different between cope vs copying

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?pi??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?pi??/
• Hyphenation: copy?ing

Verb

copying

1. present participle of copy

Noun

copying (countable and uncountable, plural copyings)

1. (countable) an instance of the making of a copy
2. (uncountable) the practice of making one or more copies

Translations