chopとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English choppen, chappen (“to chop”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots chap (“to chop”). Compare Saterland Frisian kappe, kapje (“to hack; chop; lop off”), Dutch kappen (“to chop, cut, hew”), German Low German kappen (“to cut off; clip”), German kappen (“to cut; clip”), German dialectal chapfen, kchapfen (“to chop into small pieces”), Danish kappe (“to cut, lop off, poll”), Swedish kapa (“to cut”), Albanian copë (“piece, chunk”), 古期英語 *ċippian (in forċippian (“to cut off”)). Perhaps related to chip.

名詞

chop (複数形 chops)

Chopping garlic

2. A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.

   I only like lamb chops with mint jelly.

   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1962, page 18:

     Of the two fried chops served him for breakfast he ate one and gave Edmund the other, and put a buttered sandwich of bread in his pocket against the accidents of travel.

   • 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey:

     I was standing at the meat counter, waiting for some rib lamb chops to be cut.

3. A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar utensil.

   It should take just one good chop to fell the sapling.

4. (martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.

   A karate chop.

5. Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
6. (poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.

   With both players having an ace-high straight, the pot was a chop.

7. (informal, with "the") Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
8. (Australia, New Zealand) A woodchopping competition.
   • 1924 October 6, The Examiner, page 2, column 6:

     E, C. McsEnulty, who won the chop at the show on Thursday, cut through a foot lying block in 34 seconds[.]

9. (dated) A crack or cleft; a chap.

引用

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:chop.

同意語

• (dismissal, especially from employment (informal)): axe, pink slip, sack

派生した語

• → Japanese: チョップ

動詞

chop (三人称単数 現在形 chops, 現在分詞 chopping, 過去形および過去分詞形 chopped)

1. (transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.

   chop wood; chop an onion

2. (transitive) To sever with an axe or similar implement.

   Chop off his head.

3. (transitive) to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
4. (transitive, baseball) To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
5. (poker) To divide the pot (または tournament prize) between two or more players. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
6. (intransitive) To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
7. (intransitive) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
   • 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], OCLC 228727523:

     Out of a Greediness to get both, he Chops at the Shadow, and Loses the Substance.

8. (intransitive) To interrupt; with in or out.
   • 1550, Hugh Latimer, Sermon Preached before King Edward

     This fellow […] interrupted the sermon, even suddenly chopping in.

9. (computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string).

   Coordinate term: chomp

派生語