copeとは

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 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

語源 2

From Middle English cope, from Latin capa (“cape”). Doublet of cape.

名詞

cope (複数形 copes)

1. A long, loose cloak worn by a priest or bishop on ceremonial occasions.
   • Bishop Burnet

     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. The "vault" or "canopy" of the skies, heavens etc.
   • Milton

     the starry cope of heaven

   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By 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.
   • Holland

     Some bending down and coping to ward the earth.

語源 3

Cognates: kopen (Dutch), kaufen (German)

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.
   • Shakespeare

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

4. (obsolete) To match oneself against; to meet; to encounter.
   • Shakespeare

     I love to cope him in these sullen fits.

   • Shakespeare

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

   • Philips

     Host coped with host, dire was the battle.

5. (obsolete) To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.
   • Shakespeare

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

アナグラム

• CEOP, OPEC