{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "ʧɑp" ], "imgurl": [ "/var/www/html/blab/dic/img/chop.jpg" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/chop.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/chop.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English choppen, chappen (“to chop”), of uncertain origin, possibly an onomatopoeia. 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”), Albanian copë (“piece, chunk”), Old English *ċippian (in forċippian (“to cut off”)). Perhaps related to chip.", "Uncertain, perhaps a variant of chap (“cheap”). Compare Middle English copen (“to buy”), Dutch kopen (“to buy”).", "Perhaps a variant of chap (“jaw”). Compare also Middle English cheppe (“one side of the jaw, chap”).", "Borrowed from Hindi छाप (chāp, “stamp”). Closely related to the similarly descended Malay word cap, which likely reinforced the English usage within the Malay world.", "Shortening." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.\nI only like lamb chops with mint jelly." }, { "mean": "A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar utensil.\nIt should take just one good chop to fell the sapling." }, { "mean": "(martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.\nA karate chop." }, { "mean": "Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long." }, { "mean": "(poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.\nWith both players having an ace-high straight, the pot was a chop." }, { "mean": "(informal, with \"the\") Termination, especially from employment; the sack." }, { "mean": "(Australia, New Zealand) A woodchopping competition." }, { "mean": "(dated) A crack or cleft; a chap." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.\nchop wood; chop an onion" }, { "mean": "(transitive) To sever with an axe or similar implement.\nChop off his head." }, { "mean": "(transitive) to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand." }, { "mean": "(transitive, baseball) To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce." }, { "mean": "(poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players. (Can we add an example for this sense?)" }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To interrupt; with in or out." }, { "mean": "(transitive, Hong Kong) To stab." }, { "mean": "(computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string).\nCoordinate term: chomp" } ] }, { "name": "Derived_terms", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Terms derived from the noun or verb chop\nBaltimore chop\nbinary chop\nbust chops\nchop chord\nchop cup\nchop down\nchop house\nchop it up\nchop logic\nchop shop\nchop up\nchop-chop\nchop-logic\nchop-shop\nchoppable\nchopped and screwed\nchopped liver\nchopped-nose\nchopper\nchopping block\nchopping board\nchoppy\nchops\nchopsocky\nchopstick\nchump chop\nconfirm plus chop\nfirst-chop\nFrench chop\nget the chop\ngreenchop\nkarate chop\nmutton chop\nmutton-chop whiskers\npork chop\npork chop island\nreverse chops\nsmall chops\nthrottle chop\ntomahawk chop\ntry out one's own chops\nwalleye chop\nwoodchop" } ] }, { "name": "Verb_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(obsolete) To exchange, to barter; to swap.\n1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:\nthis 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." }, { "mean": "To chap or crack." }, { "mean": "(nautical) To vary or shift suddenly.\nThe wind chops about." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) To twist words.\n1625, Francis , “Of Judicature”, in The Essayes , 3rd edition, London: Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:Let not the counsel at the bar chop with the judge." }, { "mean": "To converse, discuss, or speak with another." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(chiefly in the plural) A jaw of an animal." }, { "mean": "A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice." }, { "mean": "The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.\nEast Chop; West Chop" } ] }, { "name": "Noun_4", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "chop (plural chops)\n\n (colloquial,India,Hong Kong,Malaysia,Singapore,Brunei) A stamp or seal; a mark, imprint or impression on a document (or other object or material) made by stamping or sealing a design with ink or wax, respectively, or by other methods. \n(colloquial,by extension,Malaysia,Singapore,Brunei) The device used for stamping or sealing, which also contains the design to be imprinted.\nA mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.\nsilk of the first chop\nA license or passport that has been sealed.\nA complete shipment.\na chop of tea" } ] }, { "name": "Verb_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive, colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) To stamp or seal (a document); to mark, impress or otherwise place a design or symbol on paper or other material, usually, but not necessarily, to indicate authenticity." }, { "mean": "To seal a license or passport." } ] }, { "name": "Derived_terms_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "chop dollar\ngrand chop\nnot much chop" } ] }, { "name": "References", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Lisa Lim(28 July 2016),“Where does the word 'chop' come from?”, inSouth China Morning Post" } ] }, { "name": "Noun_5", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(Internet) An IRC channel operator." } ] }, { "name": "See_also", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "chop chop\nchop suey" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "", "", "", "", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "파생_항", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_4", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "파생_항_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "레퍼런스", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_5", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "참고_참고", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] }, "synonyms": { "org": [ "(dismissal, especially from employment (informal)): axe, pink slip, sack" ], "kor": [ "" ] } } }