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DROPPING

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coming down freely under the influence of gravity

Example:

falling rain

Synonyms:

dropping; falling

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

descending (coming down or downward)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb drop

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 Context examples: 

In addition to high blood sugar levels, researchers found that blood sugar levels often varied, spiking too high and dropping too low.

(Chronic high blood sugar may be detrimental to the developing brain of young children, NIH)

Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS) Extremity Movements, Lower (legs, knees, ankles, toes), e.g., lateral knee movement, foot tapping, heel dropping, foot squirming, inversion and eversion of foot.

(AIMS - Lower Extremities, NCI Thesaurus)

You are the same Jo still, dropping tears about one minute, and laughing the next.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Other ape-men in the trees above us hurled down stones and logs of wood, occasionally dropping bodily on to our ranks and fighting furiously until they were felled.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, then, he said, I yield; if not to your earnestness, to your perseverance: as stone is worn by continual dropping.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When he grew excited or enthusiastic, however, he dropped back into the old slurring and the dropping of final consonants.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

These treatments would need to allow FUS to continue moving between safe reversible states (liquid droplets and reversible gels) but prevent FUS from dropping into the dense, irreversible gel states that cause disease.

(Mechanism behind neuron death in motor neurone disease and frontotemporal dementia discovered, University of Cambridge)

A similar process occurred the same year in Bulgaria, PGR dropping from -0.51% to -3.17%, and one year earlier in Poland, where PGR dropped from -0.03% in 2000 to -1.03% in 2001.

(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)

Then he advanced to the stockade, threw over his crutch, got a leg up, and with great vigour and skill succeeded in surmounting the fence and dropping safely to the other side.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Device problems caused by the sudden violent blow or collision to the whole device (e.g. by dropping).

(Device Mechanical Shock Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)