DROPLET


Meaning of DROPLET in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

tiny

The rain fell in tiny , miserable droplets that were blown about by the wind.

Some of the vapor condenses as tiny liquid droplets that cool rapidly.

Through her half-closed eyelids she could see the tiny droplets of water glistening on his skin.

It is only infectious in tiny airborne droplets of 5 microns or less, breathed into the lungs.

■ NOUN

water

When water diffuses into an elastomer the water droplets form impurity sites.

As frozen crystals come into contact as water droplets they fuse together forming even bigger crystals.

Tilt the condensation tray at one end to prevent the water droplets from falling on the leaves and spoiling them.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Donna could feel perspiration soaking into her blouse and droplets beading on her forehead.

His heart was thudding hard against his ribs and he felt the first droplet of perspiration pop on to his forehead.

On the cabbage leaves of the cannas, huge, shining droplets of water repose.

On the map it looks rather like an amoeba in the process of ingesting two small droplets of water.

The wind whipped droplets of condensation into his face, where they mingled with his tears.

Thus to speed up the fundamental combustion process requires that the fuel droplets be made as Small as possible.

With extensive trauma or in filariasis, the presence of triglycerides increases with the triglycerides forming fat droplets.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.