Chop

14 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chop \Chop\, n. [See {Chap}.]
     1. A jaw of an animal; -- commonly in the pl. See {Chops}.
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     2. A movable jaw or cheek, as of a wooden vise.
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     3. The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbor, or
        channel; as, East Chop or West Chop. See {Chops}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chop \Chop\, n. [Chin. & Hind. ch[=a]p stamp, brand.]
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     1. Quality; brand; as, silk of the first chop.
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     2. A permit or clearance.
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     {Chop dollar}, a silver dollar stamped to attest its purity.
        
  
     {chop of tea}, a number of boxes of the same make and quality
        of leaf.
  
     {Chowchow chop}. See under {Chowchow}.
  
     {Grand chop}, a ship's port clearance. --S. W. Williams.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chop \Chop\, v. t. [Cf. D. koopen to buy. See {Cheapen}, v. t.,
     and cf. {Chap}, v. i., to buy.]
     1. To barter or truck.
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     2. To exchange; substitute one thing for another.
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              We go on chopping and changing our friends.
                                                    --L'Estrange.
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     {To chop logic}, to dispute with an affected use of logical
        terms; to argue sophistically.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chop \Chop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Chopped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Chopping}.] [Cf. LG. & D. kappen, Dan. kappe, Sw. kappa. Cf.
     {Chap} to crack.]
     1. To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to
        cut into pieces; to mince; -- often with up.
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     2. To sever or separate by one more blows of a sharp
        instrument; to divide; -- usually with off or down.
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              Chop off your hand, and it to the king. --Shak.
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     3. To seize or devour greedily; -- with up. [Obs.]
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              Upon the opening of his mouth he drops his
              breakfast, which the fox presently chopped up.
                                                    --L'estrange.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chop \Chop\, v. i.
     1. To purchase by way of truck.
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     2. (Naut.) To vary or shift suddenly; as, the wind chops
        about.
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     3. To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words.
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              Let not the counsel at the bar chop with the judge.
                                                    --Bacon.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chop \Chop\, n.
     A change; a vicissitude. --Marryat.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chop \Chop\, v. t. & i.
     To crack. See {Chap}, v. t. & i.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chop \Chop\, v. i.
     1. To make a quick strike, or repeated strokes, with an ax or
        other sharp instrument.
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     2. To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to
        catch or attempt to seize.
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              Out of greediness to get both, he chops at the
              shadow, and loses the substance.      --L'Estrange.
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     3. To interrupt; -- with in or out.
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              This fellow interrupted the sermon, even suddenly
              chopping in.                          --Latimer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chop \Chop\, n.
     1. The act of chopping; a stroke.
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     2. A piece chopped off; a slice or small piece, especially of
        meat; as, a mutton chop.
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     3. A crack or cleft. See {Chap}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  chop
       n 1: a small cut of meat including part of a rib
       2: a tennis return made with a downward motion that puts
          backspin on the ball [syn: {chop shot}]
       3: a grounder that bounces high in the air [syn: {chopper}]
       v 1: cut into pieces; "Chop wood"; "chop meat" [syn: {chop up}]
       2: move suddenly
       3: strike sharply, as in some sports
       4: cut with a hacking tool [syn: {hack}]
       5: hit sharply
       [also: {chopping}, {chopped}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  265 Moby Thesaurus words for "chop":
     Saratoga chop, Vandyke, alter, ameliorate, amputate, ax, bang,
     bank, barley, bash, bat, be changed, be converted into, be renewed,
     beam, beating, belt, biff, billow, bird seed, bisect, blaze, blow,
     bonk, border, bore, bottom out, box, bran, break, breakers,
     broadside, broken ground, broken water, buffet, bust, butcher,
     carve, cat food, change, checker, cheek, chicken feed,
     chop and change, choppiness, chopping sea, cleave, clip, clout,
     clump, coast, comb, comber, come about, come around, come round,
     corduroy, corduroy road, corn, corrugation, crack, crenellate,
     crenulate, crimp, crop, cube, cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off,
     cut up, cutlet, dash, degenerate, deteriorate, deviate, dice,
     dichotomize, dig, dint, dirty water, dissever, diverge, diversify,
     dog food, drub, drubbing, drumming, eagre, eatage, ensilage,
     excise, feed, fissure, flank, flop, fodder, forage, fragment,
     fusillade, gash, goose bumps, goose pimples, gooseflesh, grain,
     gravity wave, ground swell, hack, halve, hand, handedness, hash,
     haul around, haunch, hay, heave, heavy sea, heavy swell, hew, hip,
     hit, horripilation, improve, incise, indent, jab, jag, jibe,
     jigsaw, jowl, knock, knurl, lance, laterality, lick, lift, lop,
     machicolate, make mincemeat of, many-sidedness, mash, meal,
     meliorate, mill, mince, mitigate, modulate, multilaterality,
     mutate, mutton chop, nick, notch, oats, pare, paste, pasturage,
     pasture, peak, pelt, pet food, picot, pink, planking, plunk, poke,
     popple, pork chop, pound, profile, provender, prune, punch,
     quarter, rap, rend, revive, riffle, ripple, rise, rive, roll,
     roller, rough, rough water, sandpaper, saw, scallop, scarify,
     scend, scissor, score, scotch, scratch, scratch feed, sea, send,
     serrate, sever, shift, shore, side, siding, silage, slam, slap,
     slash, slice, slit, slog, slops, slug, smack, smash, snip, sock,
     spank, split, straw, stroke, sunder, surf, surge, swat, swell,
     swerve, swill, swing, swipe, tack, take a turn, tattoo, tear,
     temple, thump, thwack, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide wave, tooth,
     trough, tsunami, turn, turn aside, turn into, turn the corner,
     undergo a change, undulation, unilaterality, vary, veal chop,
     veal cutlet, veer, warp, washboard, water wave, wave, wavelet,
     whack, wheat, white horses, whitecaps, whittle, whop, worsen,
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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  CHOP /chop/ n. [IRC] See {channel op}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Chop
       
          A {code generator} by Alan L. Wendt 
          for the {lcc} {C} compiler {front end}.  Version 0.6 is
          interfaced with Fraser and Hanson's {lcc} {front end}.  The
          result is a {C} compiler with good code selection but no
          {global optimisation}.  Chop can currently compile and run
          small test programs on the {VAX}.  The {NS32k} and {68000}
          code generators are being upgraded for lcc compatibility.
       
          {(ftp://beethoven.cs.colostate.edu/pub/chop/0.6.tar.Z)}.
       
          ["Fast Code Generation Using Automatically-Generated Decision
          Trees", ACM SIGPLAN '90 PLDI].
       
          (1993-04-28)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  CHOP
       
          {channel op}