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Wiktionary

  1. choppingnoun

    The action by which something is chopped.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Choppingparticipial, adj.

    An epithet frequently applied to infants, by way of ludicrous commendation: imagined by Stephen Skinner to signify lusty, from cas, Sax.

    Etymology: In this sense, of uncertain etymology.

    Both Jack Freeman and Ned Wild,
    Would own the fair and chopping child. Elijah Fenton.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Chopping

    of Chop

  2. Choppingadjective

    stout or plump; large

  3. Choppingadjective

    shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other; as, a chopping sea

  4. Choppingnoun

    act of cutting by strokes

  5. Etymology: [See Chop to barter.]

Wikidata

  1. Chopping

    In hip hop music sampling, chopping is the "altering [of] a sampled phrase [or break] by dividing it into smaller segments and reconfiguring them in a different order."

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Chopping

    chop′ing, adj. stout, strapping, plump.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of CHOPPING in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of CHOPPING in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of CHOPPING in a Sentence

  1. Jonathan Blutinger:

    There’s perhaps a stigma associated with this word (3D printing), usually with printing you think of an industrial process. (But) it’s important to realize that this is no different than cooking normally except instead of chopping the ingredients up and everything like that, the machine is basically just assembling it in paste form.

  2. Peter Moyle:

    It is a very delicate fish, but it’s just the first fish on the chopping block if we don’t manage the delta properly.

  3. Eva Longoria:

    He’s always in the kitchen, he likes to bake — you know, cookies, cake, Jell-O — and he does a lot of the chopping. He’s my sous chef.

  4. Chris Murphy:

    This revolving door of American leadership is devastating to our nation's security as our allies now turn to more stable nations -- like China and Russia -- as our foreign policy infrastructure falls apart, john Bolton was the wrong choice and the silver lining to this instability is that there will be fewer people whispering war chants in the president's ear. But no one of any quality is going to take a job in the nation's national security cabinet so long as everyone's head is permanently hovering slightly above the chopping block.

  5. Joe Biden:

    Every year, Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block. Every single year, the point is, some of you here are on Social Security, some of your parents are on Social Security, some of your grandparents are on Social Security.

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    A congius
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