Mope vs Pine - What's the difference?
mope | pine |
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
(countable, uncountable) Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus .
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, title=(The China Governess), chapter=3 (countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
(uncountable) The wood of this tree.
(archaic) A pineapple.
To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress; to droop.
* Tickell
To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
* 1855 , John Sullivan Dwight (translator), “Oh Holy Night”, as printed in 1871, Adolphe-Charles Adam (music), “Cantique de Noël”, G. Schirmer (New York), originally by Placide Cappeau de Roquemaure, 1847
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To grieve or mourn for.
To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.
* Bishop Hall
As verbs the difference between mope and pine
is that mope is to carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout while pine is .As a noun mope
is a dull, spiritless person.mope
English
Verb
(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/]
Anagrams
* *pine
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
citation, passage=Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine , while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.}}
Synonyms
* (tree of genus Pinus) pine tree * (wood) pinewoodDerived terms
* bunya pine * hoop pine * Huon pine * jack pine * Norfolk Island pine * pineal * pineapple * * * pinecone, pine cone * * pine needle * pine nut * * * pine tar * pine tree * * stone pine * white pine * Wollemi pine * yellow pineEtymology 2
(etyl) . Cognate to (m). Entered Germanic with Christianity; cognate to (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).Verb
(pin)- The roses wither and the lilies pine .
- Laura was pining for Bill all the time he was gone.
- Long lay the world in sin and error pining / Till He appear’d and the soul felt its worth
citation, isbn=978054505575 , page=29 , passage=The way the story went was that the man's foot healed up all right but that he just pined away.}}
- (Milton)
- One is pined in prison, another tortured on the rack.