different between cope vs combat

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??p/
• Rhymes: -??p

Etymology 1

From Middle English coupen, from Old French couper (“to strike, to cut”).

Verb

cope (third-person singular simple present copes, present participle coping, simple past and past participle coped)

1. (intransitive) To deal effectively with something, especially if difficult.
2. To cut and form a mitred joint in wood or metal.
3. (falconry) To clip the beak or talons of a bird.
   • 1856, John Henry Walsh, Manual of British Rural Sports

     the beak and talons should be closely coped

Interjection

cope

1. (rude) Expression of spite towards someone who suffered a major setback.

Synonyms

• (to deal effectively): contend, hold it together

Antonyms

• (to deal effectively): lose one's shit (vulgar)

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English cope, from Medieval Latin c?pa (“cape”) Doublet of cap, cape, and chape.

Noun

cope (plural copes)

1. A long, loose cloak worn by a priest, deacon, or bishop when presiding over a ceremony other than the Mass.
   • 1679-1715, Gilbert Burnet, History of the Reformation

     a hundred and sixty priests all in their copes

   • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. XI:

     He possessed a gorgeous cope of crimson silk and gold-thread damask, figured with a repeating pattern of golden pomegranates set in six-petalled formal blossoms, beyond which on either side was the pine-apple device wrought in seed-pearls.

2. Any covering such as a canopy or a mantle.
3. (literary) The vault or canopy of the skies, heavens etc.
4. (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.
5. (foundry) The top part of a sand casting mold.

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6. An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.

Translations

Verb

cope (third-person singular simple present copes, present participle coping, simple past and past participle coped)

1. (transitive) To cover (a joint or structure) with coping.
2. (intransitive) To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.
   • 1603, Philemon Holland (translator), The Philosophie, commonly called, the Morals (originally by Plutarch)

     [wrestlers] tripping, […] coping and tugging

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English copen, borrowed from Middle Dutch copen. Cognate with Dutch kopen, German kaufen.

Verb

cope (third-person singular simple present copes, present participle coping, simple past and past participle coped)

1. (obsolete) To bargain for; to buy.
2. (obsolete) To exchange or barter.

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3. (obsolete) To make return for; to requite; to repay.
4. (obsolete) To match oneself against; to meet; to encounter.
   • 1708, John Philips, Cyder

     Host coped with host, dire was the din of war.

5. (obsolete) To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.

Anagrams

• CEOP, OPEC

Friulian

Etymology

From Late Latin cuppa, from Latin c?pa.

Noun

cope f (plural copes)

1. goblet
2. bowl
3. cup

Middle English

Alternative forms

• cape, coope

Etymology

From Latin c?pa; possibly through a Old English *c?pa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??p(?)/

Noun

cope (plural copes)

1. A cape or cloak; a loose-fitting outer layer.
2. A cope; a cape used by clerics and priests, especially that worn by mendicants or monastics.
3. Any sort of covering or cover, especially the heavens.

Descendants

• English: cope
• Scots: caip, cape, cap

References

• “c?pe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-18.

Old French

Alternative forms

• cupe

Etymology

From Late Latin cuppa, from Latin c?pa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ku.p?/

Noun

cope f (oblique plural copes, nominative singular cope, nominative plural copes)

1. cup (vessel from which liquid is drunk)

Descendants

• French: coupe
  • ? English: coupe
• Norman: coupe

Spanish

Verb

cope

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of copar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of copar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of copar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of copar.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French, from Old French combatre, from Vulgar Latin *combattere, from Latin com- (“with”) + battuere (“to beat, strike”).

Pronunciation

• Noun:
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?m?bæt/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /?k?m?bæt/
• Verb:
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?m?bæt/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /k?m?bæt/, /?k?m?bæt/
• Rhymes: -æt

Noun

combat (countable and uncountable, plural combats)

1. A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used).

   • "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects; […]."
2. a struggle for victory

Derived terms

• combat pay
• combatant
• combative
• stage combat

Translations

Verb

combat (third-person singular simple present combats, present participle combatting or combating, simple past and past participle combatted or combated)

1. (transitive) To fight; to struggle against.

   It has proven very difficult to combat drug addiction.

2. (intransitive) To fight (with); to struggle for victory (against).
   • 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes

     To combat with a blind man I disdain.

Translations

Anagrams

• M.B. coat, tombac

Catalan

Etymology

From combatre, attested from 1490.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /kom?bat/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kum?bat/
• Rhymes: -at

Noun

combat m (plural combats)

1. combat

Verb

combat

1. third-person singular present indicative form of combatre
2. second-person singular imperative form of combatre

References

Further reading

• “combat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “combat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “combat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From combattre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.ba/
• Homophone: combats

Noun

combat m (plural combats)

1. combat (hostile interaction)
2. (figuratively) combat (contest; competition)
3. (in the plural) battle; military combat

Derived terms

Verb

combat

1. third-person singular present indicative of combattre

Further reading

• “combat” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

combat m (plural combats)

1. (Jersey) combat

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kom?bat]

Verb

combat

1. first-person singular present indicative of combate
2. third-person plural present indicative of combate
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of combate