Definitions for chopping
chop·ping

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. choppingnoun

   The action by which something is chopped.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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.

   by others to mean a child that would bring money at a market. Perhaps a greedy, hungry child, likely to live.

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

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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.]

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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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Chopping

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

How to pronounce chopping?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say chopping in sign language?

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. Donald Trump:

   They're chopping off the heads of Christians and anybody else that happens to be in the way. They're drowning people in steel cages.

3. Leanne Brown:

   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.

4. 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.

5. David Anderson:

   The staff whose jobs are on the chopping block because of this bring thousands of years of direct patient care experience.

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