What (who) is Lop - definition
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Lop (disambiguation)
LOP
Landscapes of practice; 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) ].
lop
Landscapes of practice; LoP
v. a.
1.
Cut, cut off, obtruncate.
2.
Dock, crop, curtail, prune, cut short.
3.
Sever, dissever, detach, cut off.
4.
Drop, let fall.
lop
Landscapes of practice; LoP
(lops, lopping, lopped)
• lop off
1.
If you lop something off, you cut it away from what it was attached to, usually with a quick, strong stroke.
Somebody lopped the heads off our tulips.
...men with axes, lopping off branches...
His ponytail had been lopped off.
= chop
PHRASAL VERB: V n P, V P n (not pron), V P n (not pron)
2.
If you lop an amount of money or time off something such as a budget or a schedule, you reduce the budget or schedule by that amount. (INFORMAL)
The Air France plane lopped over four hours off the previous best time...
More than 100 million pounds will be lopped off the prison building programme.
PHRASAL VERB: V n P n, V n P n, also V P n (not pron), V n P
Wikipedia
Lop
Lop may refer to:
- Lop County, county in Hotan, Xinjiang, China
- Lop language, a language spoken in Lop County, China
- Lop Desert, a desert in China
- Lop Nur, a group of small, now seasonal salt lake sand marshes
- Lop rabbit, several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat
Pronunciation examples for Lop
1. If you lop this off and attach it
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2. and lop the head off a multi-billion dollar cartel.
The Fast and the Furious 4 (2009)
3. To lop several nines off the availability of S-3,
Happiness Quantified _ George MacKerron _ Talks at Google
4. What we say is we'll just lop off the left hand tail.
The Most Important Thing - Origins and Inspirations _ Howard Marks _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of Lop
1. Nor may they know yet which bits of the "big state" they will lop off.
2. The militants used to grab young men with long hair and lop it off in public.
3. The American and European governments are responding with a lop–sidedness that ignores these realities.
4. Perhaps they were wondering about the lop–sided squad and the ill–fitting tactics.
5. Republicans redrew the district to lop off Barrow‘s hometown of Athens–Clarke County, a Democratic stronghold.