Let's get acquainted with another language borrowing that enriched the "great and mighty" slang of modern youth. The word "drop" is a rather widely used term in many areas of the virtual and real world.
Drop in translation from English means - drop, sip, recession (noun), for the verb drop it is translated as follows: drop, drop, drop, etc. It is the second meaning that has taken root in the Russian language.
Drop in computer games
Let's start with all your favorite computer games. Moreover, it is among gamers (computer players) that the word "drop" is most widely used. As an example, consider the well-known Minecraft game, where future gates and zuckerberg brands hone their skills in rebuilding and capturing the world, spending all their free time doing this.
So, a drop in Minecraft is things or objects dropped by mobs (non-player characters) after death, or dropped from blocks after their destruction. In other words, this is a bonus received by a player either as a result of victory over an opponent, or found by chance in hiding places, giving his possessor additional characteristics, skills or resources.
Therefore, for getting a drop or, as it is also called, loot (from the English loot - production), serious passions boil in the game. There are several types of game bonuses in Minecraft: ordinary, rare (starting from game version 1.2) and exclusive, called the scope of experience (with 1.8 beta version).
As the name of the gradations indicates, the likelihood of ordinary items falling out is maximum (they are present in almost every mob), while getting more tasty buns is much less likely and depends on the player’s level (level), as well as the level of development of the “Looting” property.
However, it must be borne in mind that it is not worthwhile to “wet” everything that moves for the sake of receiving prizes, since production does not fall from peaceful peasants and young monsters. It is also worth noting that an ordinary and rare drop when it falls out will lie until the game character picks it up, while the embossed sphere of experience is sent in the form of a foggy cloud to the player closest to her.
Drop and Internet scammers
Now let's move from wild, but cute game monsters to, though not so bloodthirsty, but much more dangerous in real life drops. When surfing the Internet, you can often come across ads with job offers in the field of electronic commerce without investing. All that is required is to create a personal account and give its details to the employer.
Then it remains only to monitor its condition and upon receipt of funds to transfer them at the required details. Payment is usually a percentage of the amount transferred. If you agree to such tidy conditions, then congratulations, in the work book you can make a record - "Drop".
In the described case, a drop is a dummy, the lowest link of a criminal group, performing intermediate functions of transferring funds from stolen or hacked credit card accounts.
Previously, the circuit looked something like this. “Carder” with the help of fake online stores, casinos and other guarantors of the future fabulous wealth receives information about the financial details of unsuspecting users. “Checker” pours dumps of stolen credit cards onto “white plastic” (blanks for credit cards). "Mule" makes withdrawals through an ATM.
Since the chain of movement of funds is short and easy to track, in addition, modern ATMs are equipped with video surveillance cameras, this method of illegal enrichment was quickly stopped. By pumping money from one account to another, the scheme is lengthened, and the search for intruders is complicated. At the same time, drop, with its real details, is the most vulnerable link. Therefore, a little earlier, a little later, representatives of law enforcement agencies will inevitably visit such a fast money lover, and it is possible that he will be solely responsible for the scammers who have disappeared into the World Wide Web.
Guitar Drop System
Even the notorious villains are not alien to universal human values, because it is so pleasant to listen to your favorite composition after the work of sinners, sitting in a comfortable armchair. But Drop also launched its insidious tentacles into music, although they look like ordinary guitar strings.
In short, for a guitar, a drop is an alternative system, for example, drop C (do), D (mi), when one or several strings are tuned (released) by the guitarist in such a way as to increase the range of available notes and simplify or speed up the taking of certain chords.
Drop-formation became popular at the end of the 20th century with the advent of groups playing in the grunge style (English grunge - dirt) and, perhaps, is advantageous only in the alternative, since most of its chips are based on this particular structure.
What is drop in electronic music
But this is not all the meanings of the word "drop" in music. In EDM (Electronic Dance Music) direction, this term means the best, "downhole" part of the track's composition. It all depends on the flight of the DJ’s musical fantasy, when the most vivid and explosive accents of the main melody are used.
Drop cable
From music we will return to our computers, and more precisely to devices that transmit information traffic, and find out what a drop cable is.
In the most general case, this is any short cable connecting the computer’s network adapter to an external transceiver. It allows you to easily turn off computers and reconnect to the network so that the user can freely move them in the room.
It is a fiber optic cable in a thin outer sheath, capable of transmitting a light pulse over a large distance with virtually no distortion.
Abandoned domains
Let us dwell on another (but not the last) widespread drop in relation to a domain name, which, as you know, serves to identify the location of a site on the Internet.
From all of the above, one can easily guess that the term "bogged down domain is applicable to domain names ruthlessly abandoned by their cruel owners to the merits of neglect or knowingly. That is, the owners did not make timely payments to the registrar for renewing the use of the domain name. And so, they are lying on the server graveyard, and “satellites” circling above them (promoting the main site using auxiliary ones), “cybersquatters” (domain hunters, consonant with well-known brands), saving the very same from oblivion unable copies.
And most of all the chances to survive are the old-timers of the network, which for search engines have a number of undeniable advantages over beginners, as well as easy-to-remember, short domain names.
So, drop by drop (drop by drop) we got acquainted with the most commonly used meanings of the short but, as it turned out, very capacious word "drop".