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Dope vs Dome - What's the difference?

dope | dome |

As a verb dope

is .

As an adjective dope

is doped.

As a noun dome is

.

dope

English

Noun

  • (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
    • 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.''
  • (uncountable, slang) Information.
  • * What's the latest dope on the stock market?
  • (countable, slang) A stupid person.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * dope fiend * dope sheet * dope slap/dope-slap

    Verb

  • (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.

    • Adjective

    (er)
  • (slang) Great, amazing or extraordinary.
    • That party was dope !

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    dome

    English

    (wikipedia dome)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (architecture) A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere; a cupola.
  • Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover.
    • a cake dome
  • (slang) head (including the meaning 'oral sex')
  • * Was he in trouble, half a ton of rubble landed on the top of his dome . - , "Right Said Fred"
  • * I got 5 Georgia homes where I rest my Georgia bones, Come anywhere on my land and I'll aim at your Georgia dome . - Ludacris
  • * Put your mouth on a dick, give me Georgia Dome -- Ying Yang Twins, "Georgia Dome"
  • (obsolete, poetic) A building; a house; an edifice.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Approach the dome , the social banquet share.
  • Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building, such as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.
  • (crystallography) A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.

    • Derived terms

    * chrome dome

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