Chop
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Chop, CHOP, Chops, or CHOPS may refer to:
Music
- EmbouchureEmbouchureThe embouchure is the use of facial muscles and the shaping of the lips to the mouthpiece of woodwind instruments or the mouthpiece of the brass instruments.The word is of French origin and is related to the root bouche , 'mouth'....
, in music, a synonym for chops - CHOPSCHOPSChops is the stage name of Scott Jung, an Asian American hip hop producer, rapper and former member of the Asian American Hip-Hop group the Mountain Brothers. Jung grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and has Chinese ancestry...
, Asian-American hip-hop producer, rapper and member of rap group Mountain BrothersMountain BrothersMountain Brothers was an American hip hop group originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Named after the legend of 108 mountain bandits depicted in the Chinese novel Water Margin, the group formed in 1994 after all attended the Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania.The... - Chops (Euros Childs album), 2006
- Chops (Joe Pass album)Chops (Joe Pass album)Chops is an album by American jazz guitarist Joe Pass and bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, released in 1978 . It was re-issued in 1993 on CD by Original Jazz Classics.-Track listing:...
, 1978
Medicine
- Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaChildren's Hospital of PhiladelphiaThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is one of the largest and oldest children's hospitals in the world. CHOP has been ranked as the best children's hospital in the United States by U.S. News & World Report and Parents Magazine in recent years. As of 2008, it was ranked #1 in the nation for...
, one of the largest and oldest children's hospitals in the world - CHOPCHOPCHOP is the acronym for a chemotherapy regimen used in the treatment of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. CHOP consists of:* Cyclophosphamide, an alkylating agent which damages DNA by binding to it and causing cross-links...
, a chemotherapy treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma - CCAAT/Enhancer-Binding Protein Homologous Protein (CHOP)CEBPECCAAT/enhancer binding protein , epsilon, also known as CEBPE and CHOP, is a type of ccaat-enhancer-binding protein. CEBPE is its human gene. It is pro-apoptotic....
, an activating protein of apoptosis - DNA damage-inducible transcript 3DNA damage-inducible transcript 3DNA damage-inducible transcript 3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the DDIT3 gene.-Interactions:DNA damage-inducible transcript 3 has been shown to interact with Casein kinase 2, alpha 1, JunD, RPS3A, ATF3, CEBPB, C-jun and C-Fos....
, another gene also known as "CHOP", for "C/EBP-homologous protein"
Sports
- Knifehand strike, also known as the karate chop, a fast and focused strike with the side of the hand
- Professional wrestling attacks, offensive moves in professional wrestling, used to set up an opponent for a submission hold or for a throw
- Chops (juggling)Chops (juggling)Chops is a 3-ball juggling pattern based on the cascade but involving a semicircular carry performed with either one or both hands...
, a juggling pattern using three balls or clubs - Chopping the blindsChopping the blindsIn poker games with blinds, chopping the blinds is a custom that occurs when all other players fold to the blinds before the flop. The blinds then remove their bets, ending the hand....
, in poker, when all players fold to the blinds, who then remove their bets - Michael ChopraMichael ChopraRocky Michael Chopra is an English footballer who plays for Football League Championship side Ipswich Town. He is of mixed Indian and British descent....
(born 1983), football striker from Cardiff City's team - Chan-Ho ParkChan-ho ParkChan Ho Park is a South Korean professional baseball pitcher for the Hanwha Eagles of Korea Baseball Organization. He previously played for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Texas Rangers, San Diego Padres, New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees, and Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League...
(born 1973), pitcher for the New York Yankees - BackspinBackspinIn racquet sports, backspin , is a shot such that the ball rotates backwards after it is hit. The trajectory of the shot involves an upward force that lifts the ball...
, a shot such that the ball rotates backwards (as though rolling back towards the player) after it is hit
Other
- Chop, UkraineChop, UkraineChop is a city located in the Zakarpattia Oblast of western Ukraine, near the borders of Slovakia and Hungary. It is separated from the Hungarian town of Záhony by the river Tisza, and the city itself is designated as a separate raion within the oblast.-Demography:According to the Ukrainian...
- Meat chopMeat chopA meat chop is a cut of meat cut perpendicularly to the spine, and usually containing a rib or riblet part of a vertebra and served as an individual portion. The most common kinds of meat chops are pork and lamb. A thin boneless chop, or one with only the rib bone, may be called a cutlet, though...
, a cut of meat usually containing a rib and served as an individual portion - Chop (furniture)Chop (furniture)A chop is a signature or identifying mark made by a furniture or cabinet maker to identify his work. In the 18th and 19th centuries, cabinet makers furniture makers were allowed to use their own individual chop to identify their work only when they had qualified as a Master Cabinetmaker...
, an identifying mark on cabinets and furniture - Chop (fiberglass)Chop (fiberglass)A chop is a form of fiberglass consisting of short 6-8 inch lengths of glass that is shot out of a pneumatic gun with resin in to a mold. This method is used often when one side of the finished product is not seen, or when large quantities of a product must be made cheaply and quickly without...
, a form of fiberglass - Cold heavy oil production with sandCold heavy oil production with sandCold heavy oil production with sand is a technique for extracting difficult heavy crude oil where sand is used as a means enhancing the productivity of the oil well. CHOPS is now used as a "quasi primary" production approach in unconsolidated sandstones. Thousands of wells in Canada are now...
, a technique for extracting difficult heavy crude oil where sand is used as a means enhancing the productivity of the oil well - Seal (East Asia), or "chop" colloquially, used in China, Japan and other parts of East Asia to prove identity (typically on documents or art in East Asia)
- Mutton chops, a colloquial term for sideburns
- CHOP or Crew Hands-Off Point, point, where space vehicles automatically docking, without interruption from the crew
- CHOP - Change of Operational Control - the procedure of transitioning a US naval ship from one force commander to another