dropper

/ˈdrɒpə/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈdrɒpə/

dropper

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Final r is pronounced in US English

drop - per -> dropper

Myanmar meaning

(n) (ဆေး၊ အရည်စသည်) အစက်ချဖန်ပြွန်။

Full entry

drop /drɒp/ n

၁။ [C] (ရေ၊ အရည်) အစက်အပေါက်။
drops of rain/dew/sweat/condensation ❍ tear-drops.
၂။ [C esp sing ] တစ်စက်။ တစ်ပေါက်။ အနည်းငယ်။
Could I have a drop more milk in my coffee, please? ❍ I haven't touched a drop (ie drunk any alcohol) all day.
၃။ drops [pl] (နား၊ နှာခေါင်း၊ မျက်စိ) အစက်ချခတ်ဆေး။
Take the drops three times a day.
၄။ [sing] အလျော့။ အကျ။ a drop in prices/temperature ❍ a big drop in the number of people out of work.
၅။ [sing] အနက်။ အစောက်။
There was a sheer drop of five hundred feet to the rocks below.
၆။ [C] လေယာဉ်၊ ယာဉ်ပေါ်မှချပေးခြင်း။
Drops of supplies are being made to villages still cut off by the snow.
၇။ [C] သကြားလုံး။ pear drops.
v (-pp- )
၁။ ကျသည်။ လိမ့်ကျသည်။ လွတ်ကျသည်။ The bottle dropped and broke. ❍ The climber slipped and dropped to his death. ❍ Be careful not to drop that plate on the stone floor.
၂။ ချသည်။ ချပေးသည်။
She dropped to safety from the burning building. ❍ He staggered in and dropped into a chair. ဒယိမ်းဒယိုင်နဲ့ ဝင်လာပြီး ကုလားထိုင် ပေါ် အရုပ်ကြိုးပြတ် ပုံကျသွားတယ်။ ❍ Medical supplies are being dropped to the stricken area. ❍ He dropped his trousers (ie undid them and let them fall).
၃။ အမောဆို့၍ ဗိုင်းခနဲ လဲကျသည်။ I feel ready to drop (ie very tired). ❍ She expects everyone to work till they drop.
၄။ ကျဆင်းသည်။ လျော့ကျသည်။ The temperature/wind/water level/has dropped considerably. ❍ His voice dropped to a whisper. ❍ The rate of inflation seems set to drop for the third month in succession. ❍ The Dutch team have dropped to fifth place. ❍ She dropped her eyes မျက်လွှာချသည်။
၅။ မတ်စောက်စွာ နိမ့်ဆင်းသွားသည်။ The ground drops sharply (away) (to the sea).
၆။ ~ sb/sth (off) ဆင်းရန် ကားရပ်ပေးသည်။ ချပေးသည်။ Could you drop me (off) near the post office?
၇။ (infml ) စာ ထည့်သည်၊ ပို့သည်။ drop sb a postcard.
၈။ ~ sb/sth (from sth ) ကျန်ခဲ့သည်။ ချန်ခဲ့သည်။ ဖြုတ်ထားခဲ့သည်။ She's been dropped from the team because of injury. ❍ Many dated expressions are being dropped from the new dictionary.
၉။ (က) အဝင်အထွက်၊ အဆက်အဆံ ပြတ်တောက်သည်။ She's dropped most of her old friends—or they've dropped her!
(ခ) ရပ်ဆိုင်းသည်။ ရုပ်သိမ်းသည်။ ဘေးချိတ်ထားသည်။ Drop everything and come at once! ❍ Let's drop the formalities—please call me Mike. ❍ The police decided to drop the charges against her. ❍ Look, can we just drop the subject?
❏ at the drop of a hat [IDM ]မဆိုင်းမတွ။ ချက်ချင်း။ အကြောင်းမည်မည်ရရမရှိဘဲ။ You can't expect me to move my home at the drop of a hat.
❏ drop one's aitches [IDM ] စကားလုံးအစရှိ h သံမပါဘဲ ပြောသည်။ (ဗြိတိန်တွင် ယင်းသို့ ပြောတတ်သူကို အောက်တန်းလွှာ ဟု ယူဆသည်။ )
❏ drop back; drop behind (sb) [PHRV ] နောက်ကျန် နေသည်။ နောက်ချန်နေသည်။ We cannot afford to drop behind our competitors.
❏ drop a brick/clanger [IDM ] (Brit infml ) မသင့်သည်ကို အမှတ်တမဲ့ ပြောမိ၊ လုပ်မိသည်။
❏ drop by/in/over/round; drop in on sb; drop into sth [PHRV ] ကြုံခိုက်ဝင်သည်။ ဝင်လည် သည်။ လှည့်ဝင်သည်။ Drop round some time. ❍ I thought I'd drop in on you while I was passing. ❍ Sorry we're late—we dropped into the pub on the way. ❍ VISIT
❏ drop dead [IDM ]
၁။ (infml ) တုံးခနဲ လဲသေသည်။
၂။ (sl ) (မနှောင့်ယှက်ရန် ဝင်မစွက်ရန် ရင့်ရင့်သီးသီး ပြောသောစကား)။ လဲသေလိုက်။ သေလိုက်ပါလား။
❏ drop a hint (to sb)/drop sb a hint [IDM ] အရိပ်အမြွက် ပြောသည်၊ ပြသည်။
❏ (only) a drop in the bucket/ocean [IDM ] နှမ်း တစ်စေ့နှင့်ဆီမဖြစ်။ ဆင့်ပါးစပ် နှမ်းပက်သလို။ Aid to the Third World is at present little more than a drop in the ocean.
❏ drop sb in it [IDM ] (sl ) ကသိကအောက် ဖြစ်စေသည်။ မျက်နှာပူစေသည်။
❏ drop sb a line [IDM ] စာကလေးတစ်ကြောင်း နှစ်ကြောင်း ရေး(ပို့)သည်။ Drop me a line to say when you're coming.
❏ drop names [IDM ] (infml ) လူအထင်ကြီးအောင် နာမည်ကြီးပုဂ္ဂိုလ်များအမည်ကို ထည့်ပြောသည်။ See also NAME-DROPPING
❏ drop off [PHRV ] (infml )
၁။ အိပ်ပျော်သွားသည်။ I dropped off and missed the end of the film.
၂။ လျော့နည်းသွားသည်။ Traffic in the town has dropped off since the bypass opened.
❏ drop out (of sth) [PHRV ]
၁။ ထွက်သည်။ နုတ်ထွက်သည်။ မသုံးတော့။ drop out of politics ❍ a word that is dropping out of use.
၂။ (ကျောင်းမှ) ပညာတစ်ပိုင်းတစ်စနှင့်ထွက်သည်။ She started doing an engineering degree but dropped out after only a year.
၃။ မိမိအသိုင်းအဝိုင်းမှ ဖယ်ခွာသည်။
❏ drop-out n ပညာတစ်ပိုင်းတစ်စနှင့် ထွက်လာသူ။ ကိုယ့် အသိုင်းအဝိုင်းကို စွန့်ခွာလာသူ။ a college drop-out ❍ a university with a high drop-out rate.
❏ dropper n (ဆေး၊ အရည်စသည်) အစက်ချဖန်ပြွန်။
❏ droppings n [pl] တိရစ္ဆာန်ချေး။
❏ drop a stitch [IDM ] နှစ်ချောင်းထိုး ထိုးရာတွင် အပင်ကျွတ် သည်၊ ချွတ်သည်။
❏ let sb/sth drop [IDM ] ရပ်တန်းကရပ်သည်၊ ရပ်စေသည်။ I suggest we let the matter drop.

More examples

[drop something off something] : The children were dropping stones off the bridge.
[drop something into something] : He dropped a few coins into my hand.
Lucas dropped the ball.
I dropped my keys down the back of the sofa.
[drop something onto/over something] : You’ve dropped crumbs all over the floor.
Everyone cheered as the ball dropped into the hole.
She took off her jacket and let it drop to the floor.
[drop into/to/down] : Teresa dropped into the chair, exhausted.
Doyle dropped to a crouch and peered in through the letterbox.
He dropped his head into his hands and sighed.
We had to drop the price of our house to sell it.
Be sure to drop your speed in wet weather.
Infant mortality has dropped dramatically in the last 50 years.
[drop from/to] : PCM’s share value dropped to 750 pence.
[drop below] : In winter the temperature often drops below freezing.
[drop by] : European sales have dropped by over 30%.
I’m driving into town – can I drop you somewhere?
[drop someone at/in] : Can you drop me at the corner of the street?
Can you drop these magazines at Nora’s house on your way home?
The UN is trying to drop supplies into the area.
The ad was dropped after complaints from the public.
[drop the act] : Oh, drop the innocent act!
The charges against him were dropped due to insufficient evidence.
Her family wanted her to drop the case.

Synonyms

fall, go down, plunge, plummet, crash, jump down, dive, slump, decline, abandon, abandon; ignore, abort, abyss, adios, be alienated from, bead, bit, bleed, break with, bring down, bubble, call off, cancel, cast off, cave in, cease, chasm, collapse, crumb, cut, cut out, dab, dash, declivity, decrease, deepness, depress, depth, descend, descent, desert, deterioration, dewdrop, dip, discontinue, dismiss, disown, distill, ditch, divorce, downfall, downslide, downswing, downtrend, downturn, drain, drib, dribble, driblet, drip, droplet, duck, dump, dust off, eighty-six, emanate, end, fall-off, falling off, fell, floor, flop, forfeit, forget about, forsake, give up, globule, ground, hail, have done with, interrupt, iota, jilt, keel over, kick, knock, landslide, lapse, leak, leave, leave out, let fall, let go, loosen, lose, lower, lowering, molecule, morsel, nip, nose-dive, ooze, ounce, part from, part with, particle, pearl, percolate, pinch, pitch, plump, precipice, precipitate, precipitation, quit, reduction, reject, release, relinquish, remit, renounce, repudiate, resign, sacrifice, sag, scratch, scrub, seep, separate, shake, shed, shelve, shoot, sink, sip, slide, slip, slope, smidgen, snow, speck, splash, spot, stop, taste, tear, teardrop, terminate, throw down, throw over, topple, trace, trickle, trill, tumble, unload, upset, wash out, waste one, wipe out

Antonyms

accept, allow, approve, ascend, ascent, begin, betterment, build, compliment, continue, do, downpour, glob, go, go up, hold, improvement, incline, increase, initiate, keep, lot, maintain, marry, mound, mount, mountain, perfection, pour, praise, pursue, raise, rise, schedule, set up, start, stay, success, take up