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drop | quite |

As verbs the difference between drop and quite

is that drop is to fall in droplets (of a liquid) while quite is .

As a noun 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.

drop

English

(wikipedia drop)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • Put three drops of oil into the mixture.
  • The space or distance below a cliff or other high position into which someone or something could fall.
  • On one side of the road was a 50-foot drop .
  • A fall, descent; an act of dropping.
  • That was a long drop , but fortunately I didn't break any bones.
  • * '>citation
  • It moved in surges, like a roller coaster on a series of drops and high-banked turns.
  • A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, sometimes associated with criminal activity; a drop-off point.
  • I left the plans at the drop , like you asked.
  • An instance of dropping supplies or making a delivery, sometimes associated with delivery of supplies by parachute.
  • The delivery driver has to make three more drops before lunch.
  • (chiefly, British) a small amount of an alcoholic beverage; or when used with the definite article (the drop ), alcoholic spirits in general.
  • 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.
  • (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.
  • Yet another drop for the Tiger tight end.
  • (American football) Short for drop-back or drop back.
  • The Tiger quarterback took a one-step drop , expecting his tight end to be open.
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=June 26 , author=Genevieve Koski , title=Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM accouterments, seeking a comfortable middle ground where Bieber’s impressively refined pop-R&B croon can rub up on techno blasts and garish dubstep drops (and occasionally grind on some AutoTune, not necessarily because it needs it, but because a certain amount of robo-voice is expected these days).}}
  • (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.
  • Derived terms

    * dropless * droplike * raindrop

    Verb

    (dropp)
  • To fall in droplets (of a liquid).
  • * Spenser
  • The kindly dew drops from the higher tree, / And wets the little plants that lowly dwell.
  • To drip (a liquid).
  • * Creech
  • The trees drop balsam.
  • * Sterne
  • The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.
  • 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
  • The heavens dropped at the presence of God.
  • To sink quickly to the ground.
  • To fall dead, or to fall in death.
  • * Digby
  • 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.
  • To come to an end (by not being kept up); to stop.
  • * 1897 , (Henry James), (What Maisie Knew) :
  • Maisie's faith in Mrs. Wix for instance had suffered no lapse from the fact that all communication with her had temporarily dropped .
  • 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:
  • 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.
  • * 2000 , Lisa Reardon, Blameless: A Novel , Random House, p 221:
  • 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.
  • To cease concerning oneself over; to have nothing more to do with (a subject, discussion etc.).
  • * S. Sharp
  • They suddenly drop't the pursuit.
  • * Thackeray
  • that astonishing ease with which fine ladies drop you and pick you up again
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • The connection had been dropped many years.
  • To lessen, decrease, or diminish in value, condition, degree, etc.
  • * , chapter=17
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.}}
  • 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
  • page 562: ...if the first shot does not drop him, and he rushes on, the second will be a very hurried and most likely ineffectual one...
    page 568 ...with a single shot he dropped him like a master of the art.
  • * 1892 , Alexander A. A. Kinloch, Large Game Shooting in Thibet, the Himalayas, Northern and Central India , page 126
  • As with all other animals, a shot behind the shoulder is the most likely to drop the beast on the spot
  • * 1921 , Daniel Henderson, Boone of the Wilderness , page 54
  • He dropped the beast with a bullet in its heart.
  • * 1985 , (Beastie Boys), :
  • The piano player's out, the music stopped / His boy had beef, and he got dropped ...
  • * 1992, Dan Parkinson, Dust on the Wind , page 164
  • With a quick clench of the fist on Joey's throat, Bodie dropped him. The man crumpled to the ground
  • (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.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 26, author=Genevieve Koski, work=The Onion AV Club
  • , title= Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe , passage=The 18-year-old Bieber can’t quite pull off the “adult” thing just yet: His voice may have dropped a bit since the days of “Baby,” but it still mostly registers as “angelic,” and veers toward a pubescent whine at times. }}
  • (of a sound or song) To lower in pitch, tempo, key, or other quality.
  • (of people) To visit informally; used with in'' or ''by .
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}
  • To give birth to.
  • to drop a lamb
  • To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
  • * Milton
  • their waved coats dropped with gold
  • To hang lower and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
  • 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 drop

    quite

    English

    Alternative forms

    * quight (obsolete)

    Etymology 1

    A development of (quit), influence by (etyl) quite.

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (lb) To the greatest extent or degree; completely, entirely.
  • #With verbs, especially past participles.
  • #*, Book I:
  • #*:Thus when they had the witch disrobed quight , / And all her filthy feature open showne, / They let her goe at will, and wander wayes vnknowne.
  • #*2005 , Adrian Searle, The Guardian , 4 October:
  • #*:Nobuyoshi Araki has been called a monster, a pornographer and a genius - and the photographer quite agrees.
  • #With prepositional phrases and spatial adverbs.
  • #*1891 , (Thomas Nelson Page), On Newfound River :
  • #*:Margaret passed quite through the pines, and reached the opening beyond which was what was once the yard, but was now, except for a strip of flower-border and turf which showed care, simply a tangle of bushes and briars.
  • #*2010 , Joanna Briscoe, The Guardian , 30 October:
  • #*:Religion and parochial etiquette are probed to reveal unhealthy, and sometimes shockingly violent, internal desires quite at odds with the surface life of a town in which tolerance is preached.
  • #With predicative adjectives.
  • #*1914 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (The Son of Tarzan) :
  • #*:El Adrea was quite dead. No more will he slink silently upon his unsuspecting prey.
  • #*:
  • #*:In Lejeuneaceae vegetative branches normally originate from the basiscopic basal portion of a lateral segment half, as in the Radulaceae, and the associated leaves, therefore, are quite unmodified.
  • #With attributive adjectives, following an (especially indefinite) article; chiefly as expressing contrast, difference etc.
  • #*2003 , (Richard Dawkins), A Devil's Chaplain :
  • #*:When I warned him that his words might be offensive to identical twins, he said that identical twins were a quite different case.
  • #*2011 , Peter Preston, The Observer , 18 September:
  • #*:Create a new, quite separate, private company – say Murdoch Newspaper Holdings – and give it all, or most of, the papers that News Corp owns.
  • #Preceding nouns introduced by the indefinite article. Chiefly in negative constructions.
  • #*1791 , (James Boswell), (Life of Samuel Johnson) :
  • #*:I ventured to hint that he was not quite a fair judge, as Churchill had attacked him violently.
  • #*1920 , (John Galsworthy), (In Chancery) :
  • #*:And with a prolonged sound, not quite' a sniff and not ' quite a snort, he trod on Euphemia's toe, and went out, leaving a sensation and a faint scent of barley?sugar behind him.
  • #With adverbs of manner.
  • #*2009 , John F. Schmutz, The Battle of the Crater: A complete history :
  • #*:However, the proceedings were quite carefully orchestrated to produce what seemed to be a predetermined outcome.
  • #*2011 , Bob Burgess, The Guardian , 18 October:
  • #*:Higher education institutions in the UK are, quite rightly, largely autonomous.
  • (lb) In a fully justified sense; truly, perfectly, actually.
  • #Coming before the indefinite article and an attributive adjective. (Now largely merged with moderative senses, below.)
  • #*1898 , (Charles Gavrice), Nell of Shorne Mills :
  • #*:"My little plot has been rather successful, after all, hasn't it?" "Quite a perfect success," said Drake.
  • #*2001 , Paul Brown, The Guardian , 7 February:
  • #*:While the government claims to lead the world with its plans to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the figures tell quite a different story.
  • #With plain adjectives, past participles, and adverbs.
  • #*
  • #*:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
  • #*2010 , Dave Hill, The Guardian , 5 November:
  • #*:London Underground is quite unique in how many front line staff it has, as anyone who has travelled on the Paris Metro or New York Subway will testify.
  • #Coming before the definite article and an attributive superlative.
  • #*1910 , ‘(Saki)’, "The Soul of Laploshka", Reginald in Russia :
  • #*:Laploshka was one of the meanest men I have ever met, and quite one of the most entertaining.
  • #*1923 , "The New Pictures", Time , 8 October:
  • #*:Scaramouche has already been greeted as the finest French Revolution yet brought to the screen-and even if you are a little weary of seeing a strongly American band of sans-culottes demolish a pasteboard Paris, you should not miss Scaramouche, for it is quite the best thing Rex Ingram has done since The Four Horsemen.
  • #Before a noun preceded by an indefinite article; now often with ironic implications that the noun in question is particularly noteworthy or remarkable.
  • #*1830 , Senate debate, 15 April:
  • #*:To debauch the Indians with rum and cheat them of their land was quite a Government affair, and not at all criminal; but to use rum to cheat them of their peltry, was an abomination in the sight of the law.
  • #*2011 , Gilbert Morris, The Crossing :
  • #*:“Looks like you and Clay had quite a party,” she said with a glimmer in her dark blue eyes.
  • #Before a noun preceded by the definite article.
  • #*1871 , (Anthony Trollope), (The Eustace Diamonds) :
  • #*:It is quite the proper thing for a lady to be on intimate, and even on affectionate, terms with her favourite clergyman, and Lizzie certainly had intercourse with no clergyman who was a greater favourite with her than Mr. Emilius.
  • #*2006 , Sherman Alexie, "When the story stolen is your own", Time , 6 February:
  • #*:His memoir features a child named Tommy Nothing Fancy who suffers from and dies of a seizure disorder. Quite the coincidence, don't you think?
  • #
  • To a moderate extent or degree; somewhat, rather.
  • Usage notes
    * This is a non-descriptive qualifier'', similar to fairly and rather and somewhat. Used where a plain adjective needs to be modified, but cannot be qualified. When spoken, the meaning can vary with the tone of voice and stress. ''He was quite big can mean anything from "not exactly small" to "almost huge".
    Synonyms
    * absolutely, fully, thoroughly, totally, utterly
    Antonyms
    * (to a great extent) slightly
    Derived terms
    * quite a few

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • Indicates agreement; "exactly so".
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) quite.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (bullfighting) A series of passes made with the cape to distract the bull.
  • Statistics

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