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Definition of dropper in English: droppernoun ˈdrɒpəˈdrɑpər 1A short glass tube with a rubber bulb at one end and a tiny hole at the other, for measuring out drops of medicine or other liquids. oils sold in bottles with a rubber-tipped dropper Example sentencesExamples - Small doses may need to be measured by a special dropper instead of a teaspoon.
- Don't buy essential oils with rubber glass dropper tops.
- He extracted a few drops of the green contents with the dropper and squeezed the drug into his coffee-Scotch mixture.
- It's easy enough to put a piece of brass on the scale and use a medicine dropper to fill the case.
- Rinse the dropper with hot water and dry with a clean tissue.
- Using a medicine dropper, tongs, and tweezers, how long does it take to remove 30 grains of rice from the bark of a tree?
- You would get less mercury in the dropper than you would water if you squeezed the bulb equally in both cases.
- Get the kind with the little test tubes and droppers.
- I prefer syringes, but droppers (from chemists) are another method, albeit more troublesome.
- These medications are usually applied to the infected areas with a dropper or with your finger after a feeding.
- So (turning this into a marketing tool,) they sold the stuff as a kit, with empty capsules and a dropper to make your own dose.
- When doses of liquid iron supplement are applied with a dropper, the dose should be placed well back on the tongue, and followed with water or juice.
- Have the child lie on one side, and using a medicine dropper, put one to three drops into the ear.
- When using liquid medication, use a calibrated dropper, medicine syringe or measuring spoon to insure that you are giving your child an accurate amount of medication.
- She bit her lip and stuck a medicine dropper into the bottle, filling it with a quick squeeze.
- With a medicine dropper, drop 20 drops of water inside the circle.
- Great care must be taken when patients need ocular treatments in addition to other treatments contained in dropper bottles.
- This medicine is to be taken by mouth even if it comes in a dropper bottle.
- Using a shoestring, a medicine dropper, and a sponge strip, how long does it take to get 10 ml of water from the graduated cylinder to the cup?
- When purchasing oils, be skeptical of oils that are bottled in clear glass or have a rubber dropper incorporated into its screw-top cap.
2South African Australian NZ A light vertical stave in a fence, especially a lath used to separate the wires of a wire fence. Example sentencesExamples - The galvanised steel fence dropper is the most convenient and easy to use fence dropper.
- Do you require non-electric droppers, barbed wire, iowa pattern, soft wire or high tensile?
3Fishing
A subsidiary line or loop of filament attached to a main line or leader. as modifier a dropper line Example sentencesExamples - My point fly is a heavy leaded nymph with a pheasant tail nymph on a dropper or tied in line some 12 inches above the heavy point fly.
- Put the bulk shot or an olivette about 18 inches from the hook and a dropper about 8 inches from the hook.
- One or two flies is normally quite sufficient for May loch style fishing and make sure droppers are well spaced so as to look unrelated.
- On weedy or messy bottoms, I often fish with a small nymph on a dropper about 18 inches from the booby.
- I generally use this fly as a top dropper on a three fly cast, and I have found that it is a good one to use on a sinking line.
Origin Mid 17th century (in the sense 'a person who lets something drop'); sense 1 is first recorded in the late 19th century. Rhymes bopper, copper, cropper, Dopper, hopper, improper, Joppa, poppa, popper, proper, shopper, stopper, swapper, topper, whopper Definition of dropper in US English: droppernounˈdrɑpərˈdräpər 1A short glass tube with a rubber bulb at one end and a tiny hole at the other, for measuring out drops of medicine or other liquids. oils sold in bottles with a rubber-tipped dropper Example sentencesExamples - Don't buy essential oils with rubber glass dropper tops.
- Rinse the dropper with hot water and dry with a clean tissue.
- When doses of liquid iron supplement are applied with a dropper, the dose should be placed well back on the tongue, and followed with water or juice.
- So (turning this into a marketing tool,) they sold the stuff as a kit, with empty capsules and a dropper to make your own dose.
- When purchasing oils, be skeptical of oils that are bottled in clear glass or have a rubber dropper incorporated into its screw-top cap.
- With a medicine dropper, drop 20 drops of water inside the circle.
- It's easy enough to put a piece of brass on the scale and use a medicine dropper to fill the case.
- When using liquid medication, use a calibrated dropper, medicine syringe or measuring spoon to insure that you are giving your child an accurate amount of medication.
- Using a medicine dropper, tongs, and tweezers, how long does it take to remove 30 grains of rice from the bark of a tree?
- These medications are usually applied to the infected areas with a dropper or with your finger after a feeding.
- Get the kind with the little test tubes and droppers.
- I prefer syringes, but droppers (from chemists) are another method, albeit more troublesome.
- Using a shoestring, a medicine dropper, and a sponge strip, how long does it take to get 10 ml of water from the graduated cylinder to the cup?
- She bit her lip and stuck a medicine dropper into the bottle, filling it with a quick squeeze.
- Small doses may need to be measured by a special dropper instead of a teaspoon.
- Great care must be taken when patients need ocular treatments in addition to other treatments contained in dropper bottles.
- This medicine is to be taken by mouth even if it comes in a dropper bottle.
- He extracted a few drops of the green contents with the dropper and squeezed the drug into his coffee-Scotch mixture.
- You would get less mercury in the dropper than you would water if you squeezed the bulb equally in both cases.
- Have the child lie on one side, and using a medicine dropper, put one to three drops into the ear.
2Fishing
A subsidiary line or loop of filament attached to a main line or leader. as modifier a dropper line Example sentencesExamples - On weedy or messy bottoms, I often fish with a small nymph on a dropper about 18 inches from the booby.
- One or two flies is normally quite sufficient for May loch style fishing and make sure droppers are well spaced so as to look unrelated.
- My point fly is a heavy leaded nymph with a pheasant tail nymph on a dropper or tied in line some 12 inches above the heavy point fly.
- I generally use this fly as a top dropper on a three fly cast, and I have found that it is a good one to use on a sinking line.
- Put the bulk shot or an olivette about 18 inches from the hook and a dropper about 8 inches from the hook.
Origin Mid 17th century (in the sense ‘a person who lets something drop’); dropper (sense 1) is first recorded in the late 19th century. |