Mope vs Dwell - What's the difference?
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To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout
To make spiritless and stupid.
A dull, spiritless person.
(pornography industry) A bottom feeder who "mopes" around a pornography studio hoping for his big break and often does bit parts in exchange for room and board and meager pay.
* 2011 : LA Weekly , documenting uses dating to the 1990s
(engineering) A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.
(engineering) A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed.
(electrical engineering) A planned delay in a timed control program.
(automotive) In a petrol engine, the period of time the ignition points are closed to let current flow through the ignition coil in between each spark. This is measured as an angle in degrees around the camshaft in the distributor which controls the points, for example in a 4-cylinder engine it might be 55° (spark at 90° intervals, points closed for 55° between each).
To live; to reside.
* Peacham
* C. J. Smith
To linger (on ) a particular thought, idea etc.; to remain fixated (on).
(engineering) To be in a given state.
To abide; to remain; to continue.
* Shakespeare
* Wordsworth
Mope is a related term of dwell.
In lang=en terms the difference between mope and dwell
is that mope is to make spiritless and stupid while dwell is to abide; to remain; to continue.As verbs the difference between mope and dwell
is that mope is to carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout while dwell is to live; to reside.As nouns the difference between mope and dwell
is that mope is a dull, spiritless person while dwell is (engineering) a period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.mope
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(mop)Derived terms
* moper * moperyNoun
(en noun)- (Burton)
- The porn industry is many things. Subtle is not one of them. So when Porn Inc. went searching for a job title for people like Stephen Hill, the choice was "mope ." It's based on the off-camera life of these fringe actors, hangers-on who mope around the studios hoping for a bit role, which if they're lucky might bring them $50 plus food — and the chance to have sex with a real, live woman. [http://www.laweekly.com/2011-02-24/news/porn-machete-murder/]
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
- the parish in which I was born, dwell , and have possessions
- The poor man dwells in a humble cottage near the hall where the lord of the domain resides.
- I'll rather dwell in my necessity.
- Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart.