dropletnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈdrɒp.lət/us/ˈdrɑːp.lət/a small drop of liquid
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Words meaning small pieces and amounts
- by a nose idiom
- chip
- clipping
- crumb
- dollop
- filing
- flake
- germ
- jot
- nose
- pat
- patch
- pennyworth
- pinpoint
- scattering
- scintilla
- shadow
- shard
- shred
- slip
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Examples from literature
- Although these droplets are of microscopic size they are not actually in solution, and therefore not subject to the force of osmosis which only affects solutions.
- She smiled and her lip cracked anew, dripping a single dark droplet of blood onto the gleaming wood of the floor, where it beaded like water on wax paper.
- The fat in the plasma is in minute quantities and appears as fine droplets—the form in which it is found in milk.
- There was a long silence, while rain fell with heavy drumming noises and the world was only a deep curtain of lightning-lighted droplets of falling water.
- Up there, Alan agreed, and they set off, kicking droplets of dew off the grass beside the sidewalk.