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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