drop offとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

drop off (third-person singular simple present drops off, present participle dropping off, simple past and past participle dropped off)

1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To fall asleep.

   Synonyms: drift off, doze off; see also Thesaurus:fall asleep

   Coordinate terms: sack out; pass out

   After two glasses of whiskey, Tom soon dropped off in front of the television.

   • 1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     And when the Boy dropped off to sleep, the Rabbit would snuggle down close under his little warm chin and dream, with the Boy's hands clasped close round him all night long.

2. (idiomatic, transitive, especially US) To deliver; to deposit or leave; to allow passengers to alight.

   Coordinate terms: hand off, hand over, set down, drop, dump out, kick out

   Can you drop the kids off at school?

   I'll drop off your books when I see you tonight.

   • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67:

     After dropping off travellers at Foregate Street, my train terminates at Shrub Hill - a station which boasts one of the best selection [sic] of semaphore signals left in the country.

3. To fall off:
   1. (transitive, also figuratively) To drop from, fall from.

      The leaves were slowly dropping off the tree.

   2. (intransitive, also figuratively) To drop, fall.

      Coordinate terms: drop away, drop out, fall away, fall out

      The leaves hung on until the end of November, then dropped off quickly.

4. (intransitive, figurative) To end a connection with a telephone queue, either by hanging up or after being served or processed.

   As soon as a caller drops off, we'll have an open line and maybe you can reach us then.

5. (intransitive) To lessen or reduce.

   Synonym: fall off

   Near-synonyms: taper off, dwindle

   Sales have dropped off in recent months.

6. (intransitive, slang, dated) To die.
7. (slang) To abandon or give up on (something); to be abandoned or given up on.

   My lawyer said some of those charges will be dropped off.

   If you ignore them, the fees won't just drop off.

派生語

• drop off the face of the earth
• drop off the map
• drop off the radar

関連する語

• drop-off

語源

Deverbal from drop off.

名詞

drop-off (plural drop-offs)

1. A sudden downward slope or cliff.
   1. The precipitous outer side of a coral reef, facing the open sea.
2. A decrease; especially, a sudden one.

   Synonyms: falloff, step-off

   There has been an unexplained drop-off in sales this quarter.

3. A delivery; the act of leaving a package, etc.
   • 2014, K. G. MacGregor, Anyone But You:

     Starting tomorrow, they'd do dropoffs and pickups instead of leaving their vehicles unguarded.

4. (especially US) A space reserved outside a bus or railway station for vehicles stopping to drop off passengers for onward transit.

   Synonyms: set-down, setting-down

   • 2020 May 20, “Network News: Plan submitted for £18.6 million station at Soham”, in Rail, page 21:

     Fifty car parking spaces, a drop-off point, five spaces for blue badge holders and lighting masts are all included in the plan, as is cycle parking on the station forecourt and ticket vending machines.

5. A time during which passengers, such as school children, are dropped off; the event or act of dropping them off.
   • 2021 February 1, Living in Brisbane, Brisbane, page 1:

     These signs are friendly reminders for road users to slow down during drop-off and pick-up.

6. (Internet) A visitor to a website who ceases to continue using and navigating around the site after reaching some specified page; or such an act of cessation.

   We're seeing a lot of drop-offs on the shop product pages; why aren't people making purchases?

関連する語

• drop off

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