Drop vs Quite - 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).
* Creech
* 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.).
* S. Sharp
* 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 ,
* 1985 , (Beastie Boys), :
* 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.
* Milton
To hang lower and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
(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.
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#*: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.
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#*:“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?
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To a moderate extent or degree; somewhat, rather.
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)- 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