Word Type
Chop can be a verb or a noun.
chop used as a verb:
- To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
"chop wood" - To sever with an axe or similar implement.
"Chop off his head." - To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
- To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
chop used as a noun:
- A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
"I only like lamb chops with mint jelly." - A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar utensil.
"It should take just one good chop to fell the sapling." - A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
"karate chop" - Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
- The result of a tied poker hand
- Termination, especially from employment.
- An official stamp or seal.
- Mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is chop?
- Verb usage: chop wood
- Verb usage: chop an onion
- Verb usage: Chop off his head.
- Noun usage: I only like lamb chops with mint jelly.
- Noun usage: It should take just one good chop to fell the sapling.
- Noun usage: karate chop
- Noun usage: judo chop
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of chop are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of chop, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
