Cop vs Leader - What's the difference?
cop | leader |
to obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to take
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to (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
to steal
to adopt
to admit, especially to a crime.
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(crafts) The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
(obsolete) The top, summit, especially of a hill.
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(obsolete) The head.
A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
(architecture, military) A merlon.
Any person that s or directs.
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# One who goes first.
# One having authority to direct.
# One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles.
# A person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.
# (music) A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.
# (music, UK) The first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster.
An animal that leads.
# The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.
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# An animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs.
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Something that leads or conducts.
# (botany) A fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant.
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# A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.
# (UK) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.
# (fishing) A section of line between the main fishing line and the snell of a hook, intended to be more resistant to bites and harder for a fish to detect than the main fishing line.
# A piece of material at the beginning or end of a to allow the material to the threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press.
# (marketing) A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.
# (printing) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
# (printing, in the plural) A row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.
# (fishing) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
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# (mining) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
# (nautical) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
# (engineering) The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.
As nouns the difference between cop and leader
is that cop is plait, braid (of hair) while leader is any person that s or directs.cop
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) coppe, from (etyl) . More at (l).Etymology 2
Possibly from (etyl) , from (etyl) kapia, to buy.Verb
(copp)- Heroin appeared on the streets of our town for the first time, and Innie watched helplessly as his sixteen-year-old brother began taking the train to Harlem to cop smack.
- When caught, he would often cop a vicious blow from his father
- No need to cop an attitude with me, junior.
- I already copped to the murder. What else do you want from me?
- Harold copped to being known as "Dirty Harry".
Derived terms
* cop a feel * cop a plea * cop off * cop on * cop out, cop-outEtymology 3
Short for above, i.e. a criminal.Synonyms
* See alsoEtymology 4
(etyl) cop, copp, from (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch kop, German Kopf.Noun
(en noun)- Cop they used to call / The tops of many hills.
Anagrams
*References
*See also
* not much cop ----leader
English
Noun
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- Follow the leader .
- We elected her team leader .
- The company is the leader in home remodeling in the county.