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# dropper

noun (a dropper, droppers)

«dropper» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A small tube, usually glass or plastic, with a rubber bulb at the top, used to take up a liquid and let it out drop by drop. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dropper/#m1)
2. (informal) Someone who drops something, as in a name-dropper (someone who boasts about famous people they know). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dropper/#m2)

### In the lessons

In science lessons, a dropper (or pipette) adds small amounts of liquid in experiments; in health, medicine or eye drops come with a dropper; phrases: «a dropper bottle», «eye dropper», «name-dropper».

### Examples

- Use the dropper to add three drops of food colouring. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dropper/#x1)
- The nurse gave the baby medicine with a dropper. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dropper/#x2)
- We put iodine on the potato with a dropper. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dropper/#x3)
- Squeeze the bulb gently, or the dropper will squirt. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dropper/#x4)
- Eye drops come in a little dropper bottle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dropper/#x5)
- Count each drop from the dropper carefully. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dropper/#x6)

### Note

Countable. In science, a «pipette» is a more exact tool; in maths and science, if each drop is 0.05 ml, then 20 drops make 1 ml.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «dropper» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dropper/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«dropper» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/dropper.html) on Mova free.