DROPOUT

dropout

(noun) someone who quits school before graduation

dropout

(noun) someone who withdraws from a social group or environment

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

dropout (countable and uncountable, plural dropouts)

Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course

Someone who has opted out of conventional society.

One who suddenly leaves anything, or the act of doing so.

(cycling) The slot in the frame that accepts the axles of the wheels.

A damaged portion of a tape or disk, causing a brief omission of audio, video, or data.

Momentary loss of an electronic signal.

A technique for regularizing a neural network by discarding a random subset of its units.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

18 November 2024

AWRY

(adjective) not functioning properly; “something is amiss”; “has gone completely haywire”; “something is wrong with the engine”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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