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Trope
(gcide) | Trope \Trope\, n. [L. tropus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to turn. See
Torture, and cf. Trophy, Tropic, Troubadour,
Trover.] (Rhet.)
(a) 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.
(b) The word or expression so used.
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In his frequent, long, and tedious speeches, it has
been said that a trope never passed his lips.
--Bancroft.
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Note: Tropes are chiefly of four kinds: metaphor, metonymy,
synecdoche, and irony. Some authors make figures the
genus, of which trope is a species; others make them
different things, defining trope to be a change of
sense, and figure to be any ornament, except what
becomes so by such change.
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Anisotrope
(gcide) | Anisotrope \An"i*so*trope`\, Anisotropic \An`i*so*trop"ic\, a.
[Gr. ? unequal + ? a turning, ? to turn.] (Physics)
Not isotropic; having different properties in different
directions; thus, crystals of the isometric system are
optically isotropic, but all other crystals are anisotropic.
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Boltrope
(gcide) | Boltrope \Bolt"rope`\, n. (Naut.)
A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the
sail.
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Breastrope
(gcide) | Breastrope \Breast"rope`\ (br[e^]st"r[=o]p`), n.
See Breastband.
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Chromatrope
(gcide) | Chromatrope \Chro"ma*trope\, n. [Gr. ? color + ? turn, rotation,
? to turn.]
1. (Physics) 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.
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2. A device in a magic lantern or stereopticon to produce
kaleidoscopic effects.
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Enorthotrope
(gcide) | Enorthotrope \En*or"tho*trope\, n. [Gr. ? in + ? upright,
correct + ? to turn.]
An optical toy; a card on which confused or imperfect figures
are drawn, but which form to the eye regular figures when the
card is rapidly revolved. See Thaumatrope.
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Epitrope
(gcide) | Epitrope \E*pit"ro*pe\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ? reference,
arbitration, fr. ? to turn over, to give up, yield; 'epi`
upon, over + ? to turn.] (Rhet.)
A figure by which permission is either seriously or
ironically granted to some one, to do what he proposes to do;
e. g., "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still."
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Footrope
(gcide) | Footrope \Foot"rope`\, n. (Aut.)
(a) The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when
reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse.
(b) That part of the boltrope to which the lower edge of a
sail is sewed.
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heliotrope
(gcide) | Bloodstone \Blood"stone`\, n. (Min.)
(a) A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if
with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope.
(b) Hematite, an ore of iron yielding a blood red powder or
"streak."
[1913 Webster]Heliotrope \He"li*o*trope\, n. [F. h['e]liotrope, L.
heliotropium, Gr. ?; ? the sun + ? to turn, ? turn. See
Heliacal, Trope.]
1. (Anc. Astron.) An instrument or machine for showing when
the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.
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2. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Heliotropium; -- called also
turnsole and girasole. Heliotropium Peruvianum is
the commonly cultivated species with fragrant flowers.
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3. (Geodesy & Signal Service) An instrument for making
signals to an observer at a distance, by means of the
sun's rays thrown from a mirror.
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4. (Min.) See Bloodstone
(a) .
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Heliotrope purple, a grayish purple color.
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Heliotrope
(gcide) | Bloodstone \Blood"stone`\, n. (Min.)
(a) A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if
with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope.
(b) Hematite, an ore of iron yielding a blood red powder or
"streak."
[1913 Webster]Heliotrope \He"li*o*trope\, n. [F. h['e]liotrope, L.
heliotropium, Gr. ?; ? the sun + ? to turn, ? turn. See
Heliacal, Trope.]
1. (Anc. Astron.) An instrument or machine for showing when
the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.
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2. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Heliotropium; -- called also
turnsole and girasole. Heliotropium Peruvianum is
the commonly cultivated species with fragrant flowers.
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3. (Geodesy & Signal Service) An instrument for making
signals to an observer at a distance, by means of the
sun's rays thrown from a mirror.
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4. (Min.) See Bloodstone
(a) .
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Heliotrope purple, a grayish purple color.
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Heliotrope purple
(gcide) | Heliotrope \He"li*o*trope\, n. [F. h['e]liotrope, L.
heliotropium, Gr. ?; ? the sun + ? to turn, ? turn. See
Heliacal, Trope.]
1. (Anc. Astron.) An instrument or machine for showing when
the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.
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2. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Heliotropium; -- called also
turnsole and girasole. Heliotropium Peruvianum is
the commonly cultivated species with fragrant flowers.
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3. (Geodesy & Signal Service) An instrument for making
signals to an observer at a distance, by means of the
sun's rays thrown from a mirror.
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4. (Min.) See Bloodstone
(a) .
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Heliotrope purple, a grayish purple color.
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Heliotroper
(gcide) | Heliotroper \He"li*o*tro`per\, n.
The person at a geodetic station who has charge of the
heliotrope.
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Hemitrope
(gcide) | Hemitrope \Hem"i*trope\, a. [Hemi- + Gr. ? to turn: cf. F.
h['e]mitrope.]
Half turned round; half inverted; (Crystallog.) having a
twinned structure.
[1913 Webster]Hemitrope \Hem"i*trope\, n.
That which is hemitropal in construction; (Crystallog.) a
twin crystal having a hemitropal structure.
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Hydrotrope
(gcide) | Hydrotrope \Hy"dro*trope\, n. [Hydro-, 1 + Gr. ? to turn,
direct.]
A device for raising water by the direct action of steam; a
pulsometer.
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Platetrope
(gcide) | Platetrope \Plat"e*trope\, n. [Gr. ? breadth + ? to turn.]
(Anat.)
One of a pair of a paired organs.
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Reotrope
(gcide) | Reotrope \Re"o*trope\ (-tr?p), n. (Physics)
See Rheotrope.
[1913 Webster]Rheotrope \Rhe"o*trope\, n. [Gr. "rei^n to flow + ??? to turn.]
(Elec.)
An instrument for reversing the direction of an electric
current. [Written also reotrope.]
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reotrope
(gcide) | Reotrope \Re"o*trope\ (-tr?p), n. (Physics)
See Rheotrope.
[1913 Webster]Rheotrope \Rhe"o*trope\, n. [Gr. "rei^n to flow + ??? to turn.]
(Elec.)
An instrument for reversing the direction of an electric
current. [Written also reotrope.]
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Rheotrope
(gcide) | Rheotrope \Rhe"o*trope\, n. [Gr. "rei^n to flow + ??? to turn.]
(Elec.)
An instrument for reversing the direction of an electric
current. [Written also reotrope.]
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Sematrope
(gcide) | Sematrope \Sem"a*trope\, n. [Gr. sh^ma sign + tre`pein to turn.
]
An instrument for signaling by reflecting the rays of the sun
in different directions. --Knight.
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Thaumatrope
(gcide) | Thaumatrope \Thau"ma*trope\ (th[add]"m[.a]*tr[=o]p), n. [Gr.
qay^ma a wonder + tre`pein to turn.] (Opt.)
An optical instrument or toy for showing the persistence of
an impression upon the eyes after the luminous object is
withdrawn.
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Note: It consists of a card having on its opposite faces
figures of two different objects, or halves of the same
object, as a bird and a cage, which, when the card is
whirled rapidly round a diameter by the strings that
hold it, appear to the eye combined in a single
picture, as of a bird in its cage.
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Trope
(gcide) | Trope \Trope\, n. [L. tropus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to turn. See
Torture, and cf. Trophy, Tropic, Troubadour,
Trover.] (Rhet.)
(a) 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.
(b) The word or expression so used.
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In his frequent, long, and tedious speeches, it has
been said that a trope never passed his lips.
--Bancroft.
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Note: Tropes are chiefly of four kinds: metaphor, metonymy,
synecdoche, and irony. Some authors make figures the
genus, of which trope is a species; others make them
different things, defining trope to be a change of
sense, and figure to be any ornament, except what
becomes so by such change.
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Tropeine
(gcide) | Tropeine \Tro*pe"ine\, n. (Chem.)
Any one of a series of artificial ethereal salts derived from
the alkaloidal base tropine.
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Zoetrope
(gcide) | Zoetrope \Zo"e*trope\, n. [Gr. ? life + ? turning, from ? to
turn.]
An optical toy, in which figures made to revolve on the
inside of a cylinder, and viewed through slits in its
circumference, appear like a single figure passing through a
series of natural motions as if animated or mechanically
moved.
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