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tear·drop

(tîr′drŏp′)

1. A single tear.

2. A tear-shaped object.

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teardrop

(ˈtɪədrɒp)

a large tear that comes from the eye when crying

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tear•drop

(ˈtɪərˌdrɒp)

n.

1. a tear.

2. something shaped like a falling drop of a thin liquid, having a globular form at the bottom tapering to a point at the top.

[1790–1800]

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Noun	1.	teardrop - anything shaped like a falling drop (as a pendant gem on an earring) drop, bead, pearl - a shape that is spherical and small; "he studied the shapes of low-viscosity drops"; "beads of sweat on his forehead"
	2.	teardrop - a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands; "his story brought tears to her eyes" tear lachrymal secretion, lacrimal secretion - saline fluid secreted by lacrimal glands; lubricates the surface of the eyeball drib, driblet, drop - a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid); "he had a drop too much to drink"; "a drop of each sample was analyzed"; "there is not a drop of pity in that man"; "years afterward, they would pay the blood-money, driblet by driblet"--Kipling H2O, water - binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent

teardrop

noun

A drop of the clear liquid secreted by the glands of the eyes:

tear.

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teardrop

[ˈtɪədrɒp] N → lágrima f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

teardrop

[ˈtɪə^rdrɒp] n → larme ftear duct [ˈtɪə^rdʌkt] n → canal m lacrymal

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

teardrop

[ˈtɪəˌdrɒp] n → lacrima

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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The honoured snowy mutch, how I love to see it smiling to me from the doors and windows of the poor; it is always smiling - sometimes maybe a wavering wistful smile, as if a teardrop lay hidden among, the frills.

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In evening's limpid air, What time the dew's soothings Unto the earth downpour, Invisibly and unheard-- For tender shoe-gear wear The soothing dews, like all that's kind-gentle--: Bethinkst thou then, bethinkst thou, burning heart, How once thou thirstedest For heaven's kindly teardrops and dew's down-droppings, All singed and weary thirstedest, What time on yellow grass-pathways Wicked, occidental sunny glances Through sombre trees about thee sported, Blindingly sunny glow-glances, gladly-hurting?

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And she pushed back her heavy brown hair with both hands, and looked at him with dancing eyes in which the big teardrops were still glittering.

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