(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge.
(n.) That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree.
(v. i.) To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
(v. t.) To let hang down; as, to lop the head.
(a.) Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.
Example Sentences:
(1) The PBR took "no tough decisions", jibed the Conservatives, but it lopped £7bn off public spending and jacked up national insurance contributions by £3bn – fairly tough in anyone's book.
(2) LOP, unlike IMP, showed relatively weak effects on general behavior in mice, spontaneous EEG in cats and spontaneous motor activity in mice.
(3) Public companies have to be accountable, and that accountability often means lopping off freewheeling, creative endeavoirs that you hope will make money and concentrating on making cash with what you have.
(4) Various techniques of correction of lop ear have been described.
(5) Jonathan Ross has, for years, been a target for those who yearn to lop tall poppies.
(6) Remember those embarrassing bills for wisteria clearance at the young Conservative leader’s home amid the expenses debacle of 2009, and how these were lopped away by a merciless assault on the more shameless claims of various knights of the shire?
(7) The authors believe that the proportion of remissions may be increased combining Lycurim with vincristine, procarbazine and glycocorticosteroids (LOP or LOPP).
(8) President Lagos wants to lop $125m out of its budget and the generals are keen to ensure that they retain control of the copper export revenues that have guaranteed its material privileges for so long.
(9) Rogozin's attempt to bolt the present on to a lop-sided analogy with the past was not an honest attempt at historically grounded prognosis, but a warning to the west to stay out of the conflict.
(10) The Treasury was originally looking to lop an extra £10bn off spending, a demand for further cuts that has since risen to around £14bn.
(11) Nevertheless, over two hours and 47 minutes of rolling drama, the 20-year-old gave all he had in what was a curiously lop-sided five-setter, before the experienced Belgian, ranked 16 in the world, wore him down to win 3-6, 1-6, 6-2, 6-1, 6-0 in front of a fevered audience of 13,000.
(12) The authors report their experience in the surgical treatment of 78 patients with lop, prominent, or protruding ears.
(13) The equal-CA group was the only group advantaged by both the levels of processing (LOP) and the distinctiveness of encoding (DOE) manipulations.
(14) A clearer solution to our lop-sided post-devolution constitution can begin to heal this breach.
(15) Once surgically implanted into the ear of a Laboratory Lop rabbit, a thin tissue bed which grows between the layers of the chamber can be viewed through the microscope.
(16) It is applicable to protruding ears and some "lop" ears; scapha and concha can be corrected to individually varying degrees.
(17) MIP of apparent molecular mass 26 kDa was detected in extracts of adult DBA, LOP and CBA-LOP lenses, but only low molecular mass (less than 26 kDa) immunoreactive proteins were detected in similar extracts from adult CAT and NCT lenses.
(18) 'Lop-sided' cells formed approximately 18% of the total of Meynert cells studied and the 'perpendicular' 32%.
(19) He display- ed no signs of personal avarice; he cut his presidential salary when he came to power, and lopped off a further third of it as a regular donation to a children's fund.
(20) Reflecting on a lop-sided literary career, she adds, "You get this…" She searches unsuccessfully for the word and then says, "Something surges out of you at a certain age and you're full of it all.
Loy
Definition:
(n.) A long, narrow spade for stony lands.
Example Sentences:
(1) Read more Reputex says the detailed rules confirm none of Australia’s top 20 emitting facilities – including brown coal-fired power stations Loy Yang A and B and Hazelwood, and new liquefied natural gas processing facilities such as Wheatstone, Gorgon, Itchys and Pluto – will be forced to reduce emissions.
(2) Luke Alexander Loy was not one of George Osborne’s “hard-working people”.
(3) This would include $1.9bn for EnergyAustralia, which runs the Yallourn brown coal power stations in Victoria, $1.5 billion for Origin, owner of the huge Eraring black coal power station in NSW and $1 billion for AGL, which owns the brown coal Loy Yang A station in Victoria.
(4) AGL, which owns Loy Yang, Bayswater and Liddell power stations and is Australia’s single largest greenhouse gas emitter, has also called on the government to regulate that brown-coal-fired power stations close when they reach their scheduled shelf life, about 50 years.
(5) A bridge between the older painters of the GDR and the young artists of a unified Germany, he keeps the hours of a factory worker: nine to six every day, with a midday break to prepare lunch for his wife, the painter Rosa Loy.
(6) Reputex says the detailed rules, signed off by cabinet on Tuesday, confirm that none of Australia’s top 20 emitting facilities – including brown coal-fired power stations Loy Yang A and B and Hazelwood, and new LNG processing facilities such as Wheatstone, Gorgon, Itchys and Pluto – will be forced to reduce emissions.
(7) Here's Eintracht keeper Egon Loy in action that night ... Ball (l), the spectacular Egon Loy (r) 7.16pm BST Diego Costa, Pepe, Sergio Ramos ... anyway, for the record, there have only ever been two sendings off in European Cup or Champions League finals.
(8) Environment Victoria, the premier environment group in the state, has released a report called Preventing the Preventable on Thursday on the costs of cleaning up three coalmines in the Latrobe valley east of Melbourne: Hazelwood, Yallourn and Loy Yang.
(9) Kreis has repeatedly insisted a decision has not been made, and his club owner Dell Loy Hansen is still publicly holding out hope that a revised, lucrative offer can keep the coach, but there was a valedictory feel to Kreis's comments at the Thursday evening press conference, when he acknowledged that ever since the final game of the season against Chivas, he's had to deal with the sensation of knowing that each game "might be the last match that I get to coach with this group," even as he insisted that "the decision has yet to be made."
(10) Atfa Azimi, 16, solves a maths problem in the bombed-out carcass of Loy Ghar school.
(11) Loy Yang is one of AGL’s largest brown-coal stations and produces about one-third of Victoria’s energy.
(12) Luke Loy had a life, until his benefits started falling away | Frances Ryan Read more “It was very daunting, like being in court,” he says.
(13) RSL owner Dell Loy Hansen said: "I'd like to thank Jason for a remarkably successful run during his nine years with Real Salt Lake as both a player and as a head coach.
(14) Hazelwood, owned by GDF Suez, emits 15.5m tonnes of greenhouse gases a year, followed in the rankings by Yallourn and Loy Yang B.
(15) He replaced Michael Fraser, an enthusiastic supporter of fossil fuels who acquired coal assets such as Loy Yang power station in Victoria .
(16) Additional members of the US team included Terry Tamminen; Jim Green, adviser to Joe Biden, now the vice-president who then headed the Senate foreign relations committee; Mark Helmke, adviser to Richard Lugar, the ranking Republican on the committee; and Frank Loy, a former state department negotiator on climate.
(17) Both Green and Loy have been nominated to jobs in the Obama administration .
(18) [Nelson AG, Arnall DA, Loy SF, et al: Consequences of combining strength and endurance training regimens.
(19) The bonds of the resin to two of the tested alloys, Bondi-loy and Vitallium, showed tensile strengths of approximately 18 MPa.