dropper
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2.7
- noun
- /ˈdrɒpər/
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cuentagotas
- Many children's medications come as a liquid, with a spoon, dropper, or syringe, and today, most come in flavors that are acceptable to children.
- dropper bottle
You get an actual dropper in here and I think this is really, really nice.
- You get an actual dropper in here and I think this is really, really nice.
- And I'm just taking like a whole dropper of that and I just run it through the ends of my hair.
- You get a full oz, you do get the actual dropper where it kind of sucks product up and you just go boom boom boom.
- We got some dropper or whatever and a mixie thingy.
- It's not really a foundation, but yes, it has like a little dropper.
Examples
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She reached under her pillow and gave me a small vial with a glass dropper.
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You were trying to give me some medicine, like when I was a kid, with a squeeze dropper.
Fiction book (1994) -
You get an actual dropper in here and I think this is really, really nice.
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So, honey, what if you take an eye dropper and you drop it in your eyes?
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Am I supposed to just have a clean dropper on hand for all these colors?
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After four times, I had to give her an eye dropper.
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You can just put one dropper full or just a couple drops.
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Then, with an eye dropper, they would use it like nose drops.
Academic text (2005) -
Usually, 10 mg/ml is prepared and poured into a sterile dropper bottle.
Academic text (1999) -
You can use a dropper to add precise amounts of liquid to your experiments.
Synonyms
2
3.5
A small tool that draws up and releases tiny drops of liquid, often for medicine
1
3.5
A small tube with a soft rubber top that makes drops of liquid
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Etymology
Dropper comes from the simple word drop ('a small bit of liquid') plus the ending -er meaning 'one that does something'. Think of a small tube that makes tiny 'drops' fall out, so a dropper is the tool used to put out liquid in small drops.