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lop
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?p/
- Rhymes: -?p
Etymology 1
From Middle English loppe (“bough”); the verb is a back-formation from the noun.
Verb
lop (third-person singular simple present lops, present participle lopping, simple past and past participle lopped or lopt)
- (transitive, usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
- 1742, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality, Night I
- Some, for hard masters, broken under arms,
- In battle lopt away, with half their limbs,
- Beg bitter bread thro’ realms their valour sav’d,
- 1742, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality, Night I
- To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
- To allow to hang down.
- to lop the head
Synonyms
- (to cut off): snead
Derived terms
- lopper, loppers
Translations
Noun
lop (plural lops)
- That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
See also
- defalcate
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “lop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Etymology 2
From Middle English loppe (“flea, spider”), from Old English loppe (“spider, silk-worm, flea”), from Proto-Germanic *lupp? (“flea, sandflea", originally, "jumper”), from Proto-Germanic *luppijan? (“to jump, dart”). Cognate with Danish loppe (“flea”), Swedish loppa (“flea”). Compare also Middle High German lüpfen, lupfen (“to raise”, obsolete also “to rise”).
Noun
lop (plural lops)
- (Tyneside) A flea.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cleveland to this entry?)
- Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.
References
- Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
- A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN
- lop in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “lop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]
- Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
- A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896, [2]
- Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[3]
Etymology 3
Back-formation from lopsided.
Noun
lop (plural lops)
- (US, dated, slang) (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.
- 1935: Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men, p5
- "He's a lop; it mentions here about his getting up to the stand with his crippled leg but it doesn't say which one."
- 1935: Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men, p5
- Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.
See also
- lob
Anagrams
- LPO, PLO, POL, Pol., pol
A-Pucikwar
Etymology
From Proto-Great Andamanese *lap
Verb
lop
- to count
References
- Juliette Blevins, Linguistic clues to Andamanese pre-history: Understanding the North-South divide, pg. 21 (2009)
Franco-Provençal
Etymology
Probably influenced by French loup, from Latin lupus. Doublet of naturally inherited luef.
Noun
lop m (plural lops)
- wolf
Hungarian
Etymology
Of unknown origin. First attested around 1519. Another possible citing as a proper noun in 1086 is also mentioned.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?lop]
- Rhymes: -op
Verb
lop
- (transitive) to steal, to shoplift (from someone -tól/-t?l)
Conjugation
Derived terms
(With verbal prefixes):
Descendants
References
Further reading
- lop in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch loop, from Middle Dutch lôop, from Old Dutch *l?p.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?l?p?]
- Hyphenation: lop
Noun
lop (plural lop-lop, first-person possessive lopku, second-person possessive lopmu, third-person possessive lopnya)
- barrel (of a firearm)
- Synonym: laras
Further reading
- “lop” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Middle English
Noun
lop
- Alternative form of loppe (“spider”)
Occitan
Etymology
From Old Occitan lop, from Latin lupus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?lup]
Noun
lop m (plural lops, feminine loba, feminine plural lobas)
- wolf
Derived terms
Veps
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *loppu.
Noun
lop
- end
Volapük
Noun
lop (nominative plural lops)
- opera
Declension
Derived terms
- lopöp
- lopül
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reduce
English
Etymology
From Middle English reducen, from Old French reducer, from Latin red?c? (“reduce”); from re- (“back”) + d?c? (“lead”). See duke, and compare with redoubt.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???dju?s/, /???d?u?s/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???du?s/
- Rhymes: -u?s
Verb
reduce (third-person singular simple present reduces, present participle reducing, simple past and past participle reduced)
- (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
- (intransitive) To lose weight.
- (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
- 1815, Walter Scott, Guy Mannering
- My father, the eldest son of an ancient but reduced family, left me with little.
- a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Folly of Scoffing at Religion
- nothing so excellent but a man may falten upon something or other belonging to it whereby to reduce it .
- 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes
- Having reduced their foe to misery beneath their fears.
- Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced.
- 1815, Walter Scott, Guy Mannering
- (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
- (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
- (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
- 2011, Edward Behr and James MacGuire, The Art of Eating Cookbook: Essential Recipes from the First 25 Years.
- Serve the oxtails with mustard or a sauce made by reducing the soup, if any is left, to a slightly thick sauce.
- 2011, Edward Behr and James MacGuire, The Art of Eating Cookbook: Essential Recipes from the First 25 Years.
- (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
- (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
- (transitive, computer science) To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
- (transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form
- (transitive, law) To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)
- (transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
- (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
- (transitive, military) To strike off the payroll.
- (transitive, Scotland, law) To annul by legal means.
- (transitive, obsolete) To translate (a book, document, etc.).
Synonyms
- (to bring down): cut, decrease, lower
- (cooking): inspissate; see also Thesaurus:thicken
Antonyms
- (to bring down): increase
Related terms
Translations
See also
- reducing agent
References
- reduce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Italian
Etymology
From Latin redux (“that returns”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?r?.du.t??e/
Adjective
reduce (plural reduci) (da)
- returning (from)
- Synonym: ritornato
Noun
reduce m or f (plural reduci)
- survivor
- Synonym: sopravvissuto
- veteran (of a conflict)
- Synonyms: veterano, ex combattente
Anagrams
- ducere
Latin
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /re?du?.ke/, [r??d?u?k?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /re?du.t??e/, [r??d?u?t???]
Verb
red?ce
- second-person singular present active imperative of red?c?
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?re.du.ke/, [?r?d??k?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?re.du.t??e/, [?r??d?ut???]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?re.du.ke/, [?r?d??k?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?re.du.t??e/, [?r??d?ut???]
Adjective
r?duce
- ablative masculine singular of r??dux
- ablative feminine singular of r??dux
- ablative neuter singular of r??dux
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin reducere, French réduire, based on duce. Compare the inherited doublet ar?duce.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /re?dut?e/, [re??d?ut?e?]
Verb
a reduce (third-person singular present reduce, past participle redus) 3rd conj.
- (transitive) to reduce, to lessen
Conjugation
Derived terms
Related terms
- duce
See also
- ar?duce
Spanish
Verb
reduce
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of reducir.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of reducir.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of reducir.
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