op

Noun

op

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

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.
   • 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.

Noun

op (plural ops)

1. (chiefly attributive) Op art; a style of abstract art.

   an op painting; op artworks

2. (informal) Operation.

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

3. (Internet) An operator on IRC.

Anagrams

• P.O., P/O, PO, Po, p.o., po, po'

Etymology

From Dutch op.

Adverb

op

1. on
2. up; upward

Preposition

op

1. on; upon
2. in; at

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

Preposition

op

1. up

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔp/
• Rhymes: -ɔp

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Adverb

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.

Preposition

op

1. on, upon

   De melk staat op de tafel.

   The milk is on the table.

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.

   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.

Adjective

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.

     The bread is all gone.

Anagrams

• po

Etymology

From Old Norse op (“opening”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [oːʰp]

Noun

op n (genitive singular ops, plural op)

1. opening, orifice

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

Noun

op

1. water

References

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

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?

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

Adverb

op

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

Further reading

• “op (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “op (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “op”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Adverb

op

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 form removed with the spelling reform of 1938; superseded by opp

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin opus in the 19th century.

Etymology

From English open (see ope)

Verb

op

1. open
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Genesis 3:5 (translation here):

     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.”

Adjective

op

1. open

Related terms

• opim