Chopped
[tʃɒpt]
Definition
(adj.) prepared by cutting; 'sliced tomatoes'; 'sliced ham'; 'chopped clams'; 'chopped meat'; 'shredded cabbage' .
Edited by Barbie--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Chop
Editor: Wendell
Examples
- These are some of the same lot; they were made as follows: The meat was chopped, put into the preserving fluid for one night, and then mixed with the other material in the ordinary way. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The tube is then removed from the boiling water, and after cooling for a few minutes, it is placed in a vessel containing finely chopped ice (Fig. 10). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- So, with Spartan firmness, the young authoress laid her first-born on her table, and chopped it up as ruthlessly as any ogre. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I had never before heard the English language chopped up in that way. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Aymo had a basin of spaghetti with onions and tinned meat chopped up in it. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The process in brief is to take fresh beef fat, which is first chopped up and thoroughly washed. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- For sawdust a well-packed space of 10 inches between walls and ice will keep the ice well; chopped straw should be 15 or 20 inches thick, and long straw should occupy a space of 2 feet. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Sawdust is the best material for packing, but in its absence chaff, chopped straw, or even straw unchopped may be made to answer the purpose. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Whatever does not fit into his rigid little scheme of things must have its head chopped off. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- His under lip hangs down like a camel's, and his ears are chopped off close to his head. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Now in America that interesting tree would be chopped down or forgotten within the next five years, but it will be treasured here. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- His tail has been chopped off or else he has sat down on it too hard, some time or other, and he has to fight the flies with his heels. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Feed the chicks four or five times a day, at first on hard-boiled eggs, chopped fine, giving them also a little milk, fine screenings, and millet seed. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
Editor: Wendell