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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dropout
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
high
▪ In the early 1980s it had the highest absenteeism and dropout rates in Portland.
▪ He was white, 32, a high school dropout who did indeed know the victim and live in her building.
▪ An even higher dropout rate, 28. 1 percent, correlated with those who were especially idealistic and people-oriented.
▪ Factory operatives and laborers used to be high school graduates or even high school dropouts.
▪ State figures of babies born to high school dropouts ranged from 10 percent in North Dakota to 33 percent in Texas.
▪ For high school dropouts, it was 57 percent.
▪ The whole debate can be recast in the form of a single question: What should we do about high dropout rates?
▪ The real earnings of high school dropouts have plummeted as much as 26 percent in the past 15 years.
■ NOUN
rate
▪ This is why the dropout rate amongst would-be dealers is so phenomenal.
▪ They spend ever more on public education, yet test scores and dropout rates barely budge.
▪ Schools of choice have lower dropout rates, fewer discipline problems, better student attitudes, and higher teacher satisfaction.
▪ In the early 1980s it had the highest absenteeism and dropout rates in Portland.
▪ Thus Hispanics, whose school dropout rates were historically the highest, were often unable to find work.
▪ Not only are schools failing, but the national dropout rate is now over twenty percent and rising.
▪ An even higher dropout rate, 28. 1 percent, correlated with those who were especially idealistic and people-oriented.
▪ The schools agreed to reduce the dropout rate and improve daily attendance.
school
▪ Kids in our society who would be school dropouts or marginal students were working hard.
▪ He was white, 32, a high school dropout who did indeed know the victim and live in her building.
▪ Thus Hispanics, whose school dropout rates were historically the highest, were often unable to find work.
▪ Factory operatives and laborers used to be high school graduates or even high school dropouts.
▪ State figures of babies born to high school dropouts ranged from 10 percent in North Dakota to 33 percent in Texas.
▪ For high school dropouts, it was 57 percent.
▪ The real earnings of high school dropouts have plummeted as much as 26 percent in the past 15 years.
▪ But looking downward the wage premium that high school graduates used to enjoy relative to high school dropouts actually shrank.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ About half of the prisoners are high-school dropouts.
▪ His mother is a high-school dropout, trying to raise four children on less than $500 a month.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cristalena was still in school, he was a dropout... how would they get the money to survive?
▪ Half of them were dropouts returning to school.
▪ He was a kind of dropout.
▪ His Hal would be no rollicking dropout.
▪ Schools of choice have lower dropout rates, fewer discipline problems, better student attitudes, and higher teacher satisfaction.
▪ The dropouts from the first part of the ecological exam are easy to identify as they are, after all, dead.
▪ This is why the dropout rate amongst would-be dealers is so phenomenal.
▪ You may see yourself as a dropout or a failure.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dropout

"one who 'drops out' of something," 1930, from drop (v.) + out (adv.). As a phrase, drop out "withdraw" is recorded from 1550s.

Wiktionary
dropout

alt. 1 Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course 2 One who suddenly leaves anything, or the act of doing so. 3 (context cycling English) The slot in the frame that accepts the axles of the wheels. 4 A damaged portion of a tape or disk, causing a brief omission of audio, video, or data. n. 1 Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course 2 One who suddenly leaves anything, or the act of doing so. 3 (context cycling English) The slot in the frame that accepts the axles of the wheels. 4 A damaged portion of a tape or disk, causing a brief omission of audio, video, or data.

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WordNet
dropout

  1. n. someone who quits school before graduation

  2. someone who withdraws from a social group or environment

Wikipedia
Dropout

Dropout may refer to:

  • High school dropouts
  • Drop out ceilings
Dropout (communications)

A dropout is a momentary loss of signal in a communications system, usually caused by noise, propagation anomalies, or system malfunctions. For analog signals, a dropout is frequently gradual and partial, depending on the cause. For digital signals, dropouts are more pronounced, usually being sudden and complete, due to the cliff effect. In mobile telephony, a dropout of more than a few seconds will result in a dropped call.

Dropout (1970 film)

Dropout is a 1970 Italian romantic drama directed by Tinto Brass. It stars real-life couple, Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave. They also worked with Brass a year later on the drama, La vacanza. Dropout was released in France on December 18, 1970, followed by a theatrical release in Italy on February 22, 1971.

Dropout (neural networks)

Dropout is a technique of reducing overfitting in neural networks by preventing complex co-adaptations on training data. It is a very efficient way of performing model averaging with neural networks. The term "dropout" refers to dropping out units (both hidden and visible) in a neural network.

Dropout (astronomy)

In astronomy, dropout is a radiation source whose radiation intensity falls off sharply below a specific wavelength. The source will be easily visible when its light is filtered to wavelengths longer than the cutoff value, but will "drop out" of the image when it is filtered to wavelengths shorter than the threshold.

This is a standard method for locating distant galaxies in deep field images. Because the hydrogen that surrounds the galaxies absorbs light with a wavelength around 100 nanometers, the galaxies have a natural dropout threshold. The exact wavelength of this threshold is redshifted and can be used to determine the distance to the galaxy.

Usage examples of "dropout".

Little Sammy Chianti, seventh grade dropout and neighborhood terrorist, became known as Sam the Bomber and participated in another fifty-six slayings before attaining legal age.

It is widely known that Jobs, a dropout from Reed College in Portland, had experimented with drugs and pursued a countercultural lifestyle both before and after helping found the quirky computer maker.

In the meantime our restless civic pillars ought to turn their attention to the elements that produce the criminals whom we so fearthe unemployment, poverty, teenaged pregnancies, broken homes and dropout rate.

I said many of the people I talked to were not freaks and dropouts, but competent professionals with bank accounts and spotless reputations.

It seems unremarkable that Hollywood zeros and college dropouts sneer about the intelligence of the guy who won the Cold War.

For the second year in a row the festival celebrated the First Amendment, giving its "Freedom of Speech Award" to college dropout Michael Moore, in an event hosted by Joe Lockhart, former press secretary to Bill Clinton, a president whose IRS audited people who engaged in free speech against him.

She focused on the notes—not that there was much to read, beyond the usual tired litany of red-lined credit ratings, public trust derivatives, broken promises, exhibitions of petrified feco-stalagmites, and an advanced career as an art-school dropout.

And then you can go join the other artistic dilettantes and dropouts and mental cases that Sad King Billy collects on whatever Outback world he lives on.

The other item was smaller because Will Darnell had been a 'suspected crime figure', and Don Vandenberg had only been a dipshit dropout gas-jockey.

Undaunted, I burst out with questions like whether he preferred Panama Red or Acapulco Gold and how the fuck did we manage to fit inside of a tiny post office box and other things a propos a naive young semiliterate dropout hippy writer.

Most of his supporters are young: Students, dropouts, artists, poets, crazies -- the people who respect Cesar Chavez, but who can't really relate to church-going farmworkers.

She's a law school dropout, efficient, intelligent, computer literate, multilingual, empathic, diplomatic, moderately ambitious, extremely attractive, and devoutly gay.

In 1968, Terrill Samson, just seventeen years old, had been a high school dropout looking to beat the draft and avoid going to Vietnam and dying in the fields like many of his Detroit gang-banging friends.

There were dropouts all along the way: hillbillies, Okies, Arkies -- they're all the same people.

This was the era of love-ins, psychedelics, dropouts, war protests, body paint, assassinations, LSD, and rumors of kids so stoned their eyeballs got fried because they stared at the sun too long.