op
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɒp/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒp
Noun
op (plural ops)
- (informal) Clipping of operation.
- My mother's going in for her knee op today.
- (informal) Clipping of operator.
- 2015 September 14, Doug Matthews, Special Event Production: The Resources, Routledge, →ISBN, page 159:
- Even given the same direction, two camera ops will see and shoot somewhat differently. A good eye and an ability to concentrate and quickly follow directions are necessary for this position.
- 2017 November 21, Kristina Sexton, Acting in LA: How to Become a Working Actor in Hollywood, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
- Give the camera op a wide berth when he or she is shooting on Steadicam. When doing so, camera ops usually have virtually no peripheral vision, and their spatial awareness may be impaired by the giant, heavy camera attached to [them].
- (informal) An amateur radio operator.
- (Internet) An operator on IRC, who can moderate the chat channel, ban users, etc.
- (Internet slang, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of opinion.
- Ops on my new drawing?
- (chiefly attributive) Ellipsis of op art.
- an op painting; op artworks
Verb
op (third-person singular simple present ops, present participle opping, simple past and past participle opped)
- (transitive, Internet) To promote (an IRC user) to an operator.
- Antonym: deop
- 1999, Cory McWilliams, “IRC Oddities”, in alt.irc (Usenet):
- True, better clients will remember that a person had a voice before they were opped and will return the + when they are deopped, but that doesn't solve the problem. Suppose someone joins the room after the user is opped and before the user is deopped.
Derived terms
Noun
op (plural ops)
- (slang, among criminal gangs) Alternative form of opp (“opponent; opposition”).
Etymology 4
From op shop.
Verb
op (third-person singular simple present ops, present participle opping, simple past and past participle opped)
Etymology 5
op
- (stenoscript) Abbreviation of opportunity and related forms of that word (opportune, opportunely, opportunism, opportunist, etc.)
Derived terms
See also
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Central Franconian
Alternative forms
- of (south-eastern Moselle Franconian)
Etymology
From Old High German *up, northern variant of ūf.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /op/
Danish
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch op, from Old Dutch up, from Proto-Germanic *upp.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔp/
- Rhymes: -ɔp
audio (file)
Adverb
op
Derived terms
adverbs
adjectives
nouns
verbs
- op- -en
- opbergen
- opbikken
- opblazen
- opbloeien
- opbonjouren
- opbranden
- opbrengen
- opdelen
- opdoen
- opdokken
- opdringen
- opeten
- opfikken
- opfluffen
- opgaan
- opgeven
- ophalen
- ophoesten
- ophopen
- opjuinen
- opkalken
- opklossen
- opknappen
- opkramen
- opkrassen
- opkrikken
- opladen
- opleggen
- opletten
- oplieren
- oplossen
- opluxen
- opmerken
- oppakken
- oppiepen
- oppijpen
- oppikken
- opplussen
- oppoetsen
- oprichten
- oprijzen
- oproepen
- oprollen
- opruimen
- oprukken
- opschalen
- opsluiten
- opsmikkelen
- opsnijden
- opsnorren
- opstappen
- opstijgen
- optateren
- optellen
- optreden
- opvangen
- opvissen
- opvoeden
- opvolgen
- opvreten
- opvullen
- opwaarderen
- opzetten
Preposition
op
- on, upon
- De melk staat op de tafel.
- The milk is on the table.
- (op ... na, with a cardinal number) bar, except Used to form ordinal numbers in relation to a superlative quality. The number that is used is 1 lower than in the English translation.
- Naast dat de toonladder een kenmerkend gegeven is, zijn er ook bepaalde tonen, die een speciale rol hebben, zoals de vadi en de samvadi, respectievelijk: de belangrijkste en de op een na belangrijkste toon.
- Next to [the fact] that the musical scale is a characteristic datum, there are also certain tones that have a special role, such as the vadi and the samvadi: respectively the most important and second most important tones.
- Brazilië is met zijn 8,5 miljoen vierkante kilometer het grootste land van Zuid-Amerika en het op vier na grootste ter wereld.
- With its 8.5 million square kilometers, Brazil is the largest country in South America and the fifth largest in the world.
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
Adjective
op (used only predicatively, not comparable)
Derived terms
Anagrams
Faroese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [oːʰp]
Declension
Declension of op | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
n3 | singular | plural | ||
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | op | opið | op | opini |
accusative | op | opið | op | opini |
dative | opi | opinum | opum | opunum |
genitive | ops | opsins | opa | opanna |
Derived terms
- blaðop (stoma)
- sjónop (pupil)
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔp/, [ɔːp]
- Rhymes: -ɔːp
Declension
Derived terms
- fínstillt op (a calibrated orifice)
- gosop (a volcanic orifice, an eruption vent)
- inntaksop (an inlet orifice)
- líkamsop (a body orifice)
- markstreymisop (a critical flow orifice)
- rennslisop (in cars; an orifice)
- tvö op (a twin-orifice)
Iwam
Synonyms
References
- transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66
Luxembourgish
Etymology
From Old High German *up, north-western variant of ūf. Cognate with German auf, Dutch op, English up.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /op/
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch up, from Proto-Germanic *upp.
Alternative forms
Alternative forms
Further reading
- “op (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- “op (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “op”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
Norwegian Nynorsk
Old Swedish
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *wōpą, *wōpaz.
Romanian
Etymology 1
Inherited from Latin opus. Compare Italian uopo, Old Spanish uebos, Catalan ops. Doublet of opus, a borrowing, as well as the modern sense of op, below.
Noun
op n (plural opuri)
Declension
Tocharian B
Etymology
Uncertain.
Further reading
- Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “op”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 122
Tok Pisin
Verb
op
- open
- 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 3:5:
- Sapos yutupela i kaikai pikinini bilong dispela diwai, bai ai bilong yutupela i op na yutupela i kisim save long wanem samting i gutpela, na wanem samting i nogut, na bai yutupela i kamap wankain olsem God. God i save long dispela, olsem na em i tambuim yutupela long kaikai pikinini bilong dispela diwai.”
Related terms
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian uppa, from Proto-Germanic *upp.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /op/
Derived terms
Further reading
- “op”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Preposition
op
Further reading
- “op”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Zou
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /op˧˥/
References
- Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 41