Doge vs Dope - What's the difference?
doge | dope |
(historical) The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
* 1797 , , A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States , page 62
* 1982 , , A History of Venice , chapter 34, page 346
(uncountable) Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
(uncountable) An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.
(uncountable, aeronautics) Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen,
(uncountable, slang) Any illicit or narcotic drug that produces euphoria or satisfies an addiction; particularly heroin.
* 1953 , , Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer , Pantheon, 1981, p. 18
(uncountable, slang) Information.
* What's the latest dope on the stock market?
(countable, slang) A stupid person.
(slang) To affect with drugs.
To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).
(electronics) To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).
(slang) To use drugs.
(slang) Great, amazing or extraordinary.
As a noun doge
is doge.As a verb dope is
.As an adjective dope is
doped.doge
English
(wikipedia doge)Alternative forms
* DogeNoun
(en-noun)- In the thirteenth century, a new method of appointing the doge , by the famous ballot of Venice, a complicated mixture of choice and chance, was adopted.
- This reply was one of the first important pronouncements to be made by Antonio Grimani, who on 6 July had been elected seventy-fourth Doge of Venice in succession to Leonardo Loredan.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "doge")Derived terms
* dogedom * dogeless * dogeshipdope
English
Noun
- Here's a cure for all your troubles, here's an end to all distress. It's the old dope peddler, with his powdered happiness.''
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* dope fiend * dope sheet * dope slap/dope-slapVerb
Adjective
(er)- That party was dope !