Definitions for chopping
chop·ping

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. choppingnoun

   The action by which something is chopped.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Chopping

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

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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

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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. Greg Schiano:

   This is a family, man. And we’ve got to keep chopping. Keep chopping.

2. Wonder Kandenge:

   We are a small group and we're trying to reduce cutting and burning, but much more can be done. We need more resources, we are unarmed when we go to the forest and we meet people carrying pangas (big knives) and axes chopping down trees. How can we stop someone like that?

3. Donald Trump:

   I'd go through a process and get it declassified frankly ... certainly waterboarding at a minimum, 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. 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.

5. Joe Biden:

   The very idea a senator from Florida wants to put Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block every five years, I find to be somewhat outrageous, so outrageous that you might not even believe it, but that’s what he said.

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References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chopping
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=chopping
3. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chopping
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=chopping
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=chopping