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teardrop

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tear·drop  (tîrdrp)
n.
1. A single tear.
2. A tear-shaped object.
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Noun1.teardropteardrop - 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.teardropteardrop - a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands; "his story brought tears to her eyes"
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
Translations
Spanish teardrop [ˈtɪədrɔp] nlágrima
French teardrop [ˈtɪədrɔp] nlarme f
German teardrop [ˈtɪədrɔp] tear2 nTräne f
Italian teardrop [ˈtɪədrɔp] nlacrima

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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.
"For example," said the Great Philanthropist, watching the teardrops pattering in the dust, "these early rains are of incalculable advantage to the farmer.
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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