Crossword clues for dropper
dropper
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
dropper \drop"per\, n.
One who, or that which, drops. Specif.: (Fishing) A fly that drops from the leader above the bob or end fly.
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A dropping tube, usually of glass or plastic with a narrow opening at the tip and a rubber bulb at the top which can be squeezed to control intake or outflow of the fluid. The word is used in combinations with obvious significance, as eye dropper, medicine dropper, etc.
Syn: eye dropper. [1913 Webster +PJC]
(Mining) A branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main lode.
(Zo["o]l.) A dog which suddenly drops upon the ground when it sights game, -- formerly a common, and still an occasional, habit of the setter.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1700, "distiller," agent noun from drop (v.). Meaning "small tube from which liquid may be made to fall in drops" is from 1889.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A utensil for dispensing a single drop of liquid at a time. 2 One who drops something, especially one who drops a specific item to cause mischief. 3 (context computing English) A software component designed to install malware on a target system. 4 (context fishing English) A fly that drops from the leaden above the bob or end fly. 5 (context mining English) A branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main lode. 6 A dog which suddenly drops upon the ground when it sights game.
WordNet
n. pipet consisting of a small tube with a vacuum bulb at one end for drawing liquid in and releasing it a drop at a time [syn: eye dropper]
Wikipedia
A dropper is a program (malware component) that has been designed to "install" some sort of malware ( virus, backdoor, etc.) to a target system. The malware code can be contained within the dropper (single-stage) in such a way as to avoid detection by virus scanners or the dropper may download the malware to the target machine once activated (two stage).
A dropper or Pasteur pipette is an instrument used to transfer small quantities of liquid.
It may also refer to:
- Dropper (malware), a program that tries to install malware
- The Dropper, an album by experimental jazz fusion trio Medeski Martin & Wood
- one of the participants in the drop swindle
- an inhabitant of the "hippie commune" Drop City
Usage examples of "dropper".
The classic repellent for budworms is a squirt of mineral oil, which smothers the worms, applied with a medicine dropper or syringe inserted into the tip of each ear of corn or other budding fruits.
Keeping his eyes fixed on the thread lest he lose sight of it, Meridion uncorked the bottle with one hand and carefully removed the dropper.
Iris -- half Chinese and half Negro -- addicted to dihydro-oxy-heroin -- takes a shot every fifteen minutes to which end she leaves droppers and needles sticking out all over her.
She dipped an ear dropper into a vial of pungent oil and leaked searing hot liquid into my left ear.
I always have the straws lined up in rows on a metal rack and I use an eye dropper.
Finding the bottle of Nicolaou stain, I dipped in an eye dropper and carefully dripped a tiny amount of the red fluid on each slide, then finished with cover slips.
But despite his attempts at clamping his eyes shut, Angelo managed to empty the eye dropper into Frankie’.
The nun took a tiny bottle from the box, and with an eye dropper, delicately squeezed three drops into the open cut.
She ground an inkstick onto an inkstone and used a medicine dropper to add salt water in doses the size of tears.
Well, when I spied that little medicine dropper, half full of something, I didn't know what, but—.
The girl took the box with the sleeping kitten, the tiny dish of milk, and the medicine dropper.
He walked over to the bed, tearing open a paper packet, a small vial and medicine dropper in a gloved hand.
As Betty screwed the medicine dropper back inside its small brown bottle, I went to the microscope on a nearby counter, stared through the eyepiece and began moving the wetmount around on the stage.
It's in a diluted form so that each drop out of a medicine dropper is fifty micrograms.
Ellen passed him a beaker of dilute nitric acid and an eye dropper.