droplet
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3.4
- noun
- /ˈdrɒplɪt/
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- After the rain, a droplet of water hung from the tip of the leaf.
- water droplets
- oil droplets
- small droplets
So just pop a few little droplets on my hand.
- So just pop a few little droplets on my hand.
- But it's all in the cloud droplet form.
- But from people's moisture, from droplets in their breathing, yes.
- It has a storage place for this lipid droplet.
- Explaining how you, it catches your respiratory droplets.
- So you use micro droplets as reaction chambers to basically amplify RNA.
- There's there's droplets of different sizes, aerosols, tiny, tiny droplets.
Examples
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These are the sorts of droplets you'd find in fog or clouds.
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And in this case, it's also the term for like a droplet of material.
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This is the second droplet.
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And when I turn the voltage up, the droplet changes shape.
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It's a hot day, and as you watch, water droplets appear on the outside of the glass.
Academic text (1994) -
The clouds are made up of tiny droplets of water and ice crystals so light they hang in the sky.
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Outside, it began to rain lightly, the droplets hitting the window in soft splats.
Fiction book (1991) -
Dave is mesmerized by these oil droplets as they move past his face mask.
Academic text (1991) -
The cloud was filled with tiny droplets of water that shimmered in the sunlight.
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She noticed a droplet of ink on the paper that had smudged her notes.
Synonyms
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1.0
A very small amount of liquid like water
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7.2
A small round drop of liquid
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9.5
A very small drop of liquid
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1.0
A small round piece of water that hangs on leaves after rain
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9.3
A very small amount of something, often a liquid like a few drops
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Etymology
Droplet comes from the common word drop plus the little ending -let, where -let means 'small', as in booklet or leaflet. So a droplet is a 'small drop' of liquid.