Look up: trope

1. trope
   an addition to a pre-existent chant (known as the 'host'). The trope introduces and comments on the text of the host chant. Tropes are usually syllabic and are sung by a soloist; they may be monophonic or polyphonic.
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2. Trope
   The figurative use of language - as in simile and metaphor.
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3. trope
   [n] - language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
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4. trope
   figure of speech noun language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
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5. Trope
   • (n.) The word or expression so used. • (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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6. trope
   (from the article `epistemology`) ...by some evidence, there is an opposite proposition supported by evidence that is equally good. Arguments like these, which are designed to refute ... ...criticized the Academic Skeptics because they claimed to know too much, namely, that nothing could be known and that some things are more probable ....
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7. trope
   (from the article `speech, figure of`) ...(e.g., pun and anagram); and (5) errors (e.g., malapropism, periphrasis, and spoonerism). Figures involving a change in sense, such as metaphor, ... ...said to pertain either to the texture of the discourse, the local colour or details, or to the structure, the shape of the total argument. Ancie...
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8. trope
   in medieval church music, melody, explicatory text, or both added to a plainchant melody. Tropes are of two general types: those adding a new text ... [4 related articles]
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9. trope
   a semantic figure of speech or of thought that varies the meaning of a word or passage. Examples include metaphor, metonymy, objectification, and personification.
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10. Trope
    (music) A `trope` or `tropus` may be a variety of different things in medieval and modern music. The term trope derives from the Greek τρόπος (tropos), "a turn, a change" (Liddell and Scott 1889), related to the root of the verb τρ...
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11. Trope
    (linguistics) In linguistics, `trope` is a rhetorical figure of speech that consists of a play on words, i.e., using a word in a way other than what is considered its literal or normal form. The other major category of figures of speech is the wikt:τρόπος|τρό�...
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12. Trope
    (literature) A literary `trope` is the usage of figurative language in literature, or a wikt:τρόπος|τρόπος--> - tropos "turn, direction, way", related to the root of the verb τρέπειν (trepein), &qu...
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13. Trope
    (philosophy) The term "`trope`" is both a term which denotes figurative and metaphorical language and one which has been used in various technical senses. The term trope derives from the Greek τρόπος (tropos), "a turn, a change", r...
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14. Trope
    (mathematics) In geometry, a `trope` is the reciprocal of a node on a given curve or surface, or a tangent line or plane touching the given surface in a particular way. References: Weiner, E.S.C. ; Simpson, J.A. (1992),The Compact Oxford English Dictionary, New York: Clarendon Press, p. 581, ISBN 0-19-861258-3
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15. Trope
    (religion) In Judaism, `trope` (or Yiddish טראָפ `trop`) is the musical pronunciation associated with the cantillation marks (accents) used for the ritual chanting of the Torah. For Hebrew: Historically, the Torah has been chanted to a regularized tune and rhythm. This made mem...
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