copeとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

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

動詞

cope (三人称単数 現在形 copes, 現在分詞 coping, 過去形および過去分詞形 coped)

1. (intransitive) To deal effectively with something, especially if difficult.

   I thought I would never be able to cope with life after the amputation, but I have learned how to be happy again.

   • 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Chelsea were coping comfortably as Liverpool left Luis Suarez too isolated. Steven Gerrard was also being forced to drop too deep to offer support to the beleaguered Jay Spearing and Jordan Henderson rather than add attacking potency alongside the Uruguayan.

2. To cut and form a mitred joint in wood or metal.
3. (falconry) To clip the beak or talons of a bird.

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同意語

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

反意語

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

語源 2

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

名詞

cope (複数形 copes)

Cope worn by a bishop

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.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 4”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     the starry cope of heaven

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     Who perceiveth and seeth himselfe placed here, […] farthest from heavens coape, with those creatures, that are the worst of the three conditions; and yet dareth imaginarily place himselfe above the circle of the Moone, and reduce heaven under his feet.

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.

動詞

cope (三人称単数 現在形 copes, 現在分詞 coping, 過去形および過去分詞形 coped)

1. (transitive) To cover (a joint または 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

語源 3

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

動詞

cope (三人称単数 現在形 copes, 現在分詞 coping, 過去形および過去分詞形 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.
   • c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:

     Three thousand ducats due unto the Jew, / We freely cope your courteous pains withal.

4. (obsolete) To match oneself against; to meet; to encounter.
   • c. 1598–1600, William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:

     I love to cope him in these sullen fits.

   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:

     They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle, and struck him down.

   • 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.
   • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:

     Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man / As e'er my conversation coped withal.