chop
- IPA[CHäp]
美式
- cut (something) into pieces with repeated sharp blows of an axe or knife；remove something by cutting
- a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the hand；dismissal from employment
verb: chop, 3rd person present: chops, gerund or present participle: chopping, past tense: chopped, past participle: chopped
noun: chop, plural noun: chops
- 釋義
- 片語
動詞
- 1. cut (something) into pieces with repeated sharp blows of an axe or knife they chopped up the pulpit for firewood finely chop the parsley 同義詞
- ▪ remove something by cutting they chopped off all her hair 同義詞
- ▪ cut through the base of (a tree or similar plant) with blows from an axe or other implement, in order to fell it the boy chopped down eight trees 同義詞
- ▪ strike (something) with a short heavy blow, as if cutting at something.
- 2. abolish or reduce the size of (something) in a way regarded as ruthless their training courses are to be chopped 同義詞
名詞
- 1. a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the hand an effective chop to the back of the neck
- 2. dismissal from employment hundreds more workers have been given the chop
- ▪ cancellation or abolition all these projects are destined for the chop
- ▪ the action of killing someone or the fact of being killed seven men we all knew had got the chop
- 3. a thick slice of meat, especially pork or lamb, adjacent to and often including a rib he lived on liver or chops
- 4. North American crushed or ground grain used as animal feed the pile of chop was dropped into the calves' feeder
- 5. the broken motion of water, typically due to the action of the wind against the tide we started our run into a two-foot chop
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