Dope vs Grass - What's the difference?
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(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.
(countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
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, title= (countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
(uncountable) A lawn.
(uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
(countable, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
(uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
(uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
The season of fresh grass; spring.
* Latham
(obsolete, figurative) That which is transitory.
* Bible Is. xl. 7
To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
* 1893 , Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Naval Treaty’, Norton 2005, p.709:
(transitive, or, intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
To cover with grass or with turf.
To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
As a verb dope
is .As an adjective dope
is doped.As a proper noun grass is
.dope
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 !
Anagrams
* * * * ----grass
English
(wikipedia grass)Noun
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}
- two years old next grass
- Surely the people is grass .
Synonyms
* ''Gramineae (alternative name)Derived terms
* grasshopper * grass widow * grassy * lemongrass * ryegrass * supergrassSee also
* (Poaceae) *Verb
(es)- He flew at me with his knife, and I had to grass him twice, and got a cut over the knuckles, before I had the upper hand of him.
- to grass a fish
