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Lop vs Mid - What's the difference?

lop | mid |

As nouns the difference between lop and mid

is that lop is a flea while mid is middle.

As a verb lop

is 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.

As a preposition mid is

with.

As an adjective mid is

denoting the middle part.

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

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    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
  • ----

    mid

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • (obsolete) With.
  • Amid.
  • Derived terms
    * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) mid, midde, from (etyl) . See also middle .

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Denoting the middle part.
  • mid ocean
  • Occupying a middle position; middle.
  • mid finger
    mid hour of night
  • (linguistics) Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low; said of certain vowel sounds; as, a (ale), / (/ll), / (/ld).
  • Derived terms
    * mid-autumn * midfall * midseason * midshipman * midsummer * mid-winter

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) mid, midde, from (etyl) . See also median, Latin medianus.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) middle
  • * Shakespeare
  • About the mid of night come to my tent.

    Anagrams

    * * * ----