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Definition: Chop |
ChopNoun1. 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. 3. A grounder that bounces high in the air. Verb1. Cut into pieces; "Chop wood". 2. Move suddenly. 3. Strike sharply, as in some sports. 4. Cut with a tool. 5. Hit sharply. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "chop" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
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Computing | CHOP /chop/ n. [IRC] See channel op. Source: Jargon File. |
Literature | Chop and ~~~Chops. Chops. Chop and change (To). To barter by the rule of thumb. Boys "chop" one article for another (Anglo-Saxon, cip-an, or ceáp-ian, to sell or barter). A mutton chop is from the French coup-er, to cut off. A piece chopped off. The wind chops about. Shifts from point to point suddenly. This is cip-an, to barter or change hands. ( See above To Chop And Change.) "How the House of Lords and House of Commons chopped round."- Thackeray: The Four Georges (George I.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Military & Defense | The date and time(Greenwich Mean Time/Greenwich Civil Time)at which the reponsibility for operational control of a force or unit passes from one operational control authority to another. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. To break up and drill through boulders, other rock, or lost core encountered in sinking a drivepipe or casing through overburden. It is done by impact produced by lifting and dropping a chopping-bit-tipped string of drill rods.b. Som. A local term for fault. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | CHOP. A blow. Boxing term. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Sports & Leisure | The fore end of a gaff which half encircles the mast, the prongs of which are called cheeks or horns. It is also called throat. . . also chop BONMA 71 1-. . Source: European Union. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CHOP | English | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: ChopSynonyms: chop shot (n), chopper (n), chop up (v), hack (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Change | Verb: change, alter, vary, wax and wane; modulate, diversify, qualify, tamper with; turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert; pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume. |
Destruction | Deal destruction, desolate, devastate, lay waste, ravage gut; disorganize; dismantle; (render useless); devour, swallow up, sap, mine, blast, bomb, blow to smithereens, drop the big one, confound; exterminate, extinguish, quench, annihilate; snuff out, put out, stamp out, trample out; lay in the dust, trample in the dust; prostrate; tread under foot; crush under foot, trample under foot; lay the ax to the root of; make short work of, make clean sweep of, make mincemeat of; cut up root and branch, chop into pieces, cut into ribbons; fling to the winds, scatter to the winds; throw overboard; strike at the root of, sap the foundations of, spring a mine, blow up, ravage with fire and sword; cast to the dogs; eradicate. |
Disjunction | Sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind; circumcise; cut; incide, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend; rend asunder, rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice. |
Food | Alligator pear, apple; apple slump; artichoke; ashcake, griddlecake, pancake, flapjack; atole, avocado, banana, beche de mer, barbecue, beefsteak; beet root; blackberry, blancmange, bloater, bouilli, bouillon, breadfruit, chop suey; chowder, chupatty, clam, compote, damper, fish, frumenty, grapes, hasty pudding, ice cream, lettuce, mango, mangosteen, mince pie, oatmeal, oyster, pineapple, porridge, porterhouse steak, salmis, sauerkraut, sea slug, sturgeon ("Albany beef"), succotash, supawn, trepang, vanilla, waffle, walnut. |
Indication | Badge, criterion; countercheck, countermark, countersign, counterfoil; duplicate, tally; label, ticket, billet, letter, counter, check, chip, chop; dib; totem; tessera, card, bill; witness, voucher; stamp; cacher; trade mark, Hall mark. |
Reasoning, | Verb: reason, argue, discuss, debate, dispute, wrangle- argufy, bandy words, bandy arguments; chop logic; hold an argument, carry on an argument; controvert; (deny); canvass; comment upon, moralize upon; spiritualize; consider; (examine). |
Shortness | Retrench, cut short, obtruncate; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew; cut down, pare down; clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop; snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of; foreshorten. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Chop |
| English words defined with "chop": ax, axe ♦ blender ♦ Chop dollar, Chopping, Chopping block, chow mein ♦ hash, hatchet ♦ lambchop, liquidiser, liquidizer ♦ mutton chop ♦ porkchop ♦ Snig. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "chop": CHINAMAN, CHOP CHURCHES, Chop Logic ♦ FARM-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ lcc ♦ OP ♦ POLO. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "chop": haggis. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Chop" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Pidgin English (food). |
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Screenplays | Well prepare yourself for pork chop! (Toy Story 2; writing credit: John Lasseter; Peter Docter) Don't be hard on the wee boy. His father is going to ga-ga and chop 'em all into haggis (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) And chop the firewood (AlfTales; writing credit: Bradley Kesden; Mitchell Kriegman) Chop her up for fire wood (Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly; writing credit: Brian Comport; Maisie Mosco) Chop chop (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray; Harold Ramis) | |
Lyrics | Chop you down to size (Where My Girls At; performing artist: 702) Cause I chop rocks the size of mentos (Young'n; performing artist: Fabolous) Chop chop, chunk it up fat man herb (Saturday (Oooh! Oooh!); performing artist: Ludacris) Chop another line like a coda with a curse, (Semi-Charmed Life; performing artist: Third Eye Blind) | |
Tongue Twisters | Chop shops stock chops. (references; author: unknown) Sherman shops at cheap chop suey shops. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hop and Chop (1970) Pork Chop Phooey (1965) Pardon My Lamb Chop (1948) Chop Suey (1930) | |
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 | [Army nurses learn to eat with chop sticks]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Drought refugee families from Oklahoma on road to Roswell, New Mexico, to chop cotton. Near Lordsburg, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Negro sharecropper with twenty acres. He receives eight cents a day for hoeing cotton. Brazos riverbottoms, near Bryan, Texas. "Some of 'em don't get nothin'. They just make these niggers chop that cotton." Few leave the bottoms. "They ain't got nothin' t. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pauline Clyburn, rehabilitation client, and her children going to chop cotton. Manning, Clarendon County, South Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Chop Saw 1" by Dan Mulligan Commentary: "Close up of Dewalt compound miter saw." |
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 | Blender; blending; blended; blends; motor; Cuisinart; whirl; whirling; chop; chopping; mix; mixing; liquefy; liquefying; daiquiri; margarita; blended drink; cocktail; pina colada. | | Bonk; bang; bat; bell ringer; belt; biff; blow; buffet; bump; butt; chop; clash; clip; clout; collision; cuff; fisticuff; glance; haymaker; impact; knock; leather; lick; one-two; one-two punch; paste; pat; plunk; punch; rap; rap; roundhouse; shock; shot; . |
| Cut; chop; axe; cleave; clip; cube; dice; divide; fell; fragment; hack; hackle; hash; hew; lop; mangle; mince; sever; shear; slash; truncate; whack. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Abraham Lincoln | If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax. |
Auguste Rodin | I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.] |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Laura Schlessinger | Da, da, da, da, da, da. It is amazing how people chop away at each other. That's the one I have to work on a lot all the time, yeah, because I'm a very intense person. |
Rush Limbaugh | The answer is more baseball bats, more pianos, more homes, more of the beautiful things you can do with trees once you chop them down. |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Their lives ended in places called Belleau Wood, The Argonne, Omaha Beach, Salerno and halfway around the world on Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Pork Chop Hill, the Chosin Reservoir, and in a hundred rice paddies and jungles of a place called Vietnam. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Chop" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 33.92% of the time. "Chop" is used about 457 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 33.92% | 155 | 25,240 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 31.73% | 145 | 26,217 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 31.73% | 145 | 26,217 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.41% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (common) | 0.22% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 457 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "chop": chop about ♦ chop about and change ♦ chop and change ♦ chop and leach ♦ chop and leach process ♦ chop at ♦ chop back ♦ chop coarsely ♦ Chop dollar ♦ chop down ♦ chop finely ♦ chop in ♦ chop in two ♦ chop meat ♦ chop of tea ♦ chop off ♦ chop one's way through ♦ chop one's words ♦ chop out ♦ chop round ♦ chop shop ♦ chop shot ♦ Chop sooy ♦ chop sticks ♦ chop suey ♦ chop throttle ♦ chop through ♦ chop up ♦ chop up finely ♦ chop van motorhome ♦ chop wood ♦ Chowchow chop ♦ first chop ♦ get the chop ♦ Grand chop ♦ karate chop ♦ lamb chop ♦ mutton chop ♦ of the first chop ♦ pork chop ♦ seed chop ♦ throttle chop ♦ To chop logic ♦ veal chop. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "chop": chop-block, chop-board, chop-chop, chop-chop!, chop-house, chop-houses, chop-job, Chop-logic, chop-off-their-willies, chop-orientated, chop-sticks, chop-suey greens, chop-sueys, chop-variants. | |
Ending with "chop": mutton-chop. | |
Containing "chop": pork-chop-shaped. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
pork chop recipe | 954 | barbecue chop pork | 58 |
pork chop | 391 | pork chop marinade | 57 |
chop suey | 371 | pork chop hill | 55 |
chop | 287 | fried pork chop | 47 |
stuffed pork chop | 140 | chop house ranch saddle | 43 |
lamb chop | 139 | bob steak and chop house | 40 |
chop saw | 134 | chop wood | 39 |
grilled pork chop | 129 | breaded pork chop | 36 |
baked pork chop | 116 | boneless pork chop recipe | 35 |
chop house | 104 | chop recipe suey | 35 |
lamb chop recipe | 86 | grilling pork chop | 35 |
chop lyrics suey | 79 | american chop suey | 34 |
recipe stuffed pork chop | 78 | chop down suey system | 34 |
chop shop | 78 | chop easy pork recipe | 33 |
chop stick | 74 | chop denver house | 30 |
chicago chop house | 70 | chop crock pork pot | 30 |
avi chop | 69 | toss and chop | 29 |
baked pork chop recipe | 63 | veal chop | 29 |
chop grilled pork recipe | 61 | chop down lyrics suey system | 29 |
chop top | 58 | smothered pork chop | 28 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "chop"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | copëtoj (break, break in pieces, crack up, cut to pieces, cut up, disintegrate, dismember, dissect, fissure, fragment, joint, mangle, maul, rend, rip up, sever, sunder), pres (amputate, anticipate, await, be asking for, be expecting, be on the watch, be waiting, bide, buck, clip, coin, cut, cut away, cut open, detruncate, disforest, dissect, entertain, expect, exscind, fell, hew, host, knife, look for, look forward to, mince, mint, Nick, notch, obtruncate, poll, prune, screw, section, sever, shut off, sit on the fence, slash, slot, snip, take, Tarry, undercut, wait, ween, whack), ndryshoj drejtimin, kotëletë (cutlet), goditje (assault, bang, bash, batting, beat, biff, blow, buffet, bump, cant, clean and jerk, clip, dash, dint, drive, fib, flap, hit, ictus, impingement, incitement, infliction, jab, joggle, jolt, knock, knocking, lick, percussion, poke, pound, push, shock, slat, sock, stimulus, strike, stroke, thrust, thwack, tremor, welt), bërxollë. (various references) | |
Arabic | فرم (devil, hash, mince, rip), هرم (age, aged, he is getting on, old man, pyramid), قطع بفأس, وجه ضربة خاطفة, غير إتجاه (come about, reverse direction, tack about), حطب (firewood, firing, hew, log, wood), تحول (convert, evolution, inconstancy, juncture, metamorphosis, modification, modify, mutate, mutation, reduction, switch, transference, transform, transformation, transfusion, transition, transmutation, turn, turn into, turnover), تبدل (alter, alteration, change, convert, transform), ضلع (groin, rib, side), ضربة قوية (bounce, crack, knocking, slog, slug, thump), ضرب الكرة (bat, drive, poach, serve), ختم (cachet, close, conclude, frank, impress, impression, imprint, round off, seal, seal ring, sealing, set one's hand to, sign off, signet, stamp, stamp about, stamping, subscribe, wind up, wrap up). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кълцам (hack, mince, snip), пържола, насичам (cut in very small pieces, dismember, flench, flense, hack, haggle, hew down, massacre), отсичам (cut down, cut off, cut short, decide firmly, hew, intercept, lop, slice off, snap, strike off, stump), говоря отсечено, колебая се (balance, boggle, crane, demur, dilly dally, dither, falter, fluctuate, hang back, hesitate, hover, hum and haw, jib, pause, pendulate, scruple, seesaw, shilly shally, teeter, vacillate, vibrate, waver, whiffle, wobble, yo-yo), промяна (alteration, change, countermarch, innovation, mutation, permutation, reversal, sea change, shift, transition, transmutation, turn, turnover, variance, variation), котлет (cutlet), уволнение (chuck, discharge, dismissal, dismission, gate, muster out, release, separation, walking orders), търговска марка (logo, trademark), челюст (chap, jaw, jowl, shoe, slipper), разменям (barter, change, exchange, negotiate, pick up, swap, swop, trade, trade off, truck), разсичам (cleave, dissect, hack, slash, slit), сека (cut, fell, haggle, hew, incuse, slash, slice, stamp, strike), удар (bang, bat, blow, buff, buffet, butt, clash, clump, counter, cut, dint, go off, hit, impact, impingement, jab, jar, keystroke, knock, pass, pelt, percussion, push, rap, shake, shock, shy, smack, smash, strike, stroke, thrust, touch, turn, whack, whiplash, wipe), кос удар (hook). (various references) | |
Chinese | 剁 . (various references) | |
Czech | seknutí (cut, hack, slash, stroke, sweep), sekat (cut, hack, hew, mow, scythe), povolení (authorization, dispensation, grant, leave, licence, license, permission, permit, sanction), krájet na drobno, kotleta (cutlet, steak), řezat (bite, cut, guillotine, saw), úder (beat, blow, buffet, bump, coup, dash, hit, percussion, push, rap, shock, stroke, swipe, thrust), štípat (bite, cleave, cut, pinch, punch, scratch, smart, split). (various references) | |
Danish | ændring af operativ kontrol (change of operational control). (various references) | |
Dutch | kappen (curl, cut, do, drop, hack, overthrow). (various references) | |
Esperanto | haki (cut, hack), haketi (dice, mince), dishaki (chop up). (various references) | |
Faeroese | høgga (cut, hack). (various references) | |
Farsi | جداکردن (Abrupt, Abstract, Amputate, Analyze, Calve, Cleave, Cutoff, Detach, Disconnect, Dissociate, Disunite, Divide, Drawoff, Insulate, Intercept, Part, Partition, Rive, Rupture, Select, Separate, Sequester, Sever, Try, Uncouple, Unlink, Untwist, Unzip), ریزریزکردن (Comminute, Mince), شکستن (Break, Cleave, Crackle, Disobey, Fraction, Fracture, Infract, Infraction, Nick, Refract, Shatter, Smite, Stave, Violate), بریدن (Amputate, Carve, Cut, Cutback, Cutoff, Dock, Gash, Hack, Haggle, Hew, Intercept, Mangle, Rase, Rift, Sect, Sever, Shear, Slice, Sliver, Stag, Stump, Sunder, Whittle). (various references) | |
Finnish | hakata (cut, hack, hew). (various references) | |
French | hacher (chaff), côtelette. (various references) | |
German | kotelett (cutlet), hacken (chop at, chopping, cut, grind, hack, heel, hoe, hoes, mattocks, mince, Peck, pick, to chop), hauen (bash, beat, belt, carve, chuck, clap, clobber, clout, conk, cut, cutting, fling, hack, hew, hewed, hit, hoes, knock, lash out, make a thrust, quarry, sculpture, shove, slap, slash, sock, strike, thump, to bash). (various references) | |
Greek | τσεκουριά. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מכה חזקה (crack, wallop), לקטע (lop off, segment), לקצוץ (allocate, cut, destroy), לקצץ (clip, cut down, hack, hackle, lop, maul, prune, scale down, slash, whittle down), לחטוב (chisel, hew). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hússzelet (steak), hullámzás (fluctuation, sea, undulation, wash, waving), nyesés (cut, paring, shearing, trimming), bordaszelet (cutlet), csapás (adversity, affliction, attack, bane, calamity, clash, dent, disaster, follow-up attack, hack, hit, ills, misfortune, plague, raid, runway, slap, sorrow, strike, striking, stroke, thrust, track, tribulation, whack), csapkodás (beating, flap, flounce, spatter, thrash, thrashing), csereüzlet (barter, exchange, truck), hivatali engedély, hivatali pecsét, állkapocs (chap, jaw, jawbone, jaws, jowl, mandible), minőség (baseness, brand, grade, nature, performance, prime, quality, standard), völgyszoros, nyesett labda, repedés (cleft, crack, cranny, fission, fissure, flake, flaw, rictus, rift, slit, spring, tear), satupofa, szecska (chaff), toka (chap, dewlap, double chin, gill, jowl), torkolat (debouchment, embouchure, estuary, Firth, issue, jaw, jaws, Lough, mouth, outfall), változás (about-face, alteration, change, conversion, fluctuation, let-up, mutation, round, shift, transformation, variation), védjegy (brand, trademark), jegy (bill, brand, Mark, note, sign, ticket). (various references) | |
Indonesian | cincang (hack, mince), pukulan (beating, knock, punch, smack), gebrakan (slap). (various references) | |
Italian | tritare (chop up, crush, grind, hash, kibble, mangle, mash, mince), costoletta (cutlet). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | チョコレート色 (apparent and grievous error, Chile, chocolate brown, chopper, flickering, very sickening, vest, waistcoat), 切れ (cloth, counter for such, cut, piece, scrap, slice, strip). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | チョップ , きれ (cloth, counter for such, cut, piece, scrap, slice, strip). (various references) | |
Korean | 절단 (Chops, Cutting, scission). (various references) | |
Malagasy | mamakivaky (to chop a bit). (various references) | |
Manx | puiss (cheek, dial, jowl, kisser, muzzle, pout), mynney (imprecation, oath-book, swear, swear-word), craue keeilley (jawbone). (various references) | |
Norwegian | hogge (hew). (various references) | |
Papiamen | kap (cut, hack). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | opchay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | picar (bite, goad, hack, hag, hash, jab, mince, pick, pique, point, prick, prickle, punch, spall, stab, stick, sting, swot, tingle). (various references) | |
Romanian | calitate a mãrfii, ciopli (carve, chip, chisel, grave, trim, Whittle), cotlet (cutlet, steak), schimbare (about-face, alteration, change, changeableness, conversion, exchange, fluctuation, modification, mutability, mutation, novelty, passage, shift, transformation, unsteadiness, vacillation, variability, variance, variation), brevet (certificate, commission, licence, license, patent), desprinde prin tãiere (cut), hãcui (cut, cut up, hack, quarter), loviturã te topor, marcã de fabricaţie, ştampilã (seal, stamp, Stamper), schimba (alter, change, commute, convert into, exchange, fashion, improve, interchange, modify, renew, replace, shift, substitute, supersede, supplant, swap, transfigure, transform, transmogrify, transmute, turn, vary), variaţie (gradient, turn, variant, variation), se schimba (alter, break, change, convert, crack, vary), sparge (annihilate, batter, break, burst, chip away, crack, crush, cut, dash, destroy, flaw, pick, rip, smash, snap, splinter, split), tãia (amputate, ax, axe, butcher, cancel, carve, carve out, castrate, clap, cleave, clip, crop, cross, Curdle, cut, cut on the bias, Dent, dissect, engrave, excise, exscind, fell, flench, foul, grave, hew, incise, intercept, kill, measure off, notch, notch off, pare, plough, prune, quarter, resect, rip, Rive, separate, sever, shear, shorten, shut the works down, slaughter, slay, slice, snick, split, Square, stop, strike out, switch off), tãia bucãţii, toca (bother, chat, hack, hash, hew, melt, mince, squander), transforma (alter, change, commute, convert, fashion, idolize, modify, permute, recast, reduce, resolve, transform, transmogrify, transmute, turn into), transformare (alteration, change, conversion, metamorphosis, modification, mutation, passage, recast, reclamation, transformation, transforming, turn), varia (alter, change, diversify, fluctuate, medley, varia, vary), pecete (seal, stamp, Stamper). (various references) | |
Russian | рубить (chisel, cut, cut down, fall, fell, hack, hackle, hew, mangle, mince). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | seckati (hash), seći (chip, clip, cut, hew, pare), odseći (amputate, chop off, cut away, detruncate, exscind, pare), odrezak (section, snip, snippet, steak, stub), oboriti (bowl over, bring down, fell, kill, knock down, lay low, override, overthrow, overturn, roll over, send down, subvert, throw down, topple, trample down, upend, vail), kotlet (cutlet, steak), šnicla (schnitzel, steak). (various references) | |
Spanish | cortar (ax, axe, bar, behead, block off, Bob, break, break in, clip, comminute, crop, cut, cut across, cut away, cut down, cut in, cut off, cut out, cut up, decapitate, detruncate, disbranch, excise, exscind, fell, hack, incise, intersect, joint, lop, lop away, lop off, lumber, mow, Nick, nip, open, pare, pick, pluck, prune, sever, shear, shear off, shear through, shut off, slice, slit, snick, strike off, tear off, trim away, trim off, turn off, turn out, Whittle), chuleta (cutlet, divot, pony, trot), cambio (adjustment, alteration, barter, break, change, changing, conjugation, conversion, corrosion, deflection, development, deviation, dislocation, displacement, distortion, do I change, evolution, exchange, gear, interchange, part exchange, shift, small change, swap, switch, switch over, swop, the change, variety, veer), cambiar (alter, back, barter, be exchanged, break, break up, change, conjure, deflect, dislocate, distort, drop, exchange, interchange, shift, swap, swap around, swap over, swap round, swing, switch, swop, to exchange, transfer, turn, turn about, turn around, turn round, vary, veer), tajar (hack, hew), tajada (cut, round, slice), picotear (Peck, peck at, pick), picar (bite, cut up, dive, goad, grind, harass, hash, itch, jab, key in, lip, mince, needle, nibble, nip, pick, ping, pink, pique, pit, pound, prick, prickle, prod, punch, smart, stab, stick, sting), partir (abandon, break, call away, chapter, cleave, come off, crack, cut, depart, district, divide, dole out, drive away, drive off, fly off, go, go alone, go away, leaving, set off, set out, share, split, split up, start off, start out, tear, tear up, throw over, walk away), golpe cortante, boca (bit, chops, drain, jaws, mouth, peen, pit, trap). (various references) | |
Swedish | hugga (carve, cut, grab, hack, hew, nab, seize, strike, swish), kotlett (cutlet), hugg (blow, cut, dig, grab, hack, slash, snatch, stab, twinge). (various references) | |
Turkish | kalite belgesi, çene (chap, chin, chinwag, chitchat, eloquence, gab, glass jaw, jaw, jawbone, jowl, mandible), çene kemiği (jawbone, mandible, maxilla), ağız (accent, beak, beestings, brim, brink, cutting edge, debouchment, dialect, edge, embouchure, gob, jaw, jaws, keen edge, kisser, lip, mouth, muzzle, opening, oral, orifice, outlet, potato trap, stoma, trap, vent, ventage), balta ile kesmek (cut down with an axe, hew, hew down), darbe (bash, beat, biff, blow, brunt, bump, clip, clout, concussion, coup, coup de main, coup d'etat, crusher, cut, dash, facer, finisher, hack, hit, ictus, impact, jolt, kayo, knock, pound, putsch, shock, smasher, stroke, thwack, whack, whammy), doğrama (chopping, cutting, slicing, woodworking), doğramak (butcher, carve, chop up, cut up, hack, hash, saw off, shred), işaret (augury, badge, character, clew, clue, cue, device, distinguishing mark, earmark, ensign, foretoken, gesture, glimpse, graph, harbinger, hint, index, indication, indicator, landmark, logo, logotype, marker, note, pip, prognostic, prognostication, representation, sign, signal, signature, symbol, symptom, token, touch, trace), kırmak (bear down, blight, breach, break, break down, bust, chill, crack, cut, dampen, discount, fracture, freeze, give offence, give offense, hurt, lacerate, offend, outrage, pique, put off, put smb.'s nose out of joint, quench, reduce, refract, Rive, ruffle smb.'s feelings, rupture, set up, shatter, skip, snap, snap off, split, stave in, sting, touch, vanquish), çırpıntı, kalite (class, grade, quality, sort, standard, water), yarmak (breach, cleave, Crimp, disrupt, flaw, hew, incise, maul, plough, plow, rend, rift, rip, sever, slash, slit, splinter, split, tear, wedge off), kesmek (abandon, amputate, Bate, blunt, break, butcher, carve, cease, chaff, chop off, clip, close, close down, crop, cut, cut back, cut off, cut out, deaden, disconnect, discontinue, dock, drop, dry up, excise, fair, fell, gash, give over, hack, hew, interrupt, intersect, kill, knife, lay off, lop, lop off, Nick, nick oneself, nip, nip off, occlude, pare, poll, prune, saw off, sever, shave, shear, shut down on, shut down upon, shut off, slash, slaughter, slice, slit, snick, stanch, staunch, stem, stop, truncate, wrap it up, wrap up), mühür (cachet, impress, seal, signature, signet), marka (brand, check, chip, identification mark, imprint, initials, jetton, Mark, stamp, title, token, trademark), pat diye söylemek (blurt out, plump, snap, snap out, spring), pirzola (cutlet, rib, rib roast), söyleyivermek (blurt out, burst in, burst out, ejaculate), vuruş (bat, battery, batting, beat, beating, crack, crusher, cut, hack, hit, impact, knock, plug, pulse, scoop, shoot, shot, sock, strike, stroke, swat, thwack, whack, wipe), yandan vuruş yapmak, yarma (incision, scission, split, splitting), külbastı (broiled meat, cutlet). (various references) | |
Turkmen | kotlet (r) (cutlet), kдtmenlemek (hoe), зybyklamak (cleave), зapmak (gallop, hop, skip). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кришити (crumble, mince, shred), перекручувати на м'ясорубці, переривати (break, catch up, intercept, intermit, interrupt), нарізувати, обривати (cut short), відбивна котлета (cutlet), відрубаний шматок, кидати (abandon, aim, buzz, cast, chuck, dart, dash, depart, desert, desolate, elance, fall away, fling, pack in, pelt, pitch, plonk, project, sling, throw, throw down, throw up, toss), печатка (signet), клеймо (burn, marking), удар (bat, beat, biff, bobbing, buffet, bunt, cant, clap, cracker, hit, impact, impingement, impulsion, jolt, kick, knock, onslaught, percussion, pick, push, put, shock, shot, smite, spat, stab, strike, stroke, tick, tilt, wap), шпурляти (chuck, dash, shoot, shove, shove down), шаткувати, штамп (clichй, die, imprint, notehead, print, punch, stamp, type), тріщина (break, chap, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, fissure, flaw, rift), щілина (air space, aperture, chap, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, notch, opening, peep), рубати (chaff, cut down, fell, hack, hackle, hew, mangle), сорт (breed, class, gender, genus, kind, nature, order, quality, sort, tap), скибка, кидатися (dash, fling, go at, rush, throw). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chán nản (crest-fallen, dark, dejected, depressed, despondent, despondingly, dispiritedly, down, down-hearted, ennuied, hatchet, heartsick, heavy, long, low-spirited, mopish, spirit, spleenful, spleenish, spleeny), vật bổ ra, thất vọng (chap-fallen, depressed, despairing, despondingly, disappointedly, downcast, heartsick, hopeless), miếng chặt ra nhát chặt, giấy phép (licence, license, permission), giấy chứng nhận (certificate, testimonial), giấy đăng ký, giây thông hành. (various references) | |
Welsh | malu (grind, mince, smash), golwyth (cut, slice). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | caedam, caedant, caedat, caede, caedebant, caedebat, caedemus, caedendos, caedens, caedent, caedente, caedentem, caedentes, caedentibus, caedere, caederent, caederentur, caedes, caedet, caedetur, caedi, caedimur, caedis, caedite, caeditur, caesa, caesi, caesis, caesorum, caesos, caesum, caesuri, caesus, ceciderant, ceciderat, ceciderint, ceciderit, cecideritque, ceciderunt, cecideruntque, cecidi, cecidimus, cecidisse, cecidissent, cecidisset, cecidisti, cecidit, ceciditque, confecta, confectaeque, confectum, confectus, confici, conficiat, conficiente, conficiet, supercecidit. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | coper, hacher. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Micah Chapter 3, Verse 3 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | On tropon katefagon taV sarkaV tou laou mou kai ta dermata autwn apo twn ostewn autwn exedeiran kai ta ostea autwn suneqlasan kai emelisan wV sarkaV eiV lebhta kai wV krea eiV cutran |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Qui comederunt carnem populi mei et pellem eorum desuper excoriaverunt et ossa eorum confregerunt et conciderunt sicut in lebete et quasi carnem in medio ollae |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Whiche eeten fleshe of my peple, and hildiden, or flewen, the skyn of hem fro aboue; and braken to gydre the bonys of hem, and kittiden to gydre as in a cawdroun, and as fleshe in the mydil of a pott. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Micah Chapter 3, Verse 3 |
| Cebuano | Nga nagakaon usab sa unod sa akong katawohan, ug nagpanit sa ilang panit gikan kanila, ug nagabali sa ilang mga bukog, ug nagatagod-tagod kanila, daw alang sa kolon, ug sama sa unod diha sa sulod sa kawa. |
| Chinese | 喫 我 民 的 肉 、 剝 他 們 的 皮 ． 打 折 他 們 的 骨 頭 、 分 成 塊 子 像 要 下 鍋 、 又 像 釜 中 的 肉 。 |
| Croatian | Oni proždiru tijelo moga naroda i deru mu kožu, lome kosti. Oni ih komadaju kao u loncu, kao meso u punom kotlu! |
| Danish | æder mit Folks Kød og flænger dem Huden af Kroppen, sønderbryder deres Ben. og breder dem som Kød i en Gryde, som Suppekød i en Kedel? |
| Dutch | Ja, zij zijn het, die het vlees mijns volks eten, en hun huid afstropen, en hun beenderen verbreken; en vaneen leggen, gelijk als in een pot, en als vlees in het midden eens ketels. |
| Finnish | Ne, jotka syövät minun kansani lihan ja nylkevät nahan heidän päältänsä ja murskaavat heidän luunsa, paloittelevat niinkuin pataan, niinkuin lihan kattilaan - |
| French | Ils dévorent la chair de mon peuple, Lui arrachent la peau, Et lui brisent les os; Ils le mettent en pièces comme ce qu`on cuit dans un pot, Comme de la viande dans une chaudière. |
| German | und fresset das Fleisch meines Volkes; und wenn ihr ihnen die Haut abgezogen habt, zerbrecht ihr ihnen auch die Gebeine und zerlegt's wie in einen Topf und wie Fleisch in einen Kessel. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kamu makan bangsaku. Kulitnya kamu sobek-sobek dan tulang-tulangnya kamu hancurkan. Kamu memotong-motong mereka seperti memotong daging untuk dimasukkan ke dalam belanga. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahkan, mereka itulah dia yang makan daging umat-Ku dan yang menguliti tubuhnya dan mematah-matahkan tulang-tulangnya, dibahagikannya dan diaturnya seperti daging dalam periuk dan seperti penggal-penggal daging dalam belanga. |
| Italian | Divorano la carne del mio popolo e gli strappano la pelle di dosso, ne rompono le ossa e lo fanno a pezzi come carne in una pentola, come lesso in una caldaia. |
| Maori | E kai na hoki i nga kikokiko o taku iwi; e tihore na i to ratou kiri i o ratou tinana, e wawahi na i o ratou wheua: ae ra, e tapatapahia rawatia ana e ratou, ano he mea mo te kohua, ano he kikokiko i roto i te kohua nui. |
| Norwegian | I som eter mitt folks kjøtt og river huden av dem og knuser deres ben og breder dem ut likesom i en gryte og som kjøtt i en panne. |
| Portuguese | os que também comeis a carne do meu povo e lhes arrancais a pele, e lhes esmiuçais os ossos, e os repartis em pedaços como para a panela e como carne dentro do caldeirão. |
| Rumanian | Dupq ce au mkncat carnea poporului Meu, dupq ce -i jupoaie pielea, wi -i sfqrkmq oasele; kl fac bucqyi; ca ceeace se fierbe kntr`o oalq, ca wi carnea dintr`un cazan, |
| Russian | ЕДЙФЕ РМПФШ ОБТПДБ нПЕЗП Й УДЙТБЕФЕ У ОЙИ ЛПЦХ ЙИ, Б ЛПУФЙ ЙИ МПНБЕФЕ Й ДТПВЙФЕ ЛБЛ ВЩ Ч ЗПТЫПЛ, Й РМПФШ--ЛБЛ ВЩ Ч ЛПФЕМ. |
| Spanish | y asimismo, coméis la carne de mi pueblo. Desolláis la piel de sobre ellos; quebrantáis y desmenuzáis sus huesos como si estuvieran destinados para la olla, como si fueran carne en el caldero. |
| Swedish | Men eftersom dessa äta mitt folks kött och riva huden av deras kropp och bryta sönder deras ben, för att stycka dem likasom det man kastar i grytan, ja, likasom kött som lägges i kitteln, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "chop": chopfallen, chophouse, chophouses, chopin, chopine, chopines, chopins, choplogic, choplogics, chopped, chopper, choppered, choppering, choppers, choppier, choppiest, choppily, choppiness, choppinesses, chopping, choppy, chops, chopstick, chopsticks. (additional references) | |
Words containing "chop": bronchopneumonia, bronchopneumonias, muttonchops, onychophoran, onychophorans, psychopath, psychopathic, psychopathically, psychopathics, psychopathies, psychopathologic, psychopathological, psychopathologically, psychopathologies, psychopathologist, psychopathologists, psychopathology, psychopaths, psychopathy, psychopharmacologic, psychopharmacological, psychopharmacologies, psychopharmacologist, psychopharmacologists, psychopharmacology, psychophysical, psychophysically, psychophysicist, psychophysicists, psychophysics, psychophysiologic, psychophysiological, psychophysiologically, psychophysiologies, psychophysiologist, psychophysiologists, psychophysiology, trichopteran, trichopterans, trochophore, trochophores, woodchopper, woodchoppers. (additional references) | |
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"Chop" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bhop, cahol, Cahpo, chapy, chep, Chepo, chho, chiop, chipp, chipy, choa, chod, choe, chog, choi, chok, chol, choop, Chooph, choopy, chopy, chor, chos, chot, chov, chox, choy, choz, chp, chro, chrp, chu, chuo, chup, chupa, coh, cohg, coph, corp, cwho, Gcho, hco, khou, nccop, Schoop, schop, Schopf, thop, Uchupi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "chop" (pronounced khÄ"p) |
| 2 | -Ä" p | atop, bop, cop, crop, drop, flop, glop, hop, knop, lop, mop, nonstop, op, plop, pop, prop, shop, Shoppe, slop, sop, stop, swap, top, wop. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-o-p" | |
-1 letter: cop, hop, poh. | |
-2 letters: ho, oh, op. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-o-p" | |
+1 letter: chomp, chops, epoch, poach, pooch, porch, pouch. | |
+2 letters: carhop, cheapo, chomps, chopin, choppy, coprah, epochs, orphic, phobic, phonic, photic, poachy, poncho, pouchy, psycho. | |
+3 letters: aphonic, aphotic, biochip, camphol, camphor, capouch, carhops, charpoy, cheapos, chomped, chomper, chopine, chopins, chopped, chopper, ciphony, copihue, coprahs, epochal, hencoop, hopsack, hospice, hypoxic, isopach, morphic, ophitic, pachuco, panocha, panoche, penoche, phobics, phocine, phonics, photics, pibroch, picacho, poached, poacher, poaches, pochard, ponchos, pooched, pooches, porches, potiche, potlach, pouched, pouches, psychos, shoepac, splotch, touchup, trophic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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