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# chop

verb (chop, chops, chopped, chopping); noun (a chop, chops)

«chop» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To chop means to cut something into pieces with a knife or an axe. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chop/#m1)
2. To chop down a tree means to cut it so it falls. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chop/#m2)
3. A chop is a thick slice of meat with a bone, such as a pork or lamb chop. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chop/#m3)
4. A chop is a quick hard hit or cut, like a karate chop. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chop/#m4)
5. To chop something up at a mouthful means to swallow it in one big bite. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chop/#m5)

### In the lessons

In the kitchen you chop vegetables with a sharp knife on a chopping board — an adult should help, and fingers stay curled away from the blade. Woodcutters chop wood for a fire. In stories «chop» shows quick, strong cutting. Phrases: «chop up», «chop down», «chop off», «chopping board», «pork chop», «karate chop», «chop and change» (keep changing your mind), «get the chop» (be removed).

### Examples

- Dad chopped the carrots into small pieces. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chop/#x1)
- Please chop the onions for the soup. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chop/#x2)
- They chopped down the dead tree. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chop/#x3)
- We had lamb chops for dinner. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chop/#x4)
- Use a chopping board, not the table. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chop/#x5)
- He broke the board with a karate chop. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chop/#x6)
- Keep your fingers away when you chop. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chop/#x7)
- The logs were chopped for the campfire. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chop/#x8)
- He'll certainly chop us up at a mouthful. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chop/#x9)

### Note

Double p before -ed and -ing: chopped, chopping. «Chop» means cutting into pieces; «slice» means cutting thin flat pieces. Safety: chopping uses sharp tools; children chop only with an adult. «Chopsticks» are eating sticks, not for chopping.

## In Jewish tradition

To cut into small pieces, here meaning to cut up as meat for a pot.

**Interpretation.** Micah uses this savage picture against corrupt leaders who exploit the poor. Tradition reads it as a warning that those who oppress people harm God's own image.

### Examples

- Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones; yea, they chop them in pieces, as that which is in the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. (Prophets MIC.3.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chop/#x1)

### Note

Double p before -ed and -ing: chopped, chopping. «Chop» means cutting into pieces; «slice» means cutting thin flat pieces. Safety: chopping uses sharp tools; children chop only with an adult. «Chopsticks» are eating sticks, not for chopping.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «chop» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chop/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«chop» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/chop.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «chop» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chop/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«chop» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/chop.html) on Mova free.