escape * fire exit * fire extinguisher * fire-fight * firefight * firefighter * fire flapper * firefly * fireguard * fire hose * firehouse * fire hydrant * fire in the belly * firelighter * fireman * fireplace * fireplug * fireproof * fire resistant * fire retardant * fireshine * fire ship * fire station * fireside * fire sign * fire-starter * fire step * firestop * fire swab * fire swatter * fire teaser * fire trench * fire truck * fire up * firewire * firewoman * firewood * firework * forest fire * friendly fire * gas fire * grassfire * grass fire * Greek fire * hang fire * heap coals on fire * hold your fire * hold someone's feet to the fire * irons in the fire * light someone's fire * no smoke without fire * on fire * open fire * ordeal of fire * play with fire * Promethean fire * pull out of the fire * rapid fire * real fire * St Anthony's fire * St Elmo's fire * trial by fireVerb
(fir)Wigan 2-2 Arsenal, passage=Andrey Arshavin equalised with a superb volley into the corner before Nicklas Bendtner coolly fired Arsenal in front.}}