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Lope vs Lobe - What's the difference?

lope | lobe |

As nouns the difference between lope and lobe

is that lope is a horse's easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps. A lope resembles a canter while lobe is any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form.

As a verb lope

is to jump, leap.

lope

English

Verb

(lop)
  • (obsolete) To jump, leap.
  • *, Bk.IX, Ch.xxxv:
  • *:And as he cam by a ryver, in hys woodnes he wolde have made hys horse to have lopyn over the watir; and the horse fayled footyng and felle in the ryver
  • *Middleton
  • *:He that lopes on the ropes.
  • To travel an easy pace with long strides.
  • :He loped along, hour after hour, not fast but steady and covering much ground.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A horse's easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps. A lope resembles a canter.
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    lobe

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form.
  • (anatomy) A division of the brain.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The machine of a new soul , passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes' and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these ' lobes and ganglia remains obscure.}}

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    Derived terms

    * ear lobe * frontal lobe * occipital lobe * parietal lobe * temporal lobe * trilobite

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