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gravity's favorite verb, the moment before the splash and after the cliff
means To let something fall, or the small rounded bit of liquid that falls; also a sudden decrease or a delivery left behind.
from From Old English 'dropa,' a drop of liquid, with its verb 'droppian,' to fall in drops — part of a wide Germanic family (compare Dutch 'drop' and German 'Tropfen'). The sense started watery and tiny, then spread outward: prices drop, voices drop, and parachutists are dropped, each borrowing the original image of something simply giving way to gravity.
- surface tension
- makes a falling drop pull itself into a sphere
- crown splash
- a milk drop blooms into a tiny royal crown
- the beat
- electronic music's drop is engineered anticipation, then release
- terminal speed
- raindrops cap around 20 mph, never faster
- mic drop
- the gesture of leaving an argument already won
hiroshima atomic bombing — us dropped little boy on august 6, 1945, killing ~70,000 people instantly
operation market garden — allied paratroopers dropped over netherlands, september 1944, largest airborne operation
supply drops vietnam war — us military dropped supplies to isolated firebase khe sanh under siege, 1968