cope
IPA: kˈoʊp
noun
- (incel slang) A coping mechanism or self-delusion one clings to in order to endure a hopeless situation.
- (liturgy) A long, loose cloak worn by a priest, deacon, or bishop when presiding over a ceremony other than the Mass.
- Any covering such as a canopy or a mantle.
- (literary) The vault or canopy of the skies, heavens etc.
- (construction) A covering piece on top of a wall exposed to the weather, usually made of metal, masonry, or stone, and sloped to carry off water.
- (foundry) The top part of a sand casting mold.
- An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Washington County, Colorado, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Indiana, United States.
- A town in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, United States.
verb
- (intransitive) To deal effectively with something, especially if difficult.
- To cut and form a mitred joint in wood or metal.
- (falconry) To clip the beak or talons of a bird.
- (transitive) To cover (a joint or structure) with coping.
- (intransitive) To form a cope or arch; to arch or bend; to bow.
- (obsolete) To bargain for; to buy.
- (obsolete) To exchange or barter.
- (obsolete) To make return for; to requite; to repay.
- (obsolete) To match oneself against; to meet; to encounter.
- (obsolete) To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.
- (obsolete, dialect) To tie or sew up the mouth of a ferret used for hunting rabbits.
- (obsolete, figuratively) To silence or prevent from speaking.
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Examples of "cope" in Sentences
- He had to cope with the complaints.
- Cope himself left the court at the end of that year.
- Fortescue himself (in cope) with some of his servers
- The Church windows were opened to cope with the blast.
- The cope is a liturgical vestment in the form of a cape.
- Something is needed to cope with the scale problems, and urgently.
- How the family copes with that is the core and the charm of the film.
- The railroad management also had to cope with outmoded station facilities.
- Cope and Marsh were extremely secretive as to the source of their fossils.
- I think an inability to cope is a symptom, and poverty via bad government is the problem.
- I think your misery has affected you and your judgment so badly that you feel the only way you can cope is to judge others.
- U.S. actress Angelina Jolie is urging the world to help Pakistan in the long term cope with the worst flooding in its history.
- The use of the cope is optional at the blessing of the Palms; if the priest uses it, he simply removes it for the beginning of the Mass.
- A cope is worn by the celebrant, and dalmatics by the assistant ministers; while the two thurifers, crucifer and taperers have girdled albs and dalmatics.
- The Assistant priest in cope is beside him) (Note the stripped altar and the smaller cross upon the altar; likewise, there is no canopy above the papal throne)
- Before anyone asks: the wearing of the pallium with the cope is not foreseen by the rubrics, as far as I know, but seems customary in Toledo, as you can see in older photographs.
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