Define the word lop"Lop" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Lop \Lop\, n.
That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree.
--Shak. Mortimer.
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"Lop" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Lop \Lop\, v. i.
To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
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"Lop" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Lop \Lop\, v. t.
To let hang down; as, to lop the head.
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"Lop" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Lop \Lop\, a.
Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound
adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.
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"Lop" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Lop \Lop\, n. [AS. loppe.]
A flea. [Obs.] --Cleveland.
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"Lop" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Lop \Lop\ (l[o^]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lopped; p. pr. & vb.
n. Lopping.] [Prov. G. luppen, lubben, to cut, geld, or OD.
luppen, D. lubben.]
1. To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to
shorten by cutting off the extremities; to cut off, or
remove, as superfluous parts; as, to lop a tree or its
branches. "With branches lopped, in wood or mountain
felled." --Milton.
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Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts.
--Pope.
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2. To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a
hedge.
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"lop" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
lop
v 1: cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body";
"The soul discerped from the body" [syn: discerp, sever]
2: cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the
plants in the garden" [syn: snip, clip, crop, trim,
dress, prune, cut back]
[also: lopping, lopped]
"lop" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
92 Moby Thesaurus words for "lop":
abscind, amputate, annihilate, bag, bagging, baggy, ballooning,
ban, bar, bob, bounce, bound, cascade, clip, crop, cull, cut,
cut away, cut off, cut out, daggle, dangle, depend, dock, drabble,
drag, draggle, drape, droop, drooping, droopy, eliminate,
enucleate, eradicate, except, excise, exclude, extinguish,
extirpate, fall, flap, flop, floppy, flow, hang, hang down, hop,
hurdle, isolate, knock off, leap, limp, loll, lollop, loose,
lop-eared, loppy, mutilate, nip, nod, nodding, pare, peel, pend,
pick out, prune, root out, rule out, sag, sagging,
sagging in folds, saggy, set apart, set aside, shave, shear, slump,
spring, stamp out, strike off, strip, strip off, swag, swing,
take off, take out, trail, trollop, truncate, vault, weep,
wipe out
"lop" vera "Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)"
LOP
Loss of Pointer (UNI)
"lop" foldoc "The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)"
LOP
A language based on first-order logic.
["SETHEO - A High-Perormance Theorem Prover for First-Order
Logic", Reinhold Letz et al, J Automated Reasoning
8(2):183-212 (1992)].
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