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Lana Turner was adorable and funny. Jimmy Stewart was such a nice person. I quickly realized that if you're not a nice person, you're not going to last in this business. I mean, once your box office starts to drop off, like Veronica Lake, they'll get rid of you fast.
Robert Osborne

Meaning of "drop off" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DROP OFF

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DROP OFF

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Drop off is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb drop off in English.

WHAT DOES DROP OFF MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of drop off in the English dictionary

The first definition of drop off in the dictionary is to grow smaller or less; decline. Other definition of drop off is to allow to alight; set down. Drop off is also to fall asleep.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DROP OFF

PRESENT

Present
I drop off
you drop off
he/she/it drops off
we drop off
you drop off
they drop off
Present continuous
I am dropping off
you are dropping off
he/she/it is dropping off
we are dropping off
you are dropping off
they are dropping off
Present perfect
I have dropped off
you have dropped off
he/she/it has dropped off
we have dropped off
you have dropped off
they have dropped off
Present perfect continuous
I have been dropping off
you have been dropping off
he/she/it has been dropping off
we have been dropping off
you have been dropping off
they have been dropping off
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I dropped off
you dropped off
he/she/it dropped off
we dropped off
you dropped off
they dropped off
Past continuous
I was dropping off
you were dropping off
he/she/it was dropping off
we were dropping off
you were dropping off
they were dropping off
Past perfect
I had dropped off
you had dropped off
he/she/it had dropped off
we had dropped off
you had dropped off
they had dropped off
Past perfect continuous
I had been dropping off
you had been dropping off
he/she/it had been dropping off
we had been dropping off
you had been dropping off
they had been dropping off
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will drop off
you will drop off
he/she/it will drop off
we will drop off
you will drop off
they will drop off
Future continuous
I will be dropping off
you will be dropping off
he/she/it will be dropping off
we will be dropping off
you will be dropping off
they will be dropping off
Future perfect
I will have dropped off
you will have dropped off
he/she/it will have dropped off
we will have dropped off
you will have dropped off
they will have dropped off
Future perfect continuous
I will have been dropping off
you will have been dropping off
he/she/it will have been dropping off
we will have been dropping off
you will have been dropping off
they will have been dropping off
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would drop off
you would drop off
he/she/it would drop off
we would drop off
you would drop off
they would drop off
Conditional continuous
I would be dropping off
you would be dropping off
he/she/it would be dropping off
we would be dropping off
you would be dropping off
they would be dropping off
Conditional perfect
I would have drop off
you would have drop off
he/she/it would have drop off
we would have drop off
you would have drop off
they would have drop off
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been dropping off
you would have been dropping off
he/she/it would have been dropping off
we would have been dropping off
you would have been dropping off
they would have been dropping off
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you drop off
we let´s drop off
you drop off
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to drop off
Past participle
dropped off
Present Participle
dropping off
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DROP OFF

drop bear
drop cannon
drop cloth
drop curtain
drop dead!
drop forge
drop goal
drop hammer
drop handlebars
drop in
drop in someone´s lap
drop kick
drop leaf
drop lock
drop one´s bundle
drop scone
drop shipment
drop shot
drop tank
drop zone

WORDS THAT END LIKE DROP OFF

better off
bump off
cop off
cut off
damp off
day off
get off
hold off
keep off
kick off
on and off
pop off
rip off
show off
skip off
sleep off
stop off
take off
top off
turn off

Synonyms and antonyms of drop off in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DROP OFF»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «drop off» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of drop off

Translation of «drop off» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DROP OFF

Find out the translation of drop off to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of drop off from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «drop off» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

dejar
570 millions of speakers

English

drop off
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

छोड़
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غلبه النعاس
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

понизиться
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cair fora
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ড্রপ বন্ধ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

déposer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

turunkan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

absetzen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

落ちる
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

내려
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

ngeterke
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thả ra
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விட்டுவிடு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खाली सांडले
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bırakmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lasciare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zasnąć
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

понизитися
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

drop off
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

drop off
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

af te laai
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lämning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

frafalt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of drop off

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DROP OFF»

The term «drop off» is very widely used and occupies the 23.251 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DROP OFF» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «drop off» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «drop off» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about drop off

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9 QUOTES WITH «DROP OFF»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word drop off.
1
Elias Canetti
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
2
Harvey V. Fineberg
Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation. From an evolutionary point of view, you and I are like the booster rockets designed to send the genetic payload into the next level of orbit and then drop off into the sea.
3
Gilbert Highet
Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.
4
Jerry Lawler
It's almost like while you are working for the WWF everything is fine and good, but if you are no longer employed by them they want you to just drop off the face of the earth and it's like you never existed.
5
Joni Mitchell
I thrive on change. That's probably why my chord changes are weird, because chords depict emotions. They'll be going along on one key and I'll drop off a cliff, and suddenly they will go into a whole other key signature. That will drive some people crazy, but that's how my life is.
6
Graeme Murphy
I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms that are ready to flower; there are always some ready to drop off too.
7
Patricia Norris
I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
8
Robert Osborne
Lana Turner was adorable and funny. Jimmy Stewart was such a nice person. I quickly realized that if you're not a nice person, you're not going to last in this business. I mean, once your box office starts to drop off, like Veronica Lake, they'll get rid of you fast.
9
Shane Smith
Gen Y consume most of their media online and mobile. Gen Y, as the Baby Boomers drop off, are the largest cohort with the largest amount of money - despite the fact that half of them are unemployed.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DROP OFF»

Discover the use of drop off in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to drop off and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Drop Off
Juanita L. Heying. The. Drop. off. The Drop Off Copyright © 2008 by Juanita L. Heying.
Juanita L. Heying, 2009
2
A Guidebook for Implementing Curbside and Drop-Off Used ...
Proper drop-off site management should include used oil acceptance protocols. The primary purpose for such protocols is contamination prevention and the maintenance of site cleanliness. The degree of oversight for accepting used oil varies ...
‎1992
3
The Effects of Dividend Taxes on Equity Prices: A ...
i.e. just regressing the drop-off ratio on a constant and a post reform dummy: this does not affect the results for the sample of large firms. For the full sample, this reduces the estimated fall in the mean drop-off ratio by half. The estimated fall in  ...
Stephen Bond, Michael P. Devereux, Alexander Klemm, 2007
4
Introduction to AI Robotics
LINEAR DROP OFF EXPONENTIAL DROP OFF an observer would see a robot behave in that field: if the robot is far away from the object, it will turn and move quickly towards it, then slow up to keep from overshooting and hitting the object.
Robin Murphy, 2000
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Computational Structural Mechanics
B. VARUGHESEandA. MUKHERJEE Department of Civil Engg., Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. ABSTRACT A set of parametric studies have been carried out to formulate guidelines for the design of ply drop-off in layered composites.
6
Why America Stopped Voting: The Decline of Participatory ...
Where it was harder to vote an incomplete ballot than a complete one, as it was during much of the nineteenth century, roll-off is not a useful indicator of voter marginality.3 Drop-Off Drop-off is an index of the percentage of actual voters who are ...
Mark Lawrence Kornbluh, 2000
7
Mountain Bike Like a Champion
Your goal is to make the bike smoothly follow the contour of the drop-off. As the front wheel lands and rolls, bring your weight to the center again to help the rear wheel drop. You can then resume your normal riding position. When you do it ...
Ned Overend, 1999
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The Ultimate Phrasal Verb Book
Infinitive 1 . drop ... off p.v. When you take things or people to another place and leave them there, you drop them off. Can you drop me off at the train station on your way to work? Luis dropped off his laundry at the cleaners. drop-off n.
Carl W. Hart, 2009
9
Composting of yard trimmings and municipal solid waste
Collection can occur at curbside, where the municipality picks up the materials directly from household or through drop-off sites, where residents and commercial producers deliver their com- postable material to a designated site.
United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response
10
Natural Resources for the 21st Century
Recycle America establishes drop-off centers near regular garbage bins for apartment dwellers to drop off their recyclables. In Seattle, officials are considering revising the building codes to require that all new multi-unit buildings incorporate a ...
R. Neil Sampson, Dwight Hair, 1990

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DROP OFF»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term drop off is used in the context of the following news items.
1
New Rock Hill rules mean your drop-off clothes bin could be moving …
You can see them in almost any large parking lot around town: bins inviting you to drop off your old clothes to help somebody else in need. «The Herald, Jul 15»
2
Drop off unwanted prescription drugs
The Florence Police Department now has two prescription drug drop boxes. You can drop off any unused, expired, or unwanted used ... «TriValley Central, Jul 15»
3
eBay pilots Argos drop off service in Portsmouth, Southampton …
As we reported before, eBay is trialling an extension of their Click & Collect partnership with Argos by offering a drop off service too where ... «TameBay, Jul 15»
4
New Duke QB Thomas Sirk doesn't expect Blue Devils to drop off
The Duke football biography is still slim on success stories and winning seasons, which helps to breed the skepticism regarding the Blue ... «ESPN, Jul 15»
5
Drop-off site closing Tuesday; cleanup continues
... Friday and 8 a.m. to noon Saturday. Residents may also drop off tree limbs, branches and debris at Foster Park West until 10 a.m. Tuesday. «Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, Jul 15»
6
Drug drop off box at Lawrence PD
LAWRENCE — Acting police Chief James Fitzpatrick says about 20 pounds of prescription drugs have been collected since the installation of a ... «Eagle-Tribune, Jul 15»
7
Police Department Installs 24-Hour Drug Drop Off Kiosk in Lawrence
LAWRENCE – Chief James Fitzpatrick is pleased to report that the police department has installed a safe and secure drug drop off kiosk in ... «NoBo Magazine, Jul 15»
8
Jury rejects ex-sergeant's charges in gun drop-off
Ruff testified this week that he went in August to 35th District headquarters in Ogontz - the closest station to his house - to drop off three guns, ... «Philly.com, Jul 15»
9
Medina County commissioners move forward with drop-off recycling …
MEDINA, Ohio – Starting later this month, residents will be able to drop off recyclables in bins at 54 locations scattered throughout Medina ... «cleveland.com, Jul 15»
10
Customers can no longer drop off bill at office at Fairpoint
A customer uses the drive-up window to conduct business at Fairpoint Communications in Ellensburg, Tuesday, June 30, 2015. Tuesday was ... «Daily Record, Jul 15»

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