Dope vs Infuse - What's the difference?

dope | infuse |

As verbs the difference between dope and infuse

is that dope is while infuse is to cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.

As an adjective dope

is doped.

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 !

Anagrams

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infuse

English

Verb

(infus)

To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.

To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal).

* Coxe

One scruple of dried leaves is infused in ten ounces of warm water.

To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with).

* Shakespeare

Infuse his breast with magnanimity.

* Shakespeare

infusing him with self and vain conceit

To instill as a quality.

* Shakespeare

That souls of animals infuse themselves / Into the trunks of men.

* Jonathan Swift

Why should he desire to have qualities infused into his son, which himself never possessed, or knew, or found the want of, in the acquisition of his wealth?

To undergo infusion.

* Let it infuse for five minutes.

To make an infusion with (an ingredient); to tincture; to saturate.

(Francis Bacon)

(obsolete) To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.

* Denham

That strong Circean liquor cease to infuse .

References

* 1902 Webster's International dictionary. * 1984 Consise Oxford 7th ed.