What is the difference between Droop and Drop?




What is the difference between Droop and Drop? :


Droop : (verb)

(
1 ) Bend or hang downwards through tiredness or weakness

Flowers were drooping for lack of water.

Her head drooped sadly.

His spirits drooped at the news.



Drop : (noun)

(
1 ) Small rounded mass of liquid

Pour the oil in drops into the mixture.

These are drops of rain.


(
2 ) Decrease

There was a drop in prices of vegetables.



Drop : (verb)

(
1 ) Fall or allow something to fall

The bottle dropped and broke.

The climber slipped and dropped to his death.


(
2 ) Become weaker, less or lower

Her voice dropped to a whisper.


(
3 ) Allow someone to get out of a car, etc…

She dropped me near our house.


(
4 ) Send a letter, etc.. to someone

I dropped him a letter yesterday.


(
5 ) Stop seeing someone

She has dropped most of her old friends.


(
6 ) Stop doing or discussing something

Let us drop the formalities and call me SWEETY.

Look, can we just drop the subject?











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