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[lop] 
verb, lopped, lop⋅ping, noun –verb (used with object)
| 1. | to cut off (branches, twigs, etc.) from a tree or other plant. |
| 2. | to cut off (a limb, part, or the like) from a person, animal, etc. |
| 3. | to cut off the branches, twigs, etc., of (a tree or other plant). |
| 4. | to eliminate as unnecessary or excessive: We had to lop off whole pages of the report before presenting it to the committee. |
| 5. | Archaic. to cut off the head, limbs, etc., of (a person). |
–verb (used without object)
| 6. | to cut off branches, twigs, etc., as of a tree. |
| 7. | to remove parts by or as by cutting. |
–noun
| 8. | parts or a part lopped off. |
| 9. | (of trees) the smaller branches and twigs not useful as timber. |
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2 [lop] verb, lopped, lop⋅ping, adjective –verb (used without object)
| 1. | to hang loosely or limply; droop. |
| 2. | to sway, move, or go in a drooping or heavy, awkward way. |
| 3. | to move in short, quick leaps: a rabbit lopping through the garden. |
–verb (used with object)
| 4. | to let hang or droop: He lopped his arms at his sides in utter exhaustion. |
–adjective
| 5. | hanging down limply or droopingly: lop ears. |
LOP
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| line of position. |
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| lop 1 (lŏp) tr.v. lopped, lop·ping, lops
[Perhaps from Middle English loppe, small branches and twigs.] lop'per n. |
| lop 2 (lŏp) intr. & tr.v. lopped, lop·ping, lops To hang or let hang loosely; droop. [Origin unknown.] |
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Lop\, n. [AS. loppe.] A flea.[Obs.] --Cleveland.Lop
Lop\, 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 sho? -- 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. Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts. --Pope. 2. To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge.Lop
Lop\, n. That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree. --Shak. Mortimer.Lop
Lop\, v. i. To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.Lop
Lop\, v. t. To let hang down; as, to lop the head.Lop
Lop\, a. Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.
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Language Translation for : lop
Spanish:
podar, recortar,
German:
abhacken,
Japanese:
切り取る
lop (1)
"cut off," 1519, from M.E. loppe (n.) "small branches and twigs trimmed from trees" (c.1420), of unknown origin.
lop (2)
"droop," 1578, probably a variant of lap (v.); cf. lopsided (1711), originally lapsided, first used of ships.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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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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