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chap¹ Definition

chap (c̸häp, c̸hap)

noun

chop

Etymology: prob. < ME cheppe < ?

chap² Definition

chap (c̸hap)

noun

Informal a man or boy; fellow

Etymology: < chapman

chap³ Definition

chap (c̸hap)

transitive verb, intransitive verb chapped or chapt, chap·ping

to crack open; split; roughen, as the skin from exposure to cold

Etymology: ME chappen, var. of choppen: see chop

noun

a chapped place in the skin

chap4 Definition

chap

  1. chaplain
  2. chapter

chap Synonyms

chap

v.

chafe, crack open, roughen; see rub 1.

CHAP (Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol) Telecom Definition
An authentication scheme used in Pointto-Point Protocol (PPP) remote access servers (RASs) to validate the identity of a remote user. CHAP employs a challenge-response mechanism that challenges the remote user with a random number.The user responds with a digest, which is an encrypted password based on the random number challenge.The RAS then decrypts the password using that same random number key to verify the identity of the remote user. This approach is much more secure that the predecessor Password Authentication Protocol (PAP). See also authentication, encryption, PAP, password, PPP, and RAS.
chap Usage Examples

Object

  • lip: Diabetic with chapped lips Geographic tongue - what is it?
  • skin: Also for relief from itching, dry and chapped skin, nettle rash, insect bites and stings.

Converse of object

  • remember: I can remember a chap, I think they used to call Monty.
  • call: Met a chap called Al, who claimed to be in a band.
  • meet: Met a chap called Al, who claimed to be in a band.
  • seem: From inside his head, he seems a pleasant enough chap.
  • ask: She asks the chap from the Halifax for advice.
  • dress: There was a chinese chap dressed in a blood stained chefs outfit chasing a bloke who had run off with the till!

Adjective modifier

  • likeable: He is a most likeable chap, yet displays cutting and sometimes acidic wit.
  • handsome: He is a handsome chap, waiting for his luck to change.
  • jolly: At Lewknor, a jolly chap got on and smirked at the driver; " Your coach is covered in twelve's!
  • cheeky: Halfway through some cheeky chap mentioned how he wanted to strip off!
  • esp.: Leoni, Freedom and The Law, esp. chap.
  • nice: Homer, nice chap, could expect no less.

Modifying Another Word

  • dear: You must keep me informed, my dear chap.

Noun used with modifier

  • wee: Well what can I say about this poor wee chap.
  • Thank: Thanks chaps I'll treasure that memory for ever.
  • leather: Wear a hard hat and leather chaps if you think the horse may cause trouble.
  • thank: You may notice that Ben Rock and Jon Vamp have already done this ( many thanks chaps ).

Preposition: with

  • beard: I knew I'd got the right place - just behind the glass door stood a chap with an unfeasibly bushy white beard.
chap Quotes

Roderick Spode? Big chap with a small moustache and the sort of eye that can open an oyster at sixty paces?

—Plum

If a chap seems bent on cheatin' himself, I like to be neighbourly and help him to do it.

—Hales, Stephen

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.

—Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn

Thepublic has always expectedmetobea playboyanda decent chap never lets his public down.

—Fo, Dario

My dear chap! Good isn't the word!

—Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)

The Right Honwas atubby little chapwho looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'When!'

—Plum

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