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chop·ping
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Wiktionary
choppingnoun
The action by which something is chopped.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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
Chopping
of Chop
Choppingadjective
stout or plump; large
Choppingadjective
shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other; as, a chopping sea
Choppingnoun
act of cutting by strokes
Etymology: [See Chop to barter.]
Wikidata
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
Chopping
chop′ing, adj. stout, strapping, plump.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Chopping in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Chopping in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of Chopping in a Sentence
I think that it should be pointed out more often that Islamic State was more successful when its propaganda wing was less developed, remember it took all that territory in Syria and Iraq largely under the noses of the international community; it was only once they started chopping off our (American) citizens' heads and bragging about it over social media that the world really united against the group. And similarly Boko Haram was much more successful before it joined up with Islamic State and before it developed its savvy media outreach.
We think of cooking as being in the kitchen, chopping the stuff, making the thing, but you can't be in there unless you've done all these other things.
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.
Senate Republican Leader Jean Fuller:
What is clear is that ambitious and expensive pet programs like high-speed rail may be on the chopping block if these auction results continue.
All they do is they trot out the same old lies, you know, the Republicans want to end Social Security, we want to put it on the chopping block. Nothing could be further from the truth, we want to save Social Security. We want to bring down inflation. We want to reduce massive deficit spending that sparked inflation.
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