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.
   • 1856, John Henry Walsh, Manual of British Rural Sports

     the beak and talons should be closely coped

同意語

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

反意語

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

名詞

cope (複数形 copes)

1. (slang) A coping mechanism or self-delusion one clings to in order to endure the hopelessness or despair of existence.
   • 2019, Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy, unnumbered page:

     There was some public grousing about the number of white supremacists attempting to recruit, however; some incels argued that white supremacy was just another "cope"–just another self-deluding attempt to cover over the grim truth of the blackpill.

   • 2020, anonymous, quoted in Jacob Conley, "Efficacy, Nihilism, and Toxic Masculinity Online: Digital Misogyny in the Incel Subculture", thesis submitted to The Ohio State University, page 18:

     My only 2 copes for the past 3 years have been food & the internet/surfing. Both of these copes have only hurt me further as I have addictions to both sugar and the internet now and have isolated myself further and further into the oblivion.

   • 2020, Brian Whitney, The "Supreme Gentleman" Killer: The True Story of an Incel Mass Murderer, unnumbered page:

     Just as it sounds, a Gymcel is an incel who goes to the gym a lot, which in their mind is a cope.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cope.

派生語

• copium

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.

   • 1817 December​, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, OCLC 1000449192, page 191:

     One summer night, in commune with the hope
     Thus deeply fed, amid those ruins gray
     I watched, beneath the dark sky’s starry cope; […]

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^[1].
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 arch or bend; to bow.
   • 1603, Plutarch, “The Second Booke of the Symposiaques. The Fourth Question. Whether Wrestling were of All the Exercises and Games of Prise, Most Ancient or No?”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, OCLC 1051546006, page 673:

     [W]e ſee that wreſtlers onely doe claſpe about, and imbrace one another with their armes; and the moſt part of their ſtriving one againſt another, whether it be performed by taking hold either directly or indirectly, by tripping, by coping and tugging, doe all bring them together, and enterlace them; […]

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.
   • 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] VVilliam Ponsonbie, […], OCLC 15537294:

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: […] 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 […] (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.

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