Food / B1

CHOP/tʃɒp/

Chop food when you cut it into pieces with a knife: chop onions; chop wood; finely chopped. Slice is usually thinner and more even; dice is small cubes. Chop as a noun can be a thick slice of meat (a lamb chop). Chop down a tree. Do not use chop for cutting paper — that is cut or trim. Chopped is the common adjective on recipes.

Meaning

To cut something into pieces with a knife or similar tool.

Examples

• “Chop the onions and add them to the pan.”
• “Finely chopped herbs go in at the end of cooking.”
• “They chopped wood for the stove before the storm arrived.”

Good to know

chop onions / herbs / wood. Recipe: finely chopped. Thinner: slice. Cubes: dice. Meat noun: a lamb chop.

Near in meaning

slice

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