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Definition of trope
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Trope (n.) The word or
expression
so used.
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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..
Footrope
::
Footrope
(n.) The rope
rigged
below a yard, upon which men stand when
reefing
or
furling;
--
formerly
called
a
horse..
Platetrope
::
Platetrope
(n.) One of a pair of a
paired
organs.
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..
Turnsole
::
Turnsole
(a.) A plant of the genus
Heliotropium;
heliotrope;
-- so named
because
its
flowers
are
supposed
to turn
toward
the sun.
Figure
::
Figure
(n.) A mode of
expressing
abstract
or
immaterial
ideas by words which
suggest
pictures
or
images
from the
physical
world;
pictorial
language;
a
trope;
hence,
any
deviation
from the
plainest
form of
statement..
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..
Reotrope
::
Reotrope
(n.) See
Rheotrope.
Anisotrope
::
Anisotrope
(a.) Alt. of
Anisotropi.
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..
Hemitrope
::
Hemitrope
(a.) Half
turned
round;
half
inverted;
(Crystallog.)
having
a
twinned
structure.
Girasole Girasol
::
Girasole
Girasol
(n.) See
Heliotrope.
Horse
::
Horse (n.) See
Footrope,
a..
Stirt
::
Stirrup
(v. i.) A rope
secured
to a yard, with a
thimble
in its lower end for
supporting
a
footrope..
Metonymy
::
Metonymy
(n.) A trope in which one word is put for
another
that
suggests
it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table
instead
of good
provisions;
we read
Virgil,
that is, his
poems;
a man has a warm
heart,
that is, warm
affections..
Heliotrope
::
Heliotrope
(n.) See
Bloodstone
(a).
Tropological
::
Tropological
(a.)
Characterized
by
tropes;
varied
by
tropes;
tropical.
Thaumatrope
::
Thaumatrope
(n.) An
optical
instrument
or toy for
showing
the
presistence
of an
impression
upon the eyes after the
luminous
object
is
withdrawn.
Tropologize
::
Tropologize
(v. t.) To use in a
tropological
sense,
as a word; to make a trope of..
Tropical
::
Tropical
(n.)
Rhetorically
changed
from its exact
original
sense;
being of the
nature
of a
trope;
figurative;
metaphorical.
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