Lip vs. Lop — What's the Difference?

Lips are a visible body part at the mouth of many animals, including humans. Lips are soft, movable, and serve as the opening for food intake and in the articulation of sound and speech.

To cut off (a part), especially from a tree or shrub

Either of two fleshy structures that surround the opening of the mouth in humans and other mammals.

To cut off a part or parts from; trim

In humans, the smooth brownish to reddish border of the lip.

To eliminate or excise as superfluous

(Anatomy) A labium.

To hang or let hang loosely; droop.

The margin of flesh around a wound.

To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.

Either of the margins of the aperture of a gastropod shell.

To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.

A rim, as of a vessel, bell, or crater.

To allow to hang down.

(Botany) One of the two divisions of a bilabiate corolla or calyx, as in the snapdragon, or the modified median petal of an orchid flower.

That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.

The tip of a pouring spout, as on a pitcher.

(Geordie) A flea.

(Slang) Insolent talk.

A disabled person, a cripple.

To touch the lips to.

Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.

To kiss.

A flea.

To utter.

That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree.

To lap or splash against.

To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to shorten by cutting off the extremities; to cut off, or remove, as superfluous parts; as, to lop a tree or its branches.

(Sports) To hit a golf ball so that it touches the edge of (the hole) without dropping in.

To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge.

(countable) Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.

To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.

(countable) A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.

To let hang down; as, to lop the head.

The projecting rim of an open container; a short open spout.

Hanging down; as, lop ears; - used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.

Backtalk; verbal impertinence.

Cut off from a whole;

The edge of a high spot of land.

Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of;

The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.

(botany) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.

(botany) The distinctive petal of the Orchis family.

(zoology) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.

Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.

(transitive) To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).

(of something inanimate) To touch lightly.

To wash against a surface, lap.

(intransitive) To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.

(transitive) To form the rim, edge or margin of something.

(transitive) To utter verbally.

(transitive) To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.

(sports) To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.

To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.

One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself.

An edge of an opening; a thin projecting part of anything; a kind of short open spout; as, the lip of a vessel.

The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.

One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.

One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.

Impudent or abusive talk; as, don't give me any of your lip.

To touch with the lips; to put the lips to; hence, to kiss.

To utter; to speak.

To clip; to trim.

Fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth

An impudent or insolent rejoinder;

The top edge of a vessel