op

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɒp/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɑp/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɒp

op (plural ops)

1. (informal) Clipping of opponent.

   His ops went to his court hearing today.

2. (informal) Clipping of operation.

   My mother's going in for her knee op today.

3. (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 .

   1. (informal) An amateur radio operator.
   2. (Internet) An operator on IRC, who can moderate the chat channel, ban users, etc.
4. (Internet slang, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of opinion.

   Ops on my new drawing?

5. (chiefly attributive) Ellipsis of op art.

   an op painting; op artworks

op (third-person singular simple present ops, present participle opping, simple past and past participle opped)

1. (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.

• reop

op (plural ops)

1. Alternative letter-case form of OP.

op (comparative more op, superlative most op)

1. Alternative letter-case form of OP.

op (plural ops)

1. (slang, among criminal gangs) Alternative form of opp (“opponent; opposition”).

From op shop.

op (third-person singular simple present ops, present participle opping, simple past and past participle opped)

1. (Australia, informal, transitive) To buy (something) from an op shop.
2. (Australia, informal, intransitive) To shop at op shops.

• Op art on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• photo op

op

1. (Stenoscript) Abbreviation of opportunity, opportune, opportunely, opportunism, opportunist, or etc..

• job op

• op-ed

• P.O., PO, Po, Pô, po, po'

From Dutch op.

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op

1. on
2. up; upward

op

1. on; upon
2. in; at

• of (south-eastern Moselle Franconian)

From Old High German *up, northern variant of ūf.

• IPA^(key): /op/

op (+ dative or accusative)

1. (Ripuarian, north-western Moselle Franconian) on; upon

• drop
• erop
• om (contraction with the masculine and neuter dative of the definite article)

From Old Norse upp. Related to over and åben.

• IPA^(key):

op

1. up (away from earth’s centre)

   Synonym: ned

2. up (to completion)
3. un- (the inverse of a specified action)

• “op” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Middle Dutch op, from Old Dutch up, from Proto-Germanic *upp.

• IPA^(key): /ɔp/
• Rhymes: -ɔp

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op

1. up

   De bal stuiterde op en neer.

   The ball bounced up and down.

2. (postpositional) onto, up onto

   De kat klom gisteren het dak op.

   The cat climbed onto the roof yesterday.

3. Used in separative verbs meaning “to go away” with rude connotations.

• neer
• onder

op

1. on, upon; indicates physical location

   De melk staat op de tafel. ― The milk is on the table.

2. on, in, at; indicates more abstract location

   Ik ben op school. ― I'm at school.

   Ben je ooit op tv geweest? ― Have you ever been on TV?

3. on; referencing a date

   op maandag ― on Monday

4. (... op (de) ...) in; indicates a ratio between two numbers

   Een op de tien mensen is het oneens met de stelling. ― One in ten people disagrees with the statement.

5. (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 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.

• Javindo: op, hop
  • Petjo: op
    • ⇒ Indonesian: op
• Jersey Dutch: op
• Negerhollands: op, hoppo
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: hopo
• → Papiamentu: òp
• → Sranan Tongo: opo
  • → Saramaccan: hópo, ópo

op (used only predicatively, not comparable)

1. up, awake, out of bed

   Jij bent vroeg op vandaag.

   You're up early today.

   Ik moet morgen vroeg op.

   I need to be/get up early tomorrow.

2. up, all gone, no more, finished

   Je tijd is op!

   Your time's up!

   Het brood is op.

   There's no more bread left.

3. (informal) tired, exhausted

• po

From Old Norse op (“opening”).

• IPA^(key):

op n (genitive singular ops, plural op)

1. opening, orifice

• blaðop (stoma)
• sjónop (pupil)

op

1. abbreviation of opintopiste

From Old Norse op (“opening”).

• IPA^(key): /ɔp/,
• Rhymes: -ɔːp

op n (genitive singular ops, nominative plural op)

1. an opening, an orifice, a hole

• munni
• rauf

• hop (Java)

From Javindo op or hop (“stop”), from Dutch ophouden (“uphold; stop”). Doublet of stop.

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: op

op

1. (colloquial) to stop

   Synonyms: stop, setop, berhenti, mandek, cukup

op

1. water

• ok

• transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

Derived from English up.

• IPA^(key): /op/

op

1. up

   git op, wiek op, uopm op, bon op

   get up, wake up, open up, burn up

• big op

• op at majstro.com

From Old High German *up, north-western variant of ūf. Cognate with German auf, Dutch op, English up.

• IPA^(key): /op/

op

1. open

   D'Dier ass op.

   The door is open.

op

1. on, upon

   Ech sëtzen op enger Bänk.

   I'm sitting on a bench.

2. at, to (an institution or workplace)

   Du bass nach op der Schoul.

   You are still at school.

3. (time) past

   e Véierel op néng

   quarter past nine

4. in (a language)

   Wéi seet een dat op Lëtzebuergesch?

   How do you say that in Luxembourgish?

From Old Dutch up, from Proto-Germanic *upp.

op

1. on, on top of
2. at, in the direction of
3. at, by

• up

• Dutch: op
• Limburgish: óp

op

1. up, upwards
2. up, upright
3. open

• up

• Dutch: op
• Limburgish: óp

• “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

op

1. (pre-1938) alternative form of opp

From Proto-Germanic *wōpą, *wōpaz.

op n

1. a scream, a shout, a cry

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.

op n (plural opuri)

1. (archaic) need, necessity

   Synonyms: nevoie, necesitate

Borrowed from Latin opus in the 19th century.

op n (plural opuri)

1. work (usually artistic or literary), writing

   Synonyms: operă, lucrare, scriere

• opus
• operă

Uncertain.

op ?

1. fat, lard, or similar foodstuff

• 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

From English open (see ope).

op

1. 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.”

     →New International Version translation

op

1. open

• opim

From Old Frisian uppa, from Proto-Germanic *upp.

• IPA^(key): /op/

op

1. up
2. onto

• opromje

• “op”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

op

1. on, on top of
2. at, in the vicinity of

   De Westermar sil opnij opboud wurde op deselde lokaasje

   The Westermar will be built again at the same location.

• “op”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

• IPA^(key): /op˧˥/

óp

1. chest

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 41