Chopping

Definition

chop 1 /tʃɒp/ v ( -pp- ) ၁။ ~ sth (up) (into sth) ခုတ္သည္။ ပိုင္း သည္။ ေပါက္သည္။ စဥ္းသည္။ chopping wood for the fire ❍ a chopping board/block (ie used for chopping food) ❍ finely chopped onions/carrots/parsley ❍ He chopped the logs (up) into firewood (ie into sticks). ❍ Chop the meat into cubes before frying it. ❍ cut ၂။ (ေဘာလံုး၊ ၾကက္ေတာင္ စသည္ကို) စိုက္က်ေအာင္ ခုတ္ခ်သည္။ ၃။ ( Brit infml ) (esp passive) ရပ္ဆိုင္းပစ္သည္။ ေလွ်ာ့ပစ္သည္။ Bus services in this area have been chopped. n ၁။ [C] (က) (ပုဆိန္ျဖင့္)ခုတ္ခ်က္။ She cut down the sapling with one chop. (ခ) လက္ဝါးေစာင္းခုတ္ခ်က္။ a karate chop. ၂။ [C] နံ႐ိုးပါ အသားတစ္တံုး။ lamb pork chops. ၃။ the chop [sing] ( sl esp Brit ) ျဖဳတ္၊ ထုတ္၊ သတ္၊ ရပ္ပစ္ျခင္း။ She got/was given the chop after ten years with the company. ❍ It looks as though he's for the chop (ie He is likely to be dismissed). ❍ The public spending cuts will mean the chop for several hospitals. ဘ႑ာေငြအသံုးစရိတ္ ျဖတ္ေတာက္လိုက္ျခင္းသည္ အခ်ဳိ႕ ေသာေဆး႐ံုမ်ားကို ပိတ္ပစ္လိုက္ရာ ေရာက္သည္။ ❏ chop at sth [ PHRV ] (ဓား၊ ပုဆိန္ စသည္ျဖင့္) ခုတ္သည္၊ ေပါက္သည္။ ❏ chop sth down [ PHRV ] အေျခမွခုတ္လွဲသည္။ chop down a dead tree. ❏ chop sth off (sth) [ PHRV ] ခုတ္ျဖတ္သည္။ He chopped a branch off the tree. ❍ ( infml ) King Charles I had his head chopped off. ❏ chop a/one's way through sth [ PHRV ] ခုတ္ထြင္၍ လမ္းရွင္းသည္။ chop 2 /tʃɒp/ v ( -pp- ) ❏ chop and change [ IDM ] ( Brit ) ခုတစ္မ်ဳိး၊ ခုတစ္မ်ဳိး ခဏခဏ ေျပာင္းသည္။

Examples

1. Finely chop the cabbage and cook it in boiling salted water.
2. Next
3. add the chopped onions.
4. Don’t chop any more wood; we’ve got enough.
5. [chop something into something] : Chop the meat into small cubes.
6. [chop through] : Use a spade to chop through the smaller roots.
7. They had to chop their way through the undergrowth.
8. Our grant from the government has been chopped by 20 per cent this year.