Op in Scrabble Dictionary

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2 letters words from 'op'

OP 4

PO 4

Definitions and meaning of op

op

Etymology 1

Noun

op (plural ops)

1. (informal) An operation.

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

2. (informal) An amateur radio operator.
3. (Internet) An operator on IRC, who can moderate the chat channel, ban users, etc.
4. (chiefly attributive) Op art; a style of abstract art.

   an op painting; op artworks

Derived terms

• black op
• exaop
• gigaop
• grow op
• half-op
• opcode
• petaop
• teraop

Verb

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 (on newsgroup alt.irc)

     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

• reop

Etymology 2

Noun

op

1. (Internet slang) Alternative letter-case form of OP (“original post, original poster”)

See also

• Op art on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• photo op

Anagrams

• P.O., PO, Po, Pô, po, po'

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch op.

Adverb

op

1. on
2. up; upward

Preposition

op

1. on; upon
2. in; at

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Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• of (south-eastern Moselle Franconian)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /op/

Preposition

op (+ dative or accusative)

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

Derived terms

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

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Danish

Preposition

op

1. up

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔp/
• Rhymes: -ɔp

Adverb

op

1. up

2. (postpositional) onto, up onto

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

Antonyms

• neer
• onder

Derived terms

Preposition

op

1. on, upon

2. (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.

Inflection

Derived terms

• Bergen op Zoom

Descendants

• Negerhollands: op, hoppo
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: hopo
• Petjo: op

Adjective

op (used only predicatively, not comparable)

1. up, awake, out of bed

2. up, all gone, no more, finished

Anagrams

• po

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Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse op (“opening”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [oːʰp]

Noun

op n (genitive singular ops, plural op)

1. opening, orifice

Declension

Derived terms

• blaðop (stoma)
• sjónop (pupil)

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse op (“opening”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔp/, [ɔːp]
• Rhymes: -ɔːp

Noun

op n (genitive singular ops, nominative plural op)

1. an opening, an orifice, a hole

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)

Related terms

• munni
• rauf

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Iwam

Noun

op

1. water

Synonyms

• ok

References

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

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Luxembourgish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /op/

Adverb

op

1. open

   D'Dier ass op.

   The door is open.

Preposition

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?

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

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

Preposition

op [+accusative or dative]

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

Alternative forms

• up

Descendants

• Dutch: op
• Limburgish: óp

Adverb

op

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

Alternative forms

• up

Descendants

• Dutch: op
• Limburgish: óp

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

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Adverb

op

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1938; superseded by opp

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Romanian

Etymology 1

From Latin opus. Compare Italian uopo, Old Spanish uebos, Catalan ops.

Noun

op n (plural opuri)

1. (archaic) need, necessity

Synonyms

• nevoie, necesitate

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin opus in the 19th century.

Noun

op n (plural opuri)

1. work (usually artistic or literary), writing

Declension

Synonyms

• operă, lucrare, scriere

See also

• opus

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English open (see ope)

Verb

op

1. open

Adjective

op

1. open

Related terms

• opim

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West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian uppa, from Proto-Germanic *upp

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /op/

Adverb

op

1. up
2. onto

Derived terms

• opromje

Further reading

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

Preposition

op

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

Further reading

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

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Zou

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /op˧˥/

Noun

óp

1. chest

References

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

Source: wiktionary.org

• (short for) an operation.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)