(v. t.) To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; -- often with up.
(v. t.) To sever or separate by one more blows of a sharp instrument; to divide; -- usually with off or down.
(v. t.) To seize or devour greedily; -- with up.
(v. i.) To make a quick strike, or repeated strokes, with an ax or other sharp instrument.
(v. i.) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
(v. i.) To interrupt; -- with in or out.
(v. i.) To barter or truck.
(v. i.) To exchange; substitute one thing for another.
(v. i.) To purchase by way of truck.
(v. i.) To vary or shift suddenly; as, the wind chops about.
(v. i.) To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words.
(n.) A change; a vicissitude.
(v. t. & i.) To crack. See Chap, v. t. & i.
(n.) The act of chopping; a stroke.
(n.) A piece chopped off; a slice or small piece, especially of meat; as, a mutton chop.
(n.) A crack or cleft. See Chap.
(n.) A jaw of an animal; -- commonly in the pl. See Chops.
(n.) A movable jaw or cheek, as of a wooden vise.
(n.) The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbor, or channel; as, East Chop or West Chop. See Chops.
(n.) Quality; brand; as, silk of the first chop.
(n.) A permit or clearance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Infusion of vincristine may be safely incorporated into multiagent chemotherapy programs of the CHOP type for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
(2) Seven patients were treated with combination chemotherapy, consisting of CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone) or MOPP (chloromethine, vincristine, procarbazine, prednisone), in some cases followed by non-cross-resistant second line chemotherapy, if no complete response was attained.
(3) The lambs of the second group were given 1200-1500 g of concentrate pellets and 300 g chopped wheat straw, and those of the third group were given 800 and 1050 g each of concentrate pellets, and 540 g and 720 g of pellets of whole maize plant containing 40 per cent.
(4) Chartainvilliers) given either chopped (CL) or ground (1.96 mm screen) and pelleted (PL), was measured in a comparative slaughter experiment.
(5) Chop-U units have CVs greater than 0.35, show a decrease in irregularity during the response, and show a variety of rate adaptation behaviors, including negative adaptation (an increase in rate during a short-tone response).
(6) Addictive onion consumption was prevented by mixing chopped or crushed onions in a total balanced ration.
(7) He was treated with CHOP therapy but with no response.
(8) Based on a preliminary trial that suggested that CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone), and PVB (cisplatinum, vinblastine, bleomycin), are at least partially non-cross-resistant, the Southwest Oncology Group treated patients with unfavorable histology, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with CHOP and PVB.
(9) Chris Hagan, managing director of the factory, says: "If you chopped them into smaller pieces, you could sell them to B&Q."
(10) As the result of differences in drug intake by individual calves, a pelleted feed additive given as top dress on chopped alfalfa hay gave an unsatisfactory mean anthelmintic response.
(11) Lincomycin-resistant Clostridium sporogenes obtained from the stools of a patient with lincomycin-associated pseudomembranous colitis produced a heat-stable cytotoxin in low titre when grown in chopped meat medium.
(12) From 1970 to 1988, 121 patients younger than 18 years of age with newly diagnosed Hodgkin's disease were treated at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP).
(13) The present study demonstrates that adrenal glands removed from rats and then chopped release an immunoreactive digitalis-like material into a serum-free minimal incubation medium.
(14) Remnants of each atrial specimen were chopped and added to the tissue bath.
(15) Direct inoculation to cefoxitin-cycloserine-fructose agar and broth was compared with alcohol shock-chopped meat broth inoculation for optimal detection of Clostridium difficile in fecal samples.
(16) Quinine applied on the intracellular side of the membrane in micromolar concentrations chopped the unitary K+ currents into bursts of brief openings.
(17) That's just dandy when you're gazing at a lamb chop with mint sauce, but the downside to this technology is that each time you glance at the image of Jamie on the front cover you'll absorb some of him, too.
(18) The authors devised a Markov-process model to compare the efficacy of a first-generation combination chemotherapy regimen (CHOP) with that of a third-generation regimen (MACOP-B) using currently available data.
(19) Complete response rates were similar: 66% for MATCOP patients and 61% for CHOP patients.
(20) External Cd or Mg ions chopped long-lasting unitary Ba currents promoted by the Ca agonist Bay K 8644 into bursts of brief openings.
Choppy
Definition:
(a.) Full of cracks.
(a.) Rough, with short, tumultuous waves; as, a choppy sea.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Of course this recovery which is starting is likely to be choppy and uneven.
(2) It all amounts to increasing uncertainty at Leeds, the latest squall on their voyage through choppy waters.
(3) He directed the paper through choppy waters in its relationship with the Bush administration, earning the then president's wrath with a steady stream of scoops on the US government's use of phone tapping and torture.
(4) "This report shows that the recovery will be choppy for economies around the world but confirms, like other independent forecasters including the IMF and Office for Budget Responsibility , that the UK will continue to grow steadily in the years ahead," he added.
(5) "Look, there will be choppy waters and there will be Liberal Democrats who are nervous about the figures coming out," a source close to Nick Clegg told the Observer .
(6) Poland was never expected to unseat Tusk, but the row threatens to fracture the unity European leaders are seeking in time for the EU’s 60th birthday celebrations at the end of the month and before entering the choppy waters of Brexit talks.
(7) And, as we make our way along this choppy recovery, how can we better shield bill payers from price shocks in oil and gas?
(8) To produce this fine mist of sea spray artificially, Salter envisages thousands of unmanned yachts zigzagging across the sea, carrying equipment to make very choppy waves, known as Faraday waves.
(9) But yes, it will be a choppy period that we'll go through."
(10) But if you are in choppy waters you don't change the captain."
(11) ‘owl-light’ (Lancashire) fizmer the whispering sound of wind in reeds or grass (Fenland) grimlins the night hours around midsummer when dusk blends into dawn (Orkney) The word-hoard: Robert Macfarlane on rewilding our language of landscape Read more gruffy ground the surface landscape left behind by lead-mining (Somerset) grumma a mirage caused by mist or haze (Shetland) hob-gob a dangerously choppy sea (Suffolk) muxy of land; sticky, miry, muddy (Exmoor) outshifts the fringes and boundaries of a town (Cambridgeshire) roarie-bummlers fast-moving storm clouds (Scots) snow-bones long thin patches of snow still lying after a thaw, often in dips or stream-cuts (Yorkshire) turn-whol a deep and seething pool where two quick streams meet (Cumbria) zwer the whirring sound made by a covey of partridge taking flight (Exmoor)
(12) We are headed into very, very choppy waters.” Russia and Trump: the chronicle of a scandal Read more “The pressure brought to bear on Comey could well amount to obstruction of justice depending on the intent and motive,” said Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut.
(13) The choppy waters crash into the concrete wall creating a dramatic backdrop.
(14) While a double-dip recession remains unlikely, the survey suggests that the risk has increased and that growth looks set to be slow and choppy going forward."
(15) It was clear from the beginning, however, that writing was one of the few constants in her choppy existence.
(16) On financial markets, investors are gearing up for choppy trading between now and the 23 June vote.
(17) But we’re also very clear that there’s much much more that we want and can do to improve the business yet further.” Supermarkets including Tesco are braced for a choppy year ahead, as the sharp fall in the value of the pound since the Brexit vote pushes up the price of imported foods and ingredients.
(18) Hence the Godard-influenced vignette-style layering of authentic photos that place the film's events firmly into their historical context, a choppy narrative timeline and, rather more surreally, a talking dog.
(19) On currency markets the euro had a choppy day although oil prices rose amid some signs of an improvement in the US economy .
(20) Her wealth and breadth of experience will be critical in steering the CBI through choppy political and economic waters, including an EU referendum.” Fairbairn began her career as an economist at the World Bank and then worked as a journalist at the Economist and as a management consultant at McKinsey & Co. She was also a Downing Street policy adviser from 1995-97 when John Major was prime minister and ITV’s director of strategy between 2007 and 2010.