LOP (lopped, lopping)

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected forms: lopped    , lopping   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does lop mean? 

• LOP (verb)
  The verb LOP has 2 senses:

1. cut off from a whole

2. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

  Familiarity information: LOP used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they lop    ... he / she / it lops   
Past simple: lopped   
Past participle: lopped   
-ing form: lopping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cut off from a whole

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

discerp; lop; sever

Context example:

The soul discerped from the body

Hypernyms (to "lop" is one way to...):

cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)

Verb group:

break up; sever (set or keep apart)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

lopper (a long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper; used to prune small trees)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

clip; crop; cut back; dress; lop; prune; snip; trim

Context example:

dress the plants in the garden

Hypernyms (to "lop" is one way to...):

thin out (make sparse)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "lop"):

shear (cut with shears)

poll; pollard (convert into a pollard)

pinch; top (cut the top off)

disbud (thin out buds to improve the quality of the remaining flowers)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

They lop the trees

Derivation:

lopper (a long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper; used to prune small trees)

 Context examples 

The ragged nests, so long deserted by the rooks, were gone; and the trees were lopped and topped out of their remembered shapes.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This breed is characterized by white skin and the absence of black hair as well as lop ears and a long middle, light forequarter.

(Landrace Pig, NCI Thesaurus)