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Meaning of "dropfly" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DROPFLY

dropfly  [ˈdrɒpˌflaɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DROPFLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dropfly is 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.

WHAT DOES DROPFLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of dropfly in the English dictionary

The definition of dropfly in the dictionary is an artificial fly usually used as an extra fly, a dropper.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DROPFLY


blackfly
ˈblækˌflaɪ
blowfly
ˈbləʊˌflaɪ
botfly
ˈbɒtˌflaɪ
butterfly
ˈbʌtəˌflaɪ
catchfly
ˈkætʃˌflaɪ
damselfly
ˈdæmzəlˌflaɪ
dayfly
ˈdeɪˌflaɪ
dragonfly
ˈdræɡənˌflaɪ
firefly
ˈfaɪəˌflaɪ
gadfly
ˈɡædˌflaɪ
glowfly
ˈɡləʊˌflaɪ
greenfly
ˈɡriːnˌflaɪ
horsefly
ˈhɔːsˌflaɪ
housefly
ˈhaʊsˌflaɪ
mayfly
ˈmeɪˌflaɪ
sandfly
ˈsændˌflaɪ
sawfly
ˈsɔːˌflaɪ
stonefly
ˈstəʊnˌflaɪ
test-fly
ˈtɛstˌflaɪ
whitefly
ˈwaɪtˌflaɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DROPFLY

drop-add
drop-dead
drop-dead date
drop-dead fee
drop-down menu
drop-forge
drop-in centre
drop-kick
drop-leaf
drop-off
dropforge
dropkicker
droplet
droplight
dropout
dropout rate
droppable
dropped
dropped sole
dropper

WORDS THAT END LIKE DROPFLY

barfly
black fly
briefly
caddis fly
chiefly
crane fly
dry fly
fly
fruit fly
gruffly
let fly
Mediterranean fruit fly
on the fly
overfly
peacock butterfly
refly
ruffly
Spanish fly
stiffly
tsetse fly

Synonyms and antonyms of dropfly in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «dropfly» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DROPFLY

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The translations of dropfly from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dropfly» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

dropfly
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

dropfly
570 millions of speakers

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dropfly
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

dropfly
380 millions of speakers
ar

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dropfly
280 millions of speakers

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dropfly
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

dropfly
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

dropfly
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dropfly
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dropfly
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

dropfly
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

dropfly
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

dropfly
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dropfly
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dropfly
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

dropfly
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ड्रॉप फ्लो
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dropfly
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

dropfly
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dropfly
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

dropfly
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

dropfly
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

dropfly
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dropfly
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

dropfly
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dropfly
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dropfly

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DROPFLY»

The term «dropfly» is barely ever used and occupies the 208.805 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dropfly

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DROPFLY»

Discover the use of dropfly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dropfly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Annual Report ... of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in ...
45 51 55 87 21 66 32 62 55 19 33 73 42 62 ORDER 6. l Ovarian Dropfly - — - - - — — - - - - - - - - - 2 Uterus Disease.60. - '2 1 - 2 1 - - 2 1 - 1 2 3 1 01mm 7. 1 Arthritis - - - - 2 1 - - l - - 1 - - 2 1 2 2 Joint Disease, 61'. - - 15 8 15 12 7 3'1 13 20 12 2 ...
Great Britain. General Register Office, 1865
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The American Cattle Doctor: A Complete Work on All the ...
117 nancy ........................... .. 100 do_ laceration of.“ Trcmhles ........... .. 231 Triplets , birth of."96 W TymP'nil'il """""""""""""""""""" -- 64 “'nrts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 220 Twins, birth of ......................... .. 96 womb, dropfly of___ ...
George H. Dadd, 1872
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Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor. ...
She was comparatively rich, lived in a house of her own in Fleet-Street, and. belly ) a loyalist, left. £20, at her death, for the conduit to run wine upon the (then expected) return of Charles II. She dicd of dropfly. in 1659, at the age of 75, and was ...
William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall, 1857
4
The Complete Costume Dictionary
Palestine. Imported, imitation silk fabric. 2. Israel. Artificial silk. hariry: See lasoa. haol haori harisnya: Hungary. Men's gray or white homespun breeches worn over tight trousers with front dropfly. Trimmed with red of black braid on sides.
Elizabeth J. Lewandowski, 2011
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Delphi Complete Works of Charles Kingsley (Illustrated):
Hetugs downwards and backwards,but too late;the dropfly isfast wrapt in Ceratophyllum andGlyceria, Callitriche and Potamogeton, and halfadozen more horrid things with long names and longer stems; andwhatremains but the fateof ...
Charles Kingsley, 2013
6
The Lost Era: Deny Thy Father
A dropfly, attracted by his stillness, landed on his cheek. He twitched a couple of times and the thing flew away without biting. He was glad—raising a hand toward it might have alerted the cops, and in this neighborhood you didn't want to do ...
Jeff Mariotte, 2012
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Deny Thy Father: Lost Era 2355-2357
A dropfly, attracted by his stillness, landed on his cheek. He twitched a couple of times and the thing flew away without biting. He was glad—raising a hand toward it might have alerted the cops, and in this neighborhood you didn't want to do ...
Jeff Mariotte, 2003
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The Chambers Dictionary
bob -apple the game of trying to catch a swinging or floating apple with one's teeth; bob cat a kind of lynx; bob -cherry the game of trying to catch a swinging cherry with one's teeth; bob -fly (angling) the top dropfly; bob sled or bob sleigh a short ...
Allied Chambers, 1998
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The Lancet London: A Journal of British and Foreign ...
... or pregnancy; from the. former it may easily be distinguished, by its feeling so much more that and immovable when examined throuith the abdominal coverings: in omrmn droPflY there is generally a sort of elastic frel' "Id not nofrequently, ...
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Legislative Documents, ...
... Scrol'uln -___ Scrufulu ___. Tumor .___ .v Cunron ( n r ) CRITTENUEN Age ___ ' ___Age ______ _. Accidvni __ _. Burnsasmld! BOWvls, dis.ul' Canver__- ___ Consumptium Consumption, Diarrbr-a .___ Diarrhea ___. Dropsy .___. Dropfly ...
Kentucky, 1878

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