different between tope vs stope

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /to?p/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??p/
• Rhymes: -??p
• Homophone: taupe

Etymology 1

Alteration of obsolete top (“to drink”), as in top (off).

Verb

tope (third-person singular simple present topes, present participle toping, simple past and past participle toped)

1. (archaic) To drink excessively; to get drunk.

Derived terms

• toper

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

tope (plural topes)

1. A small, grey, European shark, Galeorhinus galeus, that has rough skin and a long snout.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Tamil.

Noun

tope (plural topes)

1. (India) A grove of trees.

Etymology 4

Probably from Pali. Doublet of stupa.

Noun

tope (plural topes)

1. A mound-like Buddhist sepulchre, or memorial monument, often erected over a relic; a stupa.

Anagrams

• Pote, poet, pote, poët

Hoyahoya

Noun

tope

1. meat

References

• Philip Carr, Hoyahoya organised phonology data (2006)

Italian

Noun

tope f pl

1. plural of topa

Anagrams

• peto, poté

Middle English

Noun

tope

1. Alternative form of top

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?t?pi/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?t?p?/
• Hyphenation: to?pe

Noun

tope m (plural topes)

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Serbo-Croatian

Verb

tope (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. third-person plural present of topiti

Spanish

Etymology

Onomatopoeic top, whence topar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tope/, [?t?o.pe]
• Hyphenation: to?pe

Noun

tope m (plural topes)

1. butt, end, butt end
2. top, limit
3. stop, catch, snag (also figuratively)
4. collision
5. quarrel, fight
6. reinforcement
7. (railway) buffer, bumper
8. (nautical) masthead, lookout
9. (Mexico) speed bump

   Synonym: (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) túmulo

10. (Costa Rica, Nicaragua) equestrian parade usually held on the first day of a festival

Synonyms

• borda f (Honduras)

Derived terms

• a tope

References

“tope” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Adverb

tope

1. (colloquial, Spain) really

Verb

tope

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

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

tope (ma class, plural matope)

1. mud

West Flemish

Etymology

Noun

tope f (plural toopn, diminutive tooptje)

1. vole
2. shrew

Alternative forms

• tolpe

English

Etymology

Apparently related to step, but with uncertain phonological development. Perhaps from a German Low German word like Stoop (“step”), from Middle Low German st?pe (“step”). More at stoop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sto?p]

Noun

stope (plural stopes)

1. A mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, page 318,

     The other smell […] that worked its way into your clothes, your skin, your spirit, believed here to rise by way of long-deserted drifts and stopes, from the everyday atmosphere of Hell itself.

Derived terms

Verb

stope (third-person singular simple present stopes, present participle stoping, simple past and past participle stoped)

1. (mining) To excavate in the form of stopes.
2. (mining) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.

Anagrams

• ETOPS, Poets, Potes, T pose, T-pose, Topes, e-stop, estop, pesto, poets, poset, potes, septo-, stoep, topes

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin stuppa, from Ancient Greek ?????? (stúpp?).

Noun

stope f (plural stope)

1. tow
2. oakum

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

stope

1. past participle of stupa