| chop | | |
| n. (phenomenon) | 1. chop | the irregular motion of waves (usually caused by wind blowing in a direction opposite to the tide).; "the boat headed into the chop" |
| ~ physical phenomenon | a natural phenomenon involving the physical properties of matter and energy. |
| n. (food) | 2. chop | a small cut of meat including part of a rib. |
| ~ cut of meat, cut | a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass. |
| ~ mutton chop | chop cut from a mature sheep. |
| ~ lamb-chop, lamb chop, lambchop | chop cut from a lamb. |
| ~ porkchop | chop cut from a hog. |
| n. (body) | 3. chop | a jaw.; "I'll hit him on the chops" |
| ~ jaw | the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth. |
| n. (act) | 4. chop, chop shot | a tennis return made with a downward motion that puts backspin on the ball. |
| ~ return | a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player.; "he won the point on a cross-court return" |
| n. (act) | 5. chop, chopper | a grounder that bounces high in the air. |
| ~ ground ball, groundball, grounder, hopper | (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground. |
| v. (contact) | 6. chop, chop up | cut into pieces.; "Chop wood"; "chop meat" |
| ~ hash | chop up.; "hash the potatoes" |
| ~ cut | separate with or as if with an instrument.; "Cut the rope" |
| ~ mince | cut into small pieces.; "mince the garlic" |
| v. (motion) | 7. chop | move suddenly. |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| v. (creation) | 8. chop | form or shape by chopping.; "chop a hole in the ground" |
| ~ create, make | make or cause to be or to become.; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor" |
| v. (contact) | 9. chop | strike sharply, as in some sports. |
| ~ strike | deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon.; "The teacher struck the child"; "the opponent refused to strike"; "The boxer struck the attacker dead" |
| v. (contact) | 10. chop, hack | cut with a hacking tool. |
| ~ ax, axe | chop or split with an ax.; "axe wood" |
| ~ cut | separate with or as if with an instrument.; "Cut the rope" |
| v. (competition) | 11. chop | hit sharply. |
| ~ strike, hit | make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target.; "The Germans struck Poland on Sept. 1, 1939"; "We must strike the enemy's oil fields"; "in the fifth inning, the Giants struck, sending three runners home to win the game 5 to 2" |
| hew | | |
| v. (contact) | 1. hew, hew out | make or shape as with an axe.; "hew out a path in the rock" |
| ~ carve | form by carving.; "Carve a flower from the ice" |
| ~ rough-hew, roughcast | hew roughly, without finishing the surface.; "rough-hew stone or timber" |
| v. (contact) | 2. hew | strike with an axe; cut down, strike.; "hew an oak" |
| ~ snag | hew jaggedly. |
| ~ strike | deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon.; "The teacher struck the child"; "the opponent refused to strike"; "The boxer struck the attacker dead" |
| hack | | |
| n. (person) | 1. drudge, hack, hacker | one who works hard at boring tasks. |
| ~ unskilled person | a person who lacks technical training. |
| ~ plodder, slogger | someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours. |
| n. (person) | 2. hack, machine politician, political hack, ward-heeler | a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends. |
| ~ pol, political leader, politico, politician | a person active in party politics. |
| n. (person) | 3. hack, hack writer, literary hack | a mediocre and disdained writer. |
| ~ grub street | the world of literary hacks. |
| ~ author, writer | writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay). |
| n. (artifact) | 4. hack | a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil. |
| ~ tool | an implement used in the practice of a vocation. |
| n. (artifact) | 5. cab, hack, taxi, taxicab | a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money. |
| ~ auto, automobile, car, motorcar, machine | a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine.; "he needs a car to get to work" |
| ~ gypsy cab | a taxicab that cruises for customers although it is licensed only to respond to calls. |
| ~ minicab | a minicar used as a taxicab. |
| ~ fleet | group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership. |
| n. (animal) | 6. hack, jade, nag, plug | an old or over-worked horse. |
| ~ equus caballus, horse | solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times. |
| n. (animal) | 7. hack | a horse kept for hire. |
| ~ equus caballus, horse | solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times. |
| n. (animal) | 8. hack | a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.. |
| ~ mount, riding horse, saddle horse | a lightweight horse kept for riding only. |
| v. (social) | 9. cut, hack | be able to manage or manage successfully.; "I can't hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office" |
| ~ cope, get by, grapple, make do, manage, contend, deal, make out | come to terms with.; "We got by on just a gallon of gas"; "They made do on half a loaf of bread every day" |
| v. (contact) | 10. hack | cut away.; "he hacked his way through the forest" |
| ~ cut | separate with or as if with an instrument.; "Cut the rope" |
| v. (competition) | 11. hack | kick on the arms. |
| ~ basketball, basketball game, hoops | a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop. |
| ~ foul | commit a foul; break the rules. |
| v. (competition) | 12. hack | kick on the shins. |
| ~ rugby, rugby football, rugger | a form of football played with an oval ball. |
| ~ foul | commit a foul; break the rules. |
| v. (change) | 13. hack, hack on | fix a computer program piecemeal until it works.; "I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best" |
| ~ programme, program | write a computer program. |
| v. (change) | 14. cut up, hack | significantly cut up a manuscript. |
| ~ edit, redact | prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting.; "Edit a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages" |
| v. (body) | 15. hack, whoop | cough spasmodically.; "The patient with emphysema is hacking all day" |
| ~ cough | exhale abruptly, as when one has a chest cold or congestion.; "The smoker coughs all day" |
| split | | |
| n. (act) | 1. split | extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back). |
| ~ acrobatic feat, acrobatic stunt | a stunt performed by an acrobat. |
| n. (quantity) | 2. split | a bottle containing half the usual amount. |
| ~ bottleful, bottle | the quantity contained in a bottle. |
| n. (possession) | 3. split | a promised or claimed share of loot or money.; "he demanded his split before they disbanded" |
| ~ share, percentage, portion, part | assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group.; "he wanted his share in cash" |
| n. (object) | 4. split | a lengthwise crack in wood.; "he inserted the wedge into a split in the log" |
| ~ crack, scissure, cleft, crevice, fissure | a long narrow opening. |
| n. (object) | 5. rent, rip, snag, split, tear | an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart.; "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings" |
| ~ opening, gap | an open or empty space in or between things.; "there was a small opening between the trees"; "the explosion made a gap in the wall" |
| n. (location) | 6. split | an old Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea. |
| ~ city, metropolis, urban center | a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts.; "Ancient Troy was a great city" |
| ~ croatia, hrvatska, republic of croatia | a republic in the western Balkans in south-central Europe in the eastern Adriatic coastal area; formerly part of the Habsburg monarchy and Yugoslavia; became independent in 1991. |
| n. (food) | 7. split | a dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts. |
| ~ frozen dessert | any of various desserts prepared by freezing. |
| ~ banana split | a banana split lengthwise and topped with scoops of ice cream and sauces and nuts and whipped cream. |
| n. (artifact) | 8. split | (tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl.; "he was winning until he got a split in the tenth frame" |
| ~ tenpin bowling, tenpins | bowling down an alley at a target of ten wooden pins. |
| ~ formation | a particular spatial arrangement. |
| n. (act) | 9. split, split up, stock split | an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity.; "they announced a two-for-one split of the common stock" |
| ~ step-up, increase | the act of increasing something.; "he gave me an increase in salary" |
| n. (act) | 10. rent, rip, split | the act of rending or ripping or splitting something.; "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip" |
| ~ tear | the act of tearing.; "he took the manuscript in both hands and gave it a mighty tear" |
| n. (act) | 11. schism, split | division of a group into opposing factions.; "another schism like that and they will wind up in bankruptcy" |
| ~ division | the act or process of dividing. |
| v. (social) | 12. carve up, dissever, divide, separate, split, split up | separate into parts or portions.; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I" |
| ~ change integrity | change in physical make-up. |
| ~ subdivide | divide into smaller and smaller pieces.; "This apartment cannot be subdivided any further!" |
| ~ initialise, initialize, format | divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data.; "Please format this disk before entering data!" |
| ~ sectionalise, sectionalize | divide into sections, especially into geographic sections.; "sectionalize a country" |
| ~ triangulate | divide into triangles or give a triangular form to.; "triangulate the piece of cardboard" |
| ~ unitise, unitize | divide (bulk material) and process as units. |
| ~ lot | divide into lots, as of land, for example. |
| ~ parcel | divide into parts.; "The developers parceled the land" |
| ~ sliver, splinter | divide into slivers or splinters. |
| ~ paragraph | divide into paragraphs, as of text.; "This story is well paragraphed" |
| ~ canton | divide into cantons, of a country. |
| ~ balkanise, balkanize | divide a territory into small, hostile states. |
| v. (contact) | 13. cleave, rive, split | separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument.; "cleave the bone" |
| ~ maul | split (wood) with a maul and wedges. |
| ~ laminate | split (wood) into thin sheets. |
| ~ tear | to separate or be separated by force.; "planks were in danger of being torn from the crossbars" |
| ~ cleave | make by cutting into.; "The water is going to cleave a channel into the rock" |
| v. (social) | 14. break, break up, part, separate, split, split up | discontinue an association or relation; go different ways.; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up" |
| ~ give the bounce, give the gate, give the axe | terminate a relationship abruptly.; "Mary gave John the axe after she saw him with another woman" |
| ~ disunify, break apart | break up or separate.; "The country is disunifying"; "Yugoslavia broke apart after 1989" |
| ~ disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, disunite, divorce | part; cease or break association with.; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president" |
| ~ break with | end a relationship.; "China broke with Russia" |
| ~ split up, divorce | get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage.; "The couple divorced after only 6 months" |
| ~ secede, splinter, break away | withdraw from an organization or communion.; "After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away" |
| ~ break away, break | interrupt a continued activity.; "She had broken with the traditional patterns" |
| v. (motion) | 15. part, separate, split | go one's own way; move apart.; "The friends separated after the party" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| ~ dissipate, scatter, disperse, spread out | move away from each other.; "The crowds dispersed"; "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached" |
| ~ break up | come apart.; "the group broke up" |
| ~ diffract | undergo diffraction.; "laser light diffracts electrons" |
| v. (change) | 16. break open, burst, split | come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure.; "The bubble burst" |
| ~ pop | burst open with a sharp, explosive sound.; "The balloon popped"; "This popcorn pops quickly in the microwave oven" |
| ~ blow | burst suddenly.; "The tire blew"; "We blew a tire" |
| ~ stave, stave in | burst or force (a hole) into something. |
| ~ come apart, break, fall apart, split up, separate | become separated into pieces or fragments.; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart" |
| adj. | 17. disconnected, disunited, fragmented, split | having been divided; having the unity destroyed.; "Congress...gave the impression of...a confusing sum of disconnected local forces"; "a league of disunited nations"; "a fragmented coalition"; "a split group" |
| ~ divided | separated into parts or pieces.; "opinions are divided" |
| adj. | 18. split | (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain.; "we bought split logs for the fireplace" |
| ~ cut | separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument.; "the cut surface was mottled"; "cut tobacco"; "blood from his cut forehead"; "bandages on her cut wrists" |
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