Crossword clues for chopping
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chopping \Chop"ping\, n. Act of cutting by strokes.
Chopping block, a solid block of wood on which butchers and others chop meat, etc.
Chopping knife, a knife for chopping or mincing meat, vegetables, etc.; -- usually with a handle at the back of the blade instead of at the end.
Chopping \Chop"ping\, a. [Cf. Chubby.]
Stout or plump; large. [Obs.]
--Fenton.
Chopping \Chop"ping\, a. [See Chop to barter.] Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other; as, a chopping sea.
Chop \Chop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chopped; p. pr. & vb. n. Chopping.] [Cf. LG. & D. kappen, Dan. kappe, Sw. kappa. Cf. Chap to crack.]
To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; -- often with up.
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To sever or separate by one more blows of a sharp instrument; to divide; -- usually with off or down.
Chop off your hand, and it to the king.
--Shak. -
To seize or devour greedily; -- with up. [Obs.]
Upon the opening of his mouth he drops his breakfast, which the fox presently chopped up.
--L'estrange.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"large and thriving," 1560s, past participle adjective from chop (v.). Compare strapping, whopping in similar sense.\n\nchopping. An epithet frequently applied to infants, by way of ludicrous commendation: imagined by Skinner to signify lusty, from cas Sax. by others to mean a child that would bring money at a market. Perhaps a greedy, hungry child, likely to live.
[Johnson]
Wiktionary
1 Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other. 2 (context obsolete English) stout; large; plump n. The action by which something is chopped. v
(present participle of chop English)
WordNet
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Wikipedia
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." (Schloss 2004, p. 106)
Chopping may refer to:
- Comminution, a crushing, grinding or similar size reduction of materials
- Cutting
- Chopping (sampling technique), a hip-hop sampling method.
- Virtual tuning
- Chopping (violin) rapid tapping with bow, used in jazz
- Chopping, an instrumental technique to remove the background in astronomy
Usage examples of "chopping".
Every axman Vaylo had ever met had nothing but contempt for weapons that relied on piercing, not chopping, blades.
Ten minutes of instruction told them all they required about their new job, and when Brumbaugh saw them whisking down the rows, chopping out unwanted beets with one swipe, he knew he had solved his problem.
Fourteen rich Milanese were driving to Albaretto for lunch, and Cesare single-handedly prepared six courses and the broths and sauces that accompanied them, moving urgently between the chopping table, the cold box, and the pots on the crowded stove.
I was sure, but I had no proof that Doakes was anything except a very angry and suspicious cop, and chopping up a cop was certainly the sort of thing the city got indignant about.
He had been through the entire list of the usuals, from Satanists all the way to half-assed dopeheads who thought they could bring on a better world by chopping the heads off calves and goats.
What did you mean when you said sending you to the Fates would be as bad as chopping you up?
Out of the corner of her eye Raina spotted pretty Lansa Tanner, her cheeks dusted with flour, fussily chopping carrots.
A wash of ice water went through his veins as he remembered what was waiting for him therethe black leather Carpet of Blood, the scarred chopping block, the pegboard display hung with various ingenious hooks, screws, winches, pulleys, and electrically heated pincers.
But whereas the scientist simplifies by a process of analysis and isolation, the politician can only simplify by compulsion, by a Procrustean process of chopping and stretching designed to make the living organism conform to a certain easily understood and readily manipulated mechanical pattern.
Some models come with canister attachments for making smoothies and chopping garlic and ginger.
I could see it through the kitchen window from where I sat, its wicked-looking edge half-buried in the chopping block by the stovewood pile.
We determined, however, to put an end to their accursed licence-hunting, mock riot-act chopping, Vandemonian shooting down our mates in Gravel-pits.
Scarpetta tied an apron around her waist and began chopping Vidalia onions, red and yellow and green bell peppers, fresh oregano, basil, and parsley.
One of the stone behemoths was at the spot almost immediately, leaning over the helpless man, its huge hand chopping down to squash Avelyn flat.
Delum began chasing the floundering Rathyd warrior about, chopping pieces from his flailing limbs.