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chop | grave |

As nouns the difference between chop and grave

is that chop is garbage, trash can while grave is cave, den, lair.

chop

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) choppen, variant of (only attested in compounds). More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)
  • A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
  • *1957 , :
  • *:I was standing at the meat counter, waiting for some rib lamb chops to be cut.
  • A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar utensil.
  • (martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
  • Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
  • (poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
  • Termination, especially from employment.
  • (dated) A crack or cleft; a chap.
  • Synonyms
    * axe, pink slip, sack

    Verb

  • To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
  • chop wood
    chop an onion
  • To sever with an axe or similar implement.
  • Chop off his head.
  • (baseball) To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
  • (poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
  • To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
  • * L'Estrange
  • Out of greediness to get both, he chops at the shadow, and loses the substance.
  • To interrupt; with in'' or ''out .
  • * Latimer
  • This fellow interrupted the sermon, even suddenly chopping in.

    Derived terms

    * chop chop * chopper * chopping board * chop logic * chops * chopstick * choppy * karate chop * try out one's own chops

    Etymology 2

    Of uncertain origin, perhaps a variant of (chap).

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To exchange, to barter; to swap.
  • * 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
  • this is not to put down Prelaty, this is but to chop an Episcopacy; this is but to translate the Palace Metropolitan'' from one kind of dominion into another, this is but an old canonicall sleight of ''commuting our penance.
  • * L'Estrange
  • We go on chopping and changing our friends.
  • To chap or crack.
  • (nautical) To vary or shift suddenly.
  • The wind chops about.
  • To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • Let not the counsel at the bar chop with the judge.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mostly, in the plural) A jaw of an animal.
  • A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
  • The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.
  • East Chop'''; West '''Chop
  • A change; a vicissitude.
  • (Marryat)

    Etymology 3

    (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An official stamp or seal.
  • Mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
  • silk of the first chop
    Derived terms
    * chop dollar * chop of tea * grand chop

    Etymology 4

    Shortening.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (internet) An IRC channel operator.
  • * 1996 , Peter Ludlow, High Noon on the Electronic Frontier (page 404)
  • IRC supports mechanisms for the enforcement of acceptable behaviour on IRC. Channel operators โ€” "chanops" or "chops " โ€” have access to the /kick command, which throws a specified user out of the given channel.
    Synonyms
    * chanop * op ----

    grave

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) . Related to (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.
  • * (rfdate), 11:17:
  • He had lain in the grave four days.
  • * 1856 , Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), (Gustave Flaubert) (author), (Madame Bovary) , Part III, Chapter X:
  • They reached the cemetery. The men went right down to a place in the grass where a grave was dug. They ranged themselves all round; and while the priest spoke, the red soil thrown up at the sides kept noiselessly slipping down at the corners.
  • death, destruction.
  • Derived terms
    * begrave * dance on someone's grave * dig one's own grave * early grave * graveclothes * grave marker * grave robber * graverobbing * gravedigger * gravelike * graveside * gravesite * gravestone * graveward * mass grave * turn in one's grave * war grave * white man's grave

    See also

    *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To dig.
  • * (rfdate) (Book of Prayer) , (Psalms) 7:16:
  • He hath graven and digged up a pit.
  • (obsolete) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
  • * (w) 28:9:
  • Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1872 , year_published=2009 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=James De Mille , title=The Cryptogram , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=Deep lines were graven on her pale forehead, and on her wan, thin cheeks. }}
  • * (rfdate) (Robert Louis Stevenson), Requiem :
  • This be the verse you grave for me / "Here he lies where he longs to be"
  • (obsolete) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
  • * (rfdate) (Geoffrey Chaucer):
  • With gold men may the hearte grave .
  • (obsolete) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
  • * (rfdate) (Matthew Prior):
  • O! may they graven in thy heart remain.
  • (obsolete) To entomb; to bury.
  • * (rfdate), (William Shakespeare):
  • Lie full low, graved in the hollow ground.
  • (transitive, obsolete, nautical) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch โ€” so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.
  • (obsolete) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
  • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (obsolete) Influential, important; authoritative.
  • *, II.3.7:
  • An illiterate fool sits in a mans seat; and the common people hold him learned, grave , and wise.
  • Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful, sombre.
  • Low in pitch, tone etc.
  • * (rfdate) (Moore), Encyclopedia of Music :
  • ''The thicker the cord or string, the more grave is the note or tone.
  • Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
  • Synonyms
    * * (unsorted by sense) solemn, sober, serious, sage, staid, demure, thoughtful, sedate, weighty, momentous, important

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. รจ is an e with a grave accent.
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