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Definition of Drop open
1. Verb. Open involuntarily. "Her jaw dropped"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drop Open
Literary usage of Drop open
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Controllers for Electric Motors: A Treatise on the Modern Industrial by Henry Duvall James (1919)
"If the current should drop to a low value after the motor has reached full speed,
the switch may drop open. To correct this latter difficulty a shunt hold ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"... drawn along the bottom; it is then raised, and its bottom being made to drop
open, the contents fall into the barge moored alongside of the dredge. ..."
3. Theoretical and Practical Electrical Engineering: Comprising a Course of by Louis Denton Bliss (1922)
"This short-circuits the path through Si and S2 and they drop open. At the same
time, holding coil 7/3 is thrown across the line to keep switch Ss closed. ..."
4. Report on the Colorado Strike by George P. West (1915)
"They might be willing to drop open active support by degrees, but I am inclined
to think that where recognition has been the principle for which they have ..."
5. The Science of Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1915)
"... this relay will open the control circuit to the contactors on that car and
the contactors will drop open. When current is restored to the car the relay ..."
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