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Laccolith vs Lop - What's the difference?

laccolith | lop |

As a noun laccolith

is (geology) a mass of igneous or volcanic rock found within strata which forces the overlaying strata upwards and forms domes.

As a verb lop is

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laccolith

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (geology) a mass of igneous or volcanic rock found within strata which forces the overlaying strata upwards and forms domes.
  • mass similar to lopolith but concave up.

    • See also

    * dike * lopolith * batholith * (Pluton)

    lop

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Geordie) A flea.
    • (Cleveland)
    Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops

    References

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    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) loppe.

    Verb

    (lopp)
  • (usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
  • To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
  • To allow to hang down.
    • to lop the head
    Synonyms
    * (to cut off)
    Derived terms
    * lopper, loppers

    See also

    * defalcate

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
    • (Shakespeare)
    (Mortimer)

    References

    *

    Etymology 3

    from lopsided.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, slang) A disabled person, a cripple.
  • * 1935 : Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men , p5
    • "He's a lop ; it mentions here about his getting up to the stand with his crippled leg but it doesn't say which one."
  • Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.

    • See also

    * lob

    Anagrams

    * (l) * (l), (l) ---- ==Franco-Provençal==

    Noun

  • wolf
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