Definition: lop

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

lop
     v 1: cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"
          [syn: sever]
     2: cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of "dress the
        plants in the garden" [syn: snip, clip, crop, trim,
         dress, prune, cut back]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Lop \Lop\, v. i.
   To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
Lop \Lop\, v. t.
   To let hang down; as, to lop the head.
Lop \Lop\, a.
   Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound
   adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.
Lop \Lop\, n. [AS. loppe.]
   A flea.[Obs.] --Cleveland.
Lop \Lop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lopped; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Lopping.] [Prov. G. luppen, lubben,to cut, geld, or OD.
   luppen, D. lubben.]
   1. To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to sho?
      -- by cutting off the extremities; to cut off, or remove
      as superfluous parts; as, to lop a tree or its branches.
      ``With branches lopped, in wood or mountain felled.''
      --Milton.

            Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts.
                                                  --Pope.

   2. To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a
      hedge.
Lop \Lop\, n.
   That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree.
   --Shak. Mortimer.

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (2003-OCT-10) 

LOP

   A language based on first-order logic.

   ["SETHEO - A High-Perormance Theorem Prover for First-Order
   Logic", Reinhold Letz et al, J Automated Reasoning
   8(2):183-212 (1992)].

Source: V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms December 2001 

LOP
        Loss of Pointer (UNI)