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Definition: Tope |
TopeVerb1. Drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic; "The husband drinks and beats his wife". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tope" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1873. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | TOPE, v. To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib, or swig. In the individual, toping is regarded with disesteem, but toping nations are in the forefront of civilization and power. When pitted against the hard-drinking Christians the absemious Mahometans go down like grass before the scythe. In India one hundred thousand beef- eating and brandy-and-soda guzzling Britons hold in subjection two hundred and fifty million vegetarian abstainers of the same Aryan race. With what an easy grace the whisky-loving American pushed the temperate Spaniard out of his possessions! From the time when the Berserkers ravaged all the coasts of western Europe and lay drunk in every conquered port it has been the same way: everywhere the nations that drink too much are observed to fight rather well and not too righteously. Wherefore the estimable old ladies who abolished the canteen from the American army may justly boast of having materially augmented the nation's military power. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: TopeSynonym: drink (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Drunkenness | Verb: get drunk, be drunk; Adjective: see double; take a drop too much, take a glass too much; drink; tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill, soak, sot, bum, besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush, bib, swig, carouse; sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus; take to drinking; drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish; have one's swill, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you. |
Interment | Grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house; cemetery, necropolis; burial place, burial ground; grave yard, church yard; God's acre; tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn; ossuary; bone house, charnel house, dead house; morgue; lich gate; burning ghat; crematorium, crematory; dokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence. |
Temple | Synagogue; mosque; marabout; pantheon; pagoda; joss house; dogobah, tope; kiosk; kiack, masjid. |
Vegetable | Timber, forest; wood, woodlands; timberland; hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney; underwood, brushwood; scrub; boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte.; arboretum . |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tope |
| English words defined with "tope": Penny dog ♦ Toped, Toping. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tope": Larigot. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tope" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (tope), Portuguese (topknot), Spanish (buffer, buffer stop, bumper guard, bumping post, ceiling, check, lock, masthead, stop, target, top, topmast). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Tope Ka Gola (1936) Insaf Ki Tope (1934) A tope (1983) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Plate 250. The Thrasher Shark. Alopias vulpes, (Gmel.) Bonap. The Horned Dogfish. Squalus acanthias, L. The Tope or Oil Shark. Galeorhinus galeus, (L.) Blainville. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
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| "Tope" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tope" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "tope" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Tope | Last name | 1,000 | 17,515 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tope | 27 |
color tope | 6 |
martin tope | 5 |
tantia tope | 4 |
fishing tope | 2 |
sexo tope | 2 |
rope.com tope | 2 |
gene tope | 2 |
el hotel tope | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tope"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pi (boose, booze, bouse, consume, drink, imbibe, liquor, lush, take a drink, take to drink, tipple), peshkaqen bojë hiri, korije (boscage, Bosk, bosket, bosquet, brake, coppice, copse, Grove, spinney). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | التوب ضرب صغير من سمك القرش, أسرف في معاقرة الخمر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ступа, будистки храм-паметник, пиянствувам (bib, boose, booze, bouse, drink, drinking, soak, spree). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | opíjet se (becoming drunk, booze), doušek (dram, draught, gulp, pull, sup, swallow, tiff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | gråhaj (flake, soupfin shark, tope shark). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ruwe haai (flake, soupfin shark, tope shark). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | harmaahai (flake, soupfin shark, tope shark). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tope, requin-hâ (tope shark), requin hâ (tope shark), picoler, milandre (tope shark), haut (top), hâ (tope shark), ha (tope shark), chien de mer (tope shark). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Hundshai (flake, soupfin shark, tope shark), Biethai (flake, soupfin shark, tope shark). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δροσίτης (smoothhound). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"שתכר (become drunk, take to drink, tank up, tipple). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vedel (drink, guzzle, swig, to booze, to bouse, to guzzle, to swig, to swill, to toot), közönséges kutyacápa, iszákoskodik (tipple). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | canesca (flake, soupfin shark, tope shark). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | goll er y scooyr, gobbagh rangagh, gobbag vooar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | opetay tubarao-perna de moça (flake, soupfin shark, tope shark), tubarão-perna de moça (flake, soupfin shark, tope shark), ter o vício da bebida, túmulo budista, perna de moça (flake, soupfin shark, tope shark), cação (dogfish, shark), beber em excesso. (various references) роща манговая, роща (boscage, bosk, coppice, copse, grove, hurst), кунья акула, пьянствовать (boose, booze, go on the binge, guzzle, have a binge, tipple, toping). (various references) morski pas (shark), iskapiti (drain, empty), budistička kula. (various references) tollo (flake, soupfin shark, tope shark), tolle (flake, soupfin shark, tope shark), pez peine (flake, soupfin shark, tope shark), lija (flake, soupfin shark, tope shark), gato (cat, jack, moneybag, tickle, tomcat), galeo (flake, soupfin shark, tope shark), emborracharse (become drunk, fuddle, get drunk, swill, tank up), cazón (dogfish, rock salmon, sea dog). (various references) supa (bib, booze, drink, drink to excess, fuddle, guzzle, lush, soak, tipple), pimpla (dap, guzzle, jig, tipple), gråhaj (flake, soupfin shark, tope shark). (various references) camgöz balığı, ayyaş gibi içmek, alkolik olmak (be an alcoholic, bib), çok içmek (bib, drink a lot, drink deeply, drink heavily, liquor up, lush, soak, swill). (various references) пиячити (be on the booze, boose, bouse, bum, carouse, fuddle, guzzle, knock back, make whoopee, tipple). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Eugaleus galeus, Faleus canis Linnaeus, Galeorhinus galeus, Galeus canis, Galeus vulgaris. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tope": toped, topee, topees, toper, topers, topes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tope": biotope, epitope, isotope, metope, radioisotope, stope. (additional references) | |
Words containing "tope": biotopes, epitopes, isotopes, metopes, pancytopenia, pancytopenias, photoperiod, photoperiodic, photoperiodically, photoperiodism, photoperiodisms, photoperiods, postoperative, postoperatively, radioisotopes, stoped, stoper, stopers, stopes, thrombocytopenia, thrombocytopenias, thrombocytopenic. (additional references) | |
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"Tope" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atope, fope, gope, otep, Otopen, tapay, Tdpi, tepa, tepi, teppe, tipe, tipee, Tipu, toape, tobe, tobi, toep, tofe, tohe, toipe, tole, Tompe, tooe, toop, toope, toopee, topa, topai, topak, topal, topan, topax, topel, topez, topf, Tophet, topia, topie, topit, Topix, Topjet, topl, tople, topmen, topo, topoi, topoy, toppe, toppy, Topr, topset, Topsey, topt, topten, topup, topz, toqe, torpe, tove, toxe, toye, trpe, trppe, tupe, tupee, tuple, tuppe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tope" (pronounced tō"p) |
| 2 | -ō" p | cope, dope, elope, grope, hope, lope, mope, nope, pope, rope, scope, slope, soap. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: poet. | |
| Words within the letters "e-o-p-t" | |
-1 letter: ope, opt, pet, pot, toe, top. | |
-2 letters: et, oe, op, pe, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-o-p-t" | |
+1 letter: depot, estop, netop, opted, pesto, petto, poets, repot, stope, tempo, tepoy, toped, topee, toper, topes, tophe, trope. | |
+2 letters: capote, coempt, copter, cotype, deport, depots, despot, estops, export, lepton, metope, moppet, netops, ophite, opiate, optime, pelota, pestos, petrol, peyote, peyotl, piolet, pocket, podite, poetic, poetry, pointe, polite, ponent, pontes, poppet, ported, porter, posset, posted, poster, potage, poteen, potent, pother, potmen, potpie, potsie, potted, potter, pottle, potzer, pouted, pouter, powter, presto, pretor, projet, protea, protei, ptoses, redtop, replot, report, repots, respot, roupet, sapote, sexpot, sopite, stoped, stoper, stopes, teapot, teapoy, tempos, teopan, tepoys, thorpe, tiptoe, toecap, topees, topers, tophes, topped, topper, topple, toupee, trompe, tropes, troupe, tupelo, uptore. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 6F 70 65 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- --- .--. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101111 01110000 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T o p e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 006F 0070 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54818271 |
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