Definitions of lop [ɒp]

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Definition of 'lop'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) lop
to cut off (branches, twigs, etc.) from a tree or other plant.

2.  lop
to cut off (a limb or part) from a person, animal, etc.

3.  lop
to cut off the branches, twigs, etc., of (a tree or other plant).

4.  lop
to eliminate as unnecessary or excessive:
We had to lop off whole pages of the report.

5.  lop
Archaic. to cut off the head or limbs of (a person).

6. (v.i.) lop
to remove parts by or as if by cutting.

7. (n.) lop
parts or a part lopped off.

8. (v.i.) lop
to hang loosely or limply; droop.

9.  lop
to move in a drooping or heavy, awkward way.

10. (adj.) lop
hanging down limply or droopingly:
lop ears.

Etymology: (1570–80; v. use of obs. lop spider, dangling part of a tree; see lob)

Definition of 'lop'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) discerp, sever, lop
cut off from a whole
"His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body"

2. (verb) snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back
cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
"dress the plants in the garden"

Definition of 'lop'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) lop
hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided

2. (noun) lop
a flea

3. (noun) lop
that which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree

4. (verb) lop
to cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to sho/ -- by cutting off the extremities; to cut off, or remove as superfluous parts; as, to lop a tree or its branches

5. (verb) lop
to cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge

6. (verb) lop
to hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side

7. (verb) lop
to let hang down; as, to lop the head

Translation of 'lop'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to cut off (parts) from eg a tree We lopped several branches from the tree; He lopped a dollar off the price.
Afrikaans: afsnoei, afsny	Arabic: يَقُص، يُشَذّب، يَخْصُم	Bulgarian: подрязвам
Brazilian: cortar	Czech: osekat; srazit	German: abhacken
Danish: skære af; hugge af; slå a	Greek: κόβω	Spanish: podar, recortar
Estonian: kärpima	Farsi: هرس کردن	Finnish: karsia
French: émonder; réduire	Hebrew: לִכרוֹת	Hindi: काटना
Croatian: odsjeći	Hungarian: levág	Indonesian: memotong
Icelandic: höggva af	Italian: potare; togliere	Japanese: 切り取る
Korean: 잘라내다	Lithuanian: (ap)genėti, numušti	Latvian: apgriezt; apcirpt (zarus)
Malay: memangkas; mencantas; mem	Dutch: snoeien	Norwegian: beskjære, hogge av; gi av
Polish: obciąć	Persian: ،شاخچه برى كردن قطع کردن	Pashto: ماتول،پرى كول
Portuguese: cortar	Romanian: a tăia; a reduce (cu)	Russian: срезать
Slovak: osekať, prestrihať; zníži	Slovenian: odsekati	Serbian: potkresati
Swedish: kapa, slå av	Thai: ตัดบางส่วน	Turkish: koparmak
Taiwanese: 砍掉	Ukrainian: обрубувати гілки	Urdu: کاٹنا
Vietnamese: tỉa cành	Chinese: 砍掉
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