Cope
[kəʊp] or [kop]
Definition
(noun.) a long cloak; worn by a priest or bishop on ceremonial occasions.
(verb.) come to terms with; 'We got by on just a gallon of gas'; 'They made do on half a loaf of bread every day'.
Inputed by Cyrus--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A covering for the head.
(n.) Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door.
(n.) An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, where it is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions.
(n.) An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.
(n.) The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam mold.
(v. i.) To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.
(v. t.) To pare the beak or talons of (a hawk).
(v. i.) To exchange or barter.
(v. i.) To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.
(v. i.) To enter into or maintain a hostile contest; to struggle; to combat; especially, to strive or contend on equal terms or with success; to match; to equal; -- usually followed by with.
(v. t.) To bargain for; to buy.
(v. t.) To make return for; to requite; to repay.
(v. t.) To match one's self against; to meet; to encounter.
Editor: Lou
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Contend, vie, struggle, compete, strive
ANT:Negotiate, arbitrate, compromise, surrender
Editor: Ramon
Definition
n. a covering: a cap or hood: anything spread overhead: a coping: an ecclesiastical vestment worn over the alb or surplice in processions at solemn lauds and vespers but not by the celebrant at mass semicircular without sleeves and with a hood fastened across the breast with a clasp or morse the straight edge usually ornamented with a broad orphrey.—v.t. to cover with a cope.—ns. Cope′-stone Cop′ing-stone the stone which copes or tops a wall; Cop′ing the covering course of masonry of a wall.
v.i. to contend.—v.t. to vie with esp. on equal terms or successfully: to match.—n. Copes′mate (Shak.) a companion.
v.t. to barter or exchange.
Checker: Mitchell
Examples
- It is hoped that these facts will demonstrate to the Northern people that negro soldiers cannot cope with Southerners. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- You know that our young men here cannot cope with you. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I will cope with this champion myself. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Ye have plundered my mails--torn my cope of curious cut lace, which might have served a cardinal! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- But there are, besides, the individual beggars; and how does the heart of the Secretary fail him when he has to cope with THEM! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Many I grasped and set upon their feet again, but alone the work was greater than I could cope with. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The Sergeant was the only one among us who was fit to cope with her--being the only one among us who was in possession of himself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- We shall thus have a thin wall steadily growing upward but always crowned by a gigantic coping. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- As I did the same I felt the hand of the man behind me grab at my ankle, but I kicked myself free and scrambled over a grass-strewn coping. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He stopped and laid his hand upon a piece of the coping of the burial-ground enclosure, as if he would have dislodged the stone. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He is physically weak and not able to turn the strength which he possesses to coping with the physical environment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Editor: Oswald