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Definition of trope

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Trope (n.) The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech..

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Platetrope :: Platetrope (n.) One of a pair of a paired organs.

Metalepsis :: Metalepsis (n.) The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word..

Bloodstone :: Bloodstone (n.) A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope..

Trope :: Trope (n.) The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech..

Heliotrope :: Heliotrope (n.) An instrument for making signals to an observer at a distance, by means of the sun's rays thrown from a mirror..

Rheotrope :: Rheotrope (n.) An instrument for reversing the direction of an electric current.

Stirt :: Stirrup (v. i.) A rope secured to a yard, with a thimble in its lower end for supporting a footrope..

Thaumatrope :: Thaumatrope (n.) An optical instrument or toy for showing the presistence of an impression upon the eyes after the luminous object is withdrawn.

Tropological :: Tropological (a.) Characterized by tropes; varied by tropes; tropical.

Tropeine :: Tropeine (n.) Any one of a series of artificial ethereal salts derived from the alkaloidal base tropine.

Hydrotrope :: Hydrotrope (n.) A device for raising water by the direct action of steam; a pulsometer.

Tropologize :: Tropologize (v. t.) To use in a tropological sense, as a word; to make a trope of..

Chromatrope :: Chromatrope (n.) An instrument for exhibiting certain chromatic effects of light (depending upon the persistence of vision and mixture of colors) by means of rapidly rotating disks variously colored.

Reotrope :: Reotrope (n.) See Rheotrope.

Buntline :: Buntline (n.) One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in..

Heliotrope :: Heliotrope (n.) A plant of the genus Heliotropium; -- called also turnsole and girasole. H. Peruvianum is the commonly cultivated species with fragrant flowers.

Chromatrope :: Chromatrope (n.) A device in a magic lantern or stereopticon to produce kaleidoscopic effects.

Heliostat :: Heliostat (n.) An instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, by which a sunbeam is made apparently stationary, by being steadily directed to one spot during the whole of its diurnal period; also, a geodetic heliotrope..

Hemitrope :: Hemitrope (a.) Half turned round; half inverted; (Crystallog.) having a twinned structure.

Boraginaceous :: Boraginaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants (Boraginaceae) which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many pestiferous plants..