Lop vs Sprint - What's the difference?
lop | sprint |
(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.
That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
(US, slang) A disabled person, a cripple.
* 1935 : Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men , p5
Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.
wolf
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A short race at top speed
A burst of speed or activity
In (Agile software development), a period of development of a fixed time that is preceded and followed by meetings.
(ambitransitive) To run, cycle, etc. at top speed for a short period
As a verb lop
is .As a noun sprint is
.lop
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .References
* * * * * * * *Etymology 2
From (etyl) loppe.Verb
(lopp)- to lop the head
Synonyms
* (to cut off)Derived terms
* lopper, loppersSee also
* defalcateNoun
(en noun)- (Shakespeare)
- (Mortimer)
References
*Etymology 3
from lopsided.Noun
(en noun)- "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."
