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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. George Bernard Shaw:

    The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.

  2. Pioneer Woman:

    So on Sunday and Monday, I’m already chopping onions and carrots and celery for Thanksgiving. Every day I’m kind of working my way there. it just makes the day so much more fun because no one wants to go to a holiday party where the host is stressed, or she’s not there because she’s in the kitchen. I’m a big proponent of prepping ahead and planning ahead and the day-of, making it as easy as pie.

  3. Donald Trump:

    They're chopping off heads of Christians and many other people in the Middle East. They're chopping heads off, they laugh at us when they hear we're not going to approve waterboarding and then they'll have a James Foley and others where they cut off their heads.

  4. Boko Haram:

    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.

  5. Steve Chesley:

    It could be that more than one of these possible mechanisms are at play, for example, thermal fracturing could be chopping the surface material into small pieces, making it far easier for meteoroid impacts to launch pebbles into space.

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