Dropping is a gerundive of
drop. It might refer to:
In language
Skipping
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Copula dropping
Zero copula, also known as null copula, is a linguistic phenomenon whereby the subject is joined to the predicate without overt marking of this relationship (like the copula ''to be'' in English). One can distinguish languages that simply do not ...
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G dropping
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H-dropping
''H''-dropping or aitch-dropping is the elision, deletion of the voiceless glottal fricative or "''H''-sound", . The phenomenon is common in many dialects of English language, English, and is also found in certain other languages, either as a pu ...
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Initial dropping
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R dropping
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Pronoun dropping
Personal pronouns are pronouns that are associated primarily with a particular grammatical person – first person (as ''I''), second person (as ''you''), or third person (as ''he'', ''she'', ''it''). Personal pronouns may also take different for ...
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Y dropping
This article describes those aspects of the phonological history of English which concern consonants.
Consonant clusters
H-cluster reductions
* Reduction of /hw/ – to in a few words (such as ''who''), but usually to , for the great majorit ...
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Yod-dropping
The phonological history of English includes various changes in the phonology of consonant clusters.
H-cluster reductions
The H-cluster reductions are various consonant reductions that have occurred in the history of English, involving conso ...
Using
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Dropping the F-bomb
''Fuck'' () is profanity in the English language that often refers to the act of sexual intercourse, but is also commonly used as an intensifier or to convey disdain. While its origin is obscure, it is usually considered to be first attested ...
, swearing
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Name-dropping
Name-dropping (or name-checking) is the practice of naming or alluding to important people or institutions in order to indicate one's association with them. The term often connotes an attempt to impress others; it is usually regarded negatively, ...
, mentioning names
Falling
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Automatic dropping device
A pantograph (or "pan" or "panto") is an apparatus mounted on the roof of an electric train, tram or trolley buses to collect power through contact with an overhead line. The term stems from the resemblance of some styles to the mechanical pant ...
, a pantograph safety system
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Dropping a deuce
Defecation (or defaecation) follows digestion and is the necessary biological process by which organisms eliminate a solid, semisolid, or liquid waste material known as feces (or faeces) from the digestive tract via the anus or cloaca. The act ...
, defecation
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Dropping in
Dropping in is a skateboarding trick with which a skateboarder starts skating a half-pipe by dropping into it from the coping instead of starting from the bottom and pumping gradually for more speed.RIDE Channel. "Tony Hawk Teaches How to Drop-in ...
, skating technique
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Dropping point The dropping point of a lubricating grease is an indication of the heat resistance of the grease and is the temperature at which it passes from a semi-solid to a liquid state under specific test conditions. It is dependent on the type of thickener ...
, temperature for liquid droplets
* Dropping the soap for
prison rape
Prison rape or jail rape is sexual assault of people while they are incarcerated. The phrase is commonly used to describe rape of inmates by other inmates. It is a significant, if controversial, part of what is studied under the wider concept ...
Other
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Dropping out
Dropping out refers to leaving high school, college, university or another group for practical reasons, necessities, inability, apathy, or disillusionment with the system from which the individual in question leaves.
Canada
In Canada, most in ...
, discontinuing education
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Eaves dropping, secretly listening
See also
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