(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.
Oop
Definition:
(v. t.) To bind with a thread or cord; to join; to unite.
Example Sentences:
(1) And Chalmers alley-oop pass to LeBron who dunks it, the Heat are still here.
(2) So far the Republican primary has spoiled us, from Rick Perry's "oops" to corporate asset-stripper Mitt Romney's admission that he liked firing people, delivered just before he was snapped apparently receiving a sit-down shoe-shine from an underling – not a good look for a would-be man of the people.
(3) We propose that the 3' end of cII mRNA and OOP RNA form a double-stranded complex that is a substrate for the host enzyme RNase III, resulting in degradation of cII mRNA.
(4) Mean serum P levels were significantly lower in women with OOP biopsies undertaken more than 4 days before the onset of menses.
(5) Of 98 biopsies which could be accurately dated, 56 were in-phase (IP) and 42 were out-of-phase (OOP).
(6) The synthesis or stability of oop RNA is much reduced from induced tof-, compared with tof+ prophage.
(7) An alternate OOP RNA-dependent hydrolytic process occurs in RNase III- cells that results in cleavages in one of two regions, one close to the cleavage site observed in RNase III+ cells, and the second several nucleotides beyond the end of the complementary region between OOP RNA and cII-O mRNA.
(8) Oops, I forgot ...) 8.46am BST In October 1946, the same month in which she became president of OUCA, Margaret went for the first time as a representative to the party conference in Blackpool ...She was 'entranced', she wrote.
(9) For validity studies, children and their mothers completed the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control (HLOC) Scale and the Orthodontic Opinion Poll (OOP) Subscales.
(10) We have made a derivative of bacteriophage lambda that makes no OOP antisense RNA.
(11) Unless you decide to get pregnant and move oop north, where even these so-called jobs are pretty much nonexistent.
(12) We have thus shown that the overexpression of oop RNA favors the lytic mode of lambda development.
(13) Come on, you remember Iraq: that little foreign policy blip millions of us protested against to absolutely zero avail, because Straw and his pals figured they knew best, even though it turned out they didn't and - oops!
(14) Brazilian Marcelo Huertas fed Larry Nance Jr for an alley-oop dunk in the fourth that had the fans cheering, seemingly exorcising the demons of another losing season for the once-proud franchise with the league’s third-worst record.
(15) Lambda cII expression from an induced prophage is increased twofold in the presence of a large excess of anti-OOP RNA.
(16) Inhibition by the OOP DNA plasmid is not observed in an Escherichia coli strain deficient in RNase III.
(17) Wow – Kate Bush (or, if you prefer, Kylie Minogue) Wow, oops and the like are interjections.
(18) But not until I have availed myself of the spider-wrangler’s traditional right of playfully saying “oops”, touching your neck with a fingertip and pretending to drop it down your shirt.
(19) Regions that have long been suspected to participate in lambda DNA replication initiation, ice and oop were not required for the O, P-dependent lambda-specific replication initiation.
(20) This experiment, in which the prophage is the sole source of OOP RNA, suggests a physiological role for OOP RNA in regulating cII-gene expression.