Doped vs Dopped - What's the difference?
doped | dopped |
Drugged.
(electronics)Describing a semiconductor that has had small amounts of elements added to create charge carriers.
Covered with dope, a glue or paint like pore filler.
(dope)
(dop)
(South Africa, slang). A drink.
(South Africa, slang) An imprecise measure of alcohol; a dash.
(obsolete) A dip; a low courtesy.
A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.
(South Africa, slang) To fail or to plug (an examination, standard or grade)
(South Africa, slang) To drink alcohol.
* 2004 , Patrick Stevens, Politics is the Greatest Game (page 170)
To dip.
As verbs the difference between doped and dopped
is that doped is past tense of dope while dopped is past tense of dop.As an adjective doped
is drugged.doped
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was so doped after the surgery that it took him 2 hours to remember his name.
- The silicon was doped with boron to make a p-type semiconductor.
- The doped fabric covering the Hindenburg was very flammable.
Verb
(head)dopped
English
Verb
(head)dop
English
Noun
(en noun)- Let's go to the bar for a dop .
- Give me a dop of brandy.
- (Ben Jonson)
Synonyms
* (cup in which diamond is cut) doopVerb
(dopp)- I dopped my exams.
- They not only forswore dopping themselves, but also contrived to make the National Party forgo a dop.
- (Walton)
