trope

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature

   Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature; a motif.

   • Contrary to the familiar trope that regulation kills innovation, Harding argues that in fact the political, moral and legal clarity provided by the Warnock commission spurred investment and economic growth.
2. 2

   An addition (of dialogue, song, music, etc.) to a standard element of the liturgy,…

   An addition (of dialogue, song, music, etc.) to a standard element of the liturgy, serving as an embellishment.

   • Usually known as 'tropes,' these interpolations consisted at first of but a few words; those of the Introit at the beginning of Mass on great festivals, however, often took the form of dialogues.
3. 3

   A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative…

   A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.

   • Since the tories have thus disappointed my hopes, / And will neither regard my figures nor tropes; I'll speech against peace while Dismal's my name, / And be a true whig, while I'm Not-in-game.
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   1. 4

      Mathematical senses.

   2. 5

      Musical senses.

   3. 6

      Philosophical senses.

   4. 7

      To use, or embellish something with, a trope.

   5. 8

      Senses relating chiefly to art or literature.

      • "So clomb this first grand Thief into God's Fold" (4.192), [John] Milton writes, thus troping Satan's transgression as neither deception, seduction, nor disobedience, though he presents it in those terms elsewhere, but rather as robbery.
   6. 9

      To think or write in terms of tropes.

The neighborhood

• synonymtropify
• neighbor-trope
• neighbortropic
• neighbortropism
• neighbortropo-
• neighbor-tropy