chopped, shredded, sliced
(adjective) prepared by cutting; “sliced tomatoes”; “sliced ham”; “chopped clams”; “chopped meat”; “shredded cabbage”
chop
(verb) hit sharply
chop, hack
(verb) cut with a hacking tool
chop, chop up
(verb) cut into pieces; “Chop wood”; “chop meat”
chop
(verb) strike sharply, as in some sports
chop
(verb) form or shape by chopping; “chop a hole in the ground”
chop
(verb) move suddenly
Source: WordNet® 3.1
chopped (comparative more chopped, superlative most chopped)
Cut or diced into small pieces.
(chiefly, of meat) Ground, having been processed by grinding.
(automotive, slang) Having a vehicle's height reduced by horizontal trimming of the roofline.
(slang) High on drugs.
(slang) Fired from a job or cut from a team or training program; having got the chop.
chopped
simple past tense and past participle of chop
Source: Wiktionary
Chop, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chopped; p. pr. & vb. n. Chopping.] Etym: [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.
2. To sever or separate by one more blows of a sharp instrument; to divide; -- usually with off or down. Chop off your hand, and it to the king. Shak.
3. To seize or devour greedily; -- with up. [Obs.] Upon the opening of his mouth he drops his breakfast, which the fox presently chopped up. L'estrange.
Chop, v. i.
1. To make a quick strike, or repeated strokes, with an ax or other sharp instrument.
2. To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize. Out of greediness to get both, he chops at the shadow, and loses the substance. L'Estrange.
3. To interrupt; -- with in or out. This fellow interrupted the sermon, even suddenly chopping in. Latimer.
Chop, v. t. Etym: [Cf. D. koopen to buy. See Cheapen, v. t., and cf. Chap, v. i., to buy.]
1. To barter or truck.
2. To exchange; substitute one thing for another. We go on chopping and changing our friends. L'Estrange. To chop logic, to dispute with an affected use of logical terms; to argue sophistically.
Chop, v. i.
1. To purchase by way of truck.
2. (Naut.)
Definition: To vary or shift suddenly; as, the wind chops about.
3. To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words. Let not the counsel at the bar chop with the judge. Bacon.
Chop, n.
Definition: A change; a vicissitude. Marryat.
Chop, v. t. & i.
Definition: To crack. See Chap, v. t. & i.
Chop, n.
1. The act of chopping; a stroke.
2. A piece chopped off; a slice or small piece, especially of meat; as, a mutton chop.
3. A crack or cleft. See Chap.
Chop, n. Etym: [See Chap.]
1. A jaw of an animal; -- commonly in the pl. See Chops.
2. A movable jaw or cheek, as of a wooden vise.
3. The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbor, or channel; as, East Chop or West Chop. See Chops.
Chop, n. Etym: [Chin. & Hind. chap stamp, brand.]
1. Quality; brand; as, silk of the first chop.
2. A permit or clearance. 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 April 2024
(noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
