Drop vs. Withdraw

A small mass of liquid just large enough to hold its own weight via surface tension, usually one that falls from a source of liquid.

Example: ‘Put three drops of oil into the mixture.’;

The space or distance below a cliff or other high position into which someone or something could fall.

Example: ‘On one side of the road was a 50-foot drop.’;

A fall, descent; an act of dropping.

Example: ‘That was a long drop, but fortunately I didn't break any bones.’;

A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, sometimes associated with criminal activity; a drop-off point.

Example: ‘I left the plans at the drop, like you asked.’; ‘The Drop (film title)’;

An instance of dropping supplies or making a delivery, sometimes associated with delivery of supplies by parachute.

Example: ‘The delivery driver has to make three more drops before lunch.’;

A small amount of an alcoholic beverage

Example: ‘He usually enjoys a drop after dinner.’;

alcoholic spirits in general.

Example: ‘It doesn't matter where you're from; anyone who enjoys the drop is a friend of mine.’;

A single measure of whisky.

A small, round, sweet piece of hard candy, e.g. a lemon drop; a lozenge.

(American football) A dropped pass.

Example: ‘Yet another drop for the Tiger tight end.’;

(American football) Short for drop-back or drop back.

Example: ‘The Tiger quarterback took a one-step drop, expecting his tight end to be open.’;

(Rugby football) A drop-kick.

In a woman, the difference between bust circumference and hip circumference; in a man, the difference between chest circumference and waist circumference.

relegation from one division to a lower one

Any item dropped by defeated enemies.

(music) A point in a song, usually electronic-styled music such as dubstep, house, trance or trap, where there is a very noticeable and pleasing change in tempo, bass, and/or overall tone; also known as the highlight or climax.

An unsolicited credit card issue.

The vertical length of a hanging curtain.

That which resembles or hangs like a liquid drop: a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, etc.

(architecture) A gutta.

A mechanism for lowering something, such as: a trapdoor; a machine for lowering heavy weights onto a ship's deck; a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet; a curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; etc.

(slang) (With definite article) A gallows; a sentence of hanging.

A drop press or drop hammer.

(engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.

(nautical) The depth of a square sail; generally applied to the courses only.

The cover mounted on a swivel over a keyhole, that rests over the keyhole when not in use to keep out debris, but is swiveled out of the way before inserting the key.

(intransitive) To fall in droplets (of a liquid).

(transitive) To drip (a liquid).

(intransitive) Generally, to fall (straight down).

Example: ‘A single shot was fired and the bird dropped from the sky.’;

To let fall; to allow to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).

Example: ‘Don't drop that plate!’; ‘The police ordered the men to drop their weapons.’;

To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.

(intransitive) To sink quickly to the ground.

Example: ‘Drop and give me thirty push-ups, private!’; ‘If your clothes are on fire, stop, drop and roll.’;

(intransitive) To fall dead, or to fall in death.

(intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to stop.

(transitive) To mention casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.

Example: ‘The moderator would drop hints whenever the students struggled.’; ‘She would sometimes drop off to sleep straight after dinner.’;

To part with or spend (money).

(transitive) To cease concerning oneself over; to have nothing more to do with (a subject, discussion etc.).

Example: ‘I'm tired of this subject. Will you just drop it?’;

(intransitive) To lessen, decrease, or diminish in value, condition, degree, etc.

Example: ‘The stock dropped 1.5% yesterday.’; ‘We can take our vacation when the price of fuel drops.’; ‘Watch for the temperature to drop sharply, then you'll know the reaction is complete.’;

(transitive) To let (a letter etc.) fall into a postbox; to send (a letter or message).

Example: ‘Drop me a note when you get to the city.’;

(transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot etc.; to bring down, to shoot down.

Example: ‘Make any sudden movements and I will drop you!’;

To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter etc.).

Example: ‘Cockneys drop their aitches.’;

To fail to make a catch from a batted ball that would have lead to the batsman being out.

Example: ‘Warne dropped Tendulkar on 99. Tendulkar went on to get a century next ball’;

To swallow (a drug), particularly LSD.

Example: ‘They had never dropped acid.’;

(transitive) To dispose (of); get rid of; to remove; to lose.

Example: ‘I dropped ten pounds and an obnoxious fiancée.’;

(transitive) To eject; to dismiss; to cease to include, as if on a list.

Example: ‘I've been dropped from the football team.’;

(Rugby football) To score [a goal] by means of a drop-kick.

To impart.

Example: ‘I drop knowledge wherever I go.’; ‘Yo, I drop rhymes like nobody's business.’;

To release to the public.

Example: ‘They dropped "Hip-Hop Xmas" in time for the holidays.’; ‘That hacker has been threatening to drop my docs [i.e. publish my personal information].’;

To play a portion of music in the manner of a disc jockey.

Example: ‘That guy can drop the bass like a monster.’; ‘I love it when he drops his funky beats.’;

To enter public distribution.

Example: ‘"Hip-Hop Xmas" dropped in time for the holidays.’;

To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.

(transitive) To cancel or end a scheduled event, project or course.

Example: ‘I had to drop calculus because it was taking up too much of my time and I couldn't go anymore.’;

To cook, especially by deep-frying or grilling.

Example: ‘Drop a basket of fries.’;

To lower; to move to a lower position.

To lower in timbre, often relating to puberty.

Example: ‘Billy's voice dropped suddenly when he turned 12.’;

To lower in pitch, tempo, key, or other quality.

Example: ‘The song, 180 beats per minute, drops to 150 BPM near the end.’; ‘My synthesizer makes the notes sound funny when they drop below C2.’;

To visit informally; used with in or by.

Example: ‘drop by soon;’; ‘drop in on her tomorrow’;

To give birth to.

Example: ‘to drop a lamb’;

To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.

To hang lower and begin producing sperm due to puberty.

The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a fluid; a small quantity; as, a drop of water.

Example: ‘With minute drops from off the eaves.’; ‘As dear to me as are the ruddy dropsThat visit my sad heart.’; ‘That drop of peace divine.’;

That which resembles, or that which hangs like, a liquid drop; as a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug.

Same as Gutta.

Whatever is arranged to drop, hang, or fall from an elevated position; also, a contrivance for lowering something

Any medicine the dose of which is measured by drops; as, lavender drops.

The depth of a square sail; - generally applied to the courses only.

Act of dropping; sudden fall or descent.

To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules; to distill.

Example: ‘The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.’;

To cause to fall in one portion, or by one motion, like a drop; to let fall; as, to drop a line in fishing; to drop a courtesy.

To let go; to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to omit.

Example: ‘They suddenly drop't the pursuit.’; ‘That astonishing ease with which fine ladies drop you and pick you up again.’; ‘The connection had been dropped many years.’; ‘Dropping the too rough H in Hell and Heaven.’;

To bestow or communicate by a suggestion; to let fall in an indirect, cautious, or gentle manner; as, to drop hint, a word of counsel, etc.

To lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc.

To send, as a letter; as, please drop me a line, a letter, word.

To give birth to; as, to drop a lamb.

To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.

Example: ‘Show to the sun their waved coats dropped with gold.’;

To fall in drops.

Example: ‘The kindly dew drops from the higher tree,And wets the little plants that lowly dwell.’;

To fall, in general, literally or figuratively; as, ripe fruit drops from a tree; wise words drop from the lips.

Example: ‘Mutilations of which the meaning has dropped out of memory.’; ‘When the sound of dropping nuts is heard.’;

To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.

Example: ‘The heavens . . . dropped at the presence of God.’;

To fall dead, or to fall in death; as, dropping like flies.

Example: ‘Nothing, says Seneca, so soon reconciles us to the thoughts of our own death, as the prospect of one friend after another dropping round us.’;

To come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as, the affair dropped.

To come unexpectedly; - with in or into; as, my old friend dropped in a moment.

Example: ‘Takes care to drop in when he thinks you are just seated.’;

To fall or be depressed; to lower; as, the point of the spear dropped a little.

To fall short of a mark.

Example: ‘Often it drops or overshoots by the disproportion of distance.’;

To be deep in extent; to descend perpendicularly; as, her main topsail drops seventeen yards.

a small quantity (especially of a liquid);

Example: ‘one drop of each sample was analyzed’; ‘any child with a drop of negro blood was legally a negro’; ‘there is not a drop of pity in that man’;

a shape that is small and round;

Example: ‘he studied the shapes of low-viscosity drops’; ‘beads of sweat on his forehead’;

a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity;

Example: ‘a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index’; ‘there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery’; ‘a dip in prices’; ‘when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall’;

a steep high face of rock;

Example: ‘he stood on a high cliff overlooking the town’; ‘a steep drop’;

a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property)

a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity;

Example: ‘it was a miracle that he survived the drop from that height’;

a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery

a central depository where things can be left or picked up

the act of dropping something;

Example: ‘they expected the drop would be successful’;

let fall to the ground;

Example: ‘Don't drop the dishes’;

to fall vertically;

Example: ‘the bombs are dropping on enemy targets’;

go down in value;

Example: ‘Stock prices dropped’;

fall or drop to a lower place or level;

Example: ‘He sank to his knees’;

terminate an association with;

Example: ‘drop him from the Republican ticket’;

utter casually;

Example: ‘drop a hint’;

stop pursuing or acting;

Example: ‘drop a lawsuit’; ‘knock it off!’;

leave or unload, especially of passengers or cargo;

cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow;

Example: ‘strike down a tree’; ‘Lightning struck down the hikers’;

lose (a game);

Example: ‘The Giants dropped 11 of their first 13’;

pay out;

Example: ‘spend money’;

lower the pitch of (musical notes)

hang freely;

Example: ‘the ornaments dangled from the tree’; ‘The light dropped from the ceiling’;

stop associating with;

Example: ‘They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock’;

let or cause to fall in drops;

Example: ‘dribble oil into the mixture’;

get rid of;

Example: ‘he shed his image as a pushy boss’; ‘shed your clothes’;

leave undone or leave out;

Example: ‘How could I miss that typo?’; ‘The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten’;

change from one level to another;

Example: ‘She dropped into army jargon’;

grow worse;

Example: ‘Her condition deteriorated’; ‘Conditions in the slums degenerated’; ‘The discussion devolved into a shouting match’;

give birth; used for animals;

Example: ‘The cow dropped her calf this morning’;

let or make (something) fall vertically

Example: ‘the fire was caused by someone dropping a lighted cigarette’; ‘they dropped bombs on Caen during the raid’;

deliver (supplies or troops) by parachute

Example: ‘the airlift dropped food into the camp’;

score (a goal) by a drop kick

Example: ‘he dropped a goal to beat England in the final minute’;

(of an animal) give birth to (young).

take (a drug, especially LSD) orally

Example: ‘he dropped a lot of acid in the Sixties’;

fall vertically

Example: ‘the spoon dropped with a clatter from her hand’;

(of a person) allow oneself to fall; let oneself down without jumping

Example: ‘they escaped by climbing out of the window and dropping to the ground’;

(of a person or animal) sink to or towards the ground

Example: ‘he dropped to his knees in the mud’;

collapse or die from exhaustion

Example: ‘he looked ready to drop’;

(of ground) slope steeply down

Example: ‘the land drops away to the river’;

make or become lower, weaker, or less

Example: ‘pre-tax profits dropped by 37 per cent’; ‘tourism has dropped off in the last few years’; ‘he dropped his voice as she came into the room’;

abandon or discontinue (a course of action or study)

Example: ‘the charges against him were dropped last year’;

discard or exclude (someone or something)

Example: ‘they were dropped from the team in the reshuffle’;

stop associating with

Example: ‘I was under pressure from family and friends to drop Barbara’;

set down or unload (a passenger or goods), especially on the way to somewhere else

Example: ‘his mum dropped him outside and drove off to work’; ‘he dropped the load off at a dealer's’;

put or leave in a particular place without ceremony or formality

Example: ‘just drop it in the post when you've got time’;

mention in passing, typically in order to impress

Example: ‘she dropped a remark about having been included in the selection’;

(of a DJ) select and play (a record)

Example: ‘various guest DJs drop quality tunes both old and new’;

release (a musical recording).

(in sport) fail to win (a point or a match)

Example: ‘the club have yet to drop a point in the Second Division’;

lose (money) through gambling

Example: ‘he reckoned I'd dropped forty thousand pounds’;

force or be forced to play (a relatively high card) as a loser under an opponent's higher card, because it is the only card in its suit held in the hand

Example: ‘East drops the 10 on the second round’;

a small round or pear-shaped portion of liquid that hangs or falls or adheres to a surface

Example: ‘the first drops of rain splashed on the ground’;

a very small amount of liquid

Example: ‘there was not a drop of water in sight’;

a small drink of spirits

Example: ‘he doesn't touch a drop during the week’;

liquid medication to be measured or applied in very small amounts

Example: ‘eye drops’;

an instance of falling or dropping

Example: ‘they left within five minutes of the drop of the curtain’;

an act of dropping supplies or troops by parachute

Example: ‘the planes finally managed to make the drop’;

a fall in amount, quality, or rate

Example: ‘a significant drop in consumer spending’;

an abrupt or steep fall or slope

Example: ‘a sheer 1,500-foot drop’;

the relegation of a sports team to a lower league or division

Example: ‘they only just avoided the drop last season’;

the playing of a high card underneath an opponent's higher card, because it is the only card in its suit held in the hand

Example: ‘do you play for the drop now or finesse the 9?’;

a delivery

Example: ‘I got to the depot and made the drop’;

a letter box.

a hiding place for stolen, illicit, or secret things

Example: ‘the lavatory's water cistern could be used as a letter drop’;

a small, round sweet or lozenge

Example: ‘a chocolate drop’;

an earring that hangs down from the earlobe

Example: ‘simple amethyst and diamond drops’;

a section of theatrical scenery lowered from the flies; a drop cloth or drop curtain.

a trapdoor on a gallows, the opening of which causes the prisoner to fall and thus be hanged

Example: ‘warders, standing on planks, invariably flanked the prisoners on the drop’;

execution by hanging.

(transitive) To pull (something) back, aside, or away.

(intransitive) To stop talking to, or interacting with, other people and start thinking thoughts that are not related to what is happening around.

(transitive) To take back (a comment, etc).

Example: ‘to withdraw false charges’;

(transitive) To remove, to stop providing (one's support, etc).

(transitive) To extract (money from an account).

(intransitive) To retreat.

(intransitive) To be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc.

To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like.

Example: ‘Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything.’;

To take back; to recall or retract; as, to withdraw false charges.

To retire; to retreat; to quit a company or place; to go away; as, he withdrew from the company.

pull back or move away or backward;

Example: ‘The enemy withdrew’; ‘The limo pulled away from the curb’;

withdraw from active participation;

Example: ‘He retired from chess’;

release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles;

Example: ‘I want to disengage myself from his influence’; ‘disengage the gears’;

cause to be returned;

Example: ‘recall the defective auto tires’; ‘The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt’;

take back what one has said;

Example: ‘He swallowed his words’;

keep away from others;

Example: ‘He sequestered himself in his study to write a book’;

remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, taking off, etc. or remove something abstract;

Example: ‘remove a threat’; ‘remove a wrapper’; ‘Remove the dirty dishes from the table’; ‘take the gun from your pocket’; ‘This machine withdraws heat from the environment’;

break from a meeting or gathering;

Example: ‘We adjourned for lunch’; ‘The men retired to the library’;

retire gracefully;

Example: ‘He bowed out when he realized he could no longer handle the demands of the chairmanship’;

remove (a commodity) from (a supply source);

Example: ‘She drew $2,000 from the account’; ‘The doctors drew medical supplies from the hospital's emergency bank’;

lose interest;

Example: ‘he retired from life when his wife died’;

make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity;

Example: ‘We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him’; ‘He backed out of his earlier promise’; ‘The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns’;

remove or take away (something) from a particular place or position

Example: ‘she prised open the lid and withdrew a slim diamond ring’; ‘Ruth withdrew her hand from his’;

take (money) out of an account

Example: ‘normally you can withdraw up to £50 in cash’;

discontinue or no longer provide (something previously supplied or offered)

Example: ‘the party threatened to withdraw its support for the government’;

say that (a statement one has made) is untrue or unjustified

Example: ‘he failed to withdraw his remarks and apologize’;

(of a man) practise coitus interruptus

Example: ‘it put me off taking the Pill—my partner now withdraws’;

leave or cause to leave a place or situation

Example: ‘UN forces withdrew from the province’; ‘both countries agreed to withdraw their troops’;

cease to participate in an activity or be a member of a team or organization

Example: ‘his rival withdrew from the race on the second lap’;

prevent (someone) from participating in an activity

Example: ‘patients were withdrawn from therapy when they had been depression-free for a month’;

depart to another place in search of quiet or privacy

Example: ‘he went silent and withdrew into himself’; ‘they withdrew to their rooms for a siesta’;

cease to take an addictive drug

Example: ‘for the cocaine user, it is possible to withdraw without medication’;