different between lacerate vs chop
lacerate
English
Etymology
From Middle English laceraten, from Latin lacer?tus, past participle of lacer?.
Pronunciation
- (verb): IPA(key): /?læ.s?.ejt/
- (verb): Hyphenation: lac?er?ate
- (adjective): IPA(key): /?læ.s?.?t/
Verb
lacerate (third-person singular simple present lacerates, present participle lacerating, simple past and past participle lacerated)
- (transitive) To tear, rip or wound.
- (transitive) To defeat thoroughly; to thrash.
Translations
Adjective
lacerate (not comparable)
- (botany) Jagged, as if torn or lacerated.
- The bract at the base is dry and papery, often lacerate near its apex.
Italian
Verb
lacerate
- second-person plural present indicative of lacerare
- second-person plural imperative of lacerare
- feminine plural of lacerato
Latin
Participle
lacer?te
- vocative masculine singular of lacer?tus
lacerate From the web:
- lacerate meaning
- what lacerated wound
- lacerated what does it mean
- what is lacerated kidney
- what does lacerated liver mean
- what is lacerated eyeball
- what is lacerated artery
- what does lacerated
chop
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: ch?p, IPA(key): /t??p/
- Hyphenation: chop
- Rhymes: -?p
Etymology 1
From Middle English choppen, chappen (“to chop”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots chap (“to chop”). Compare Saterland Frisian kappe, kapje (“to hack; chop; lop off”), Dutch kappen (“to chop, cut, hew”), German Low German kappen (“to cut off; clip”), German kappen (“to cut; clip”), German dialectal chapfen, kchapfen (“to chop into small pieces”), Danish kappe (“to cut, lop off, poll”), Swedish kapa (“to cut”), Albanian copë (“piece, chunk”), Old English *?ippian (in for?ippian (“to cut off”)). Perhaps related to chip.
Noun
chop (plural chops)
- A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
- 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey:
- I was standing at the meat counter, waiting for some rib lamb chops to be cut.
- 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey:
- A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar utensil.
- (martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
- Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
- (poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
- (informal, with "the") Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A woodchopping competition.
- (dated) A crack or cleft; a chap.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:chop.
Synonyms
- (dismissal, especially from employment (informal)): axe, pink slip, sack
Translations
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ????
Verb
chop (third-person singular simple present chops, present participle chopping, simple past and past participle chopped)
- (transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
- chop wood; chop an onion
- (transitive) To sever with an axe or similar implement.
- Chop off his head.
- (transitive) to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
- (transitive, baseball) To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
- (poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (intransitive) To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
- (intransitive) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
- (intransitive) To interrupt; with in or out.
- 1550, Hugh Latimer, Sermon Preached before King Edward
- This fellow […] interrupted the sermon, even suddenly chopping in.
- 1550, Hugh Latimer, Sermon Preached before King Edward
- (computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string).
Translations
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Of uncertain origin, perhaps a variant of chap (“cheap”). Compare Middle English copen (“to buy”), Dutch kopen (“to buy”).
Verb
chop (third-person singular simple present chops, present participle chopping, simple past and past participle chopped)
- (obsolete) To exchange, to barter; to swap.
- 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:
- this is not to put down Prelaty, this is but to chop an Episcopacy; this is but to translate the Palace Metropolitan from one kind of dominion into another, this is but an old canonicall sleight of commuting our penance.
- 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:
- To chap or crack.
- (nautical) To vary or shift suddenly.
- The wind chops about.
- (obsolete) To twist words.
- 1612, Francis Bacon, Of Judicature
- Let not the counsel at the bar chop with the judge.
- 1612, Francis Bacon, Of Judicature
- To converse, discuss, or speak with another.
Noun
chop (plural chops)
- A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Marryat to this entry?)
Derived terms
- chop and change
- chops and changes
Etymology 3
Perhaps a variant of chap (“jaw”). Compare also Middle English cheppe (“one side of the jaw, chap”).
Noun
chop (plural chops)
- (chiefly in the plural) A jaw of an animal.
- A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
- The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.
- East Chop; West Chop
Etymology 4
Borrowed from Hindi ??? (ch?p, “stamp”)
Noun
chop (plural chops)
- An official stamp or seal, as in China and India.
- A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
- silk of the first chop
- A license or passport that has been sealed.
- A complete shipment.
- a chop of tea
Derived terms
- chop dollar
- grand chop
Etymology 5
Shortening.
Noun
chop (plural chops)
- (Internet) An IRC channel operator.
- 1996, Peter Ludlow, High Noon on the Electronic Frontier (page 404)
- IRC supports mechanisms for the enforcement of acceptable behaviour on IRC. Channel operators — "chanops" or "chops" — have access to the /kick command, which throws a specified user out of the given channel.
- 1996, Peter Ludlow, High Noon on the Electronic Frontier (page 404)
Synonyms
- chanop
- op
See also
- chop chop
Nigerian Pidgin
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb
chop
- eat
- spend
Silesian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *xolp?.
Noun
chop m
- man, male
chop From the web:
- what chop suey
- what chopped judge are you
- what chopsticks should i buy
- what choppers were used in vietnam
- what chopped judge died
- what choppy means
- what chopin song is in green book
you may also like
- lacerate vs chop
- insufficiency vs want
- testy vs grizzly
- whiskered vs shaggy
- facility vs proneness
- mound vs convexity
- leg vs channel
- gathering vs jumble
- joyous vs sunny
- lustre vs beauty
- loose vs unheeding
- incite vs occasion
- copy vs parody
- prophecy vs precognition
- scrawny vs lank
- accommodating vs dedicated
- pleasant vs rainless
- unstirred vs cool
- fraction vs degree
- insist vs pronounce