Sekirov Dictionary

pin-drop

adjective 2
noun 2
forms 4

adjective2

•
Of or relating to the sound a pin makes when dropping.
- Then Harrow made an announcement in a voice loud enough to freeze the deputies in their motion, and to bring the various cameras and microphones his way again. [...] Pin-drop silence. — 2010
•
Small or inconsequential.
- There were poems compiled in Havering library, or in my 'pin-drop' study, according to a Poeclectic gameplan — 2002

noun2

•
The sound of a small metal pin dropping onto the ground or a floor; notable because a falling pin makes almost no sound when it hits the ground except for when a setting is so quiet that even the smallest, negligible noise would be noticeable.
- Like a pin-drop in a deep ocean, the news of Amos Tutuola's death came quite unceremoniously to Nigerians early this week. His passage became almost unnoticed [...] — 1999
•
A small increment or amount.
- He made two preparations: one pin-drop of blood on one slide, and a lump the size of a pea spread thin on another. — 1940

forms

pin drops · pin-drops · more pin-drop · most pin-drop

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