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popped | poped |

As verbs the difference between popped and poped

is that popped is past tense of pop while poped is past tense of pope.

popped

English

Verb

(head)
  • (pop)

  • pop

    English

    Etymology 1

    Onomatopoeic – used to describe the sound, or short, sharp actions.

    Noun

  • (label) A loud, sharp sound as of a cork coming out of a bottle.
  • An effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop.
  • * 1941 , LIFE magazine, 8 September 1941, page 27:
  • The best thing on the table was a tray full of bottles of lemon pop .
  • A bottle, can, or serving of effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop.
  • Shortened from (pop shot): a quick, possibly unaimed, shot with a firearm. Possibly confusion, by assonance, with (pot) as in (pot shot).
  • (label) A portion, a quantity dispensed.
  • (label) The removal of a data item from the top of a stack.
  • * 2011 , Mark Lutz, Programming Python , page 1371:
  • A bird, the European redwing.
  • (label) The sixth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration, jerk, jounce, crackle), i.e. the rate of change of crackle.
  • Synonyms

    * (soda pop) see the list at (m)
    Derived terms
    : (see below)

    Verb

    (popp)
  • (label) To burst (something): to cause to burst.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) , chapter 1:
  • The waves came round her. She was a rock. She was covered with the seaweed which pops when it is pressed. He was lost.
  • * '>citation
  • The court was told Robins had asked if she could use the oven to heat some baby food for her child. Knutton heard a loud popping' noise "like a crisp packet being ' popped " coming from the kitchen followed by a "screeching" noise. When she saw what had happened to the kitten she was sick in the sink.
  • To act suddenly, unexpectedly or quickly.
  • To hit (something or someone).
  • (label) To shoot (usually somebody) with a firearm.
  • (label) To ejaculate.
  • (label) To remove (a data item) from the top of a stack.
  • * 2010 , Enrico Perla, ?Massimiliano Oldani, A Guide to Kernel Exploitation: Attacking the Core (page 55)
  • Once the callee (the called function) terminates, it cleans the stack that it has been locally using and pops the next value stored on top of the stack.
  • * 2011 , John Mongan, ?Noah Kindler, ?Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed
  • The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).
  • (label) To place (something) (somewhere).
  • * Milton
  • He popped a paper into his hand.
  • To swallow (a tablet of a drug).
  • * 1994 , Ruth Garner and Patricia A. Alexander, Beliefs about text and instruction with text :
  • We were drinking beer and popping pills — some really strong downers. I could hardly walk and I had no idea what I was saying.
  • To perform (a move or stunt) while riding a board or vehicle.
  • * 1995 , David Brin, Startide Rising :
  • Huck spun along the beams and joists, making me gulp when she popped a wheelie or swerved past a gaping hole...
  • * 2009 , Ben Wixon, Skateboarding: Instruction, Programming, and Park Design :
  • The tail is the back of the deck; this is the part that enables skaters to pop ollies...
  • To undergo equalization of pressure when the Eustachian tubes open.
  • To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound.
  • To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move from place to place suddenly; to dart; with in'', ''out'', ''upon , etc.
  • * Shakespeare
  • He that killed my king / Popp'd in between the election and my hopes.
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • a trick of popping up and down every moment
  • To burst open with a pop, when heated over a fire.
  • To stand out, to be visually distinctive.
  • *
  • She also looked like a star - and not the Beltway type. On a stage full of stiff suits, she popped .

    poped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pope)

  • pope

    English

    Caprara. The Pope wears the pallium.

    Alternative forms

    * Pope

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) pope, popa, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church.
  • * ante'' 950 , translating (Bede)'s ''(Ecclesiastical History) (Tanner), iv. i. 252
  • Þa]] tid [[Vitalius, Uitalius papa þæs apostolican seðles aldorbiscop.
  • * 1959 August 19 , (w, Flannery O'Connor), letter in Habit of Being (1980), 347
  • The Pope is not going to issue a bull condemning the Spanish Church's support of France and destroy the Church's right to exist in Spain.
  • * 2007 May 5, Ted Koppel (guest), Wait, Wait... Don’t tell me! , National Public Radio
  • I really did want to interview the pope'. Any ' pope . I'm not particular.
  • # Any similarly absolute and 'infallible' authority.
  • #* 1689 , G. Bulkeley, People's Right to Election'' in ''Andros Tracts (1869), II. 106
  • We often say, that every man has a pope in his belly.
  • #* 1893 January 19 , Nation (N.Y.), 46/3
  • ... accepted him [Dante Gabriel Rossetti] as the infallible Pope of Art.
  • #* 1972 June 2 , Science , 966/2
  • Both [discoveries] were rejected offhand by the popes of the field.
  • #* 1978 , Atlas World Press Review , volume 25, page 19:
  • Above all, the SED reformers cite the progress inherent in the emancipation of Westem Communist parties from the "red popes in the Kremlin."
  • # (by extension) Any similar head of a religion.
  • #* (John Mandeville), Travels (Titus C.xvi, 1919), 205
  • In þat]] yle dwelleth the Pope of hire lawe, [[they, þei clepen lobassy.
  • #* 1787 , A. Hawkins translating Vincent Mignot as The history of the Turkish, or Ottoman Empire , IV.
  • Mufti , the Mahometan pope or chief of the religion.
  • #* 2005 April 6 , Kansas City Star , b7
  • Although Islam has no formal hierarchy of clergy, Tantawy [Egypt's grand imam] often is called the Muslim pope .
  • # (uncommon) A theocrat, a priest-king, including (at first especially) over the imaginary land of (Prester John) or (now) in figurative and alliterative uses.
  • #* ante'' 1500 , (John Mandeville), ''Travels (Rawl., 1953), 103
  • Eche]] day there etyn in his court xii erchebeshopis and xx bishopis, and the patriak of [[Saint Thomas, Seynt Thomays is as here pope .
  • #* 1993 December , Vanity Fair (N.Y.), 62/1
  • , known as ‘the Pope of Pop’ is one of the top record producer-engineers in the world.
  • # (UK) An effigy of the pope traditionally burnt in Britain on Guy Fawkes' Day and (occasionally) at other times.
  • #* 1830 , Alexander Pope, The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope , page xxi:
  • This is the only piece in which the author has given a hint of his religion, by ridiculing the ceremony of burning the pope , and by mentioning with some indignation the inscription
  • #* 2005 , Gary S. De Krey, London and the Restoration, 1659–1683 (ISBN 1107320682), page 182:
  • As York's succession was challenged by burning the pope , the Duke of Monmouth was again heralded in the city as a Protestant alternative.
  • # (US, obsolete) Pope Day, the present Guy Fawkes Day.
  • (Coptic Church) An honorary title of the Coptic bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his church.
  • (Eastern Orthodoxy) An honorary title of the Orthodox bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his autocephalous church.
  • (Christianity, historical, obsolete) Any bishop of the early Christian church.
  • * 1563 , 2nd Tome Homelyes, sig. Hh.i
  • All notable Bishops were then called popes .
  • * 1703 , translating U. Chevreau as Hist. World , III. v. 379
  • All Bishops in that time had the Stile]] of Pope given them, as now we call every one of them, [[my Lord, My Lord.
  • (UK) The ruffe, a small Eurasian freshwater fish (); others of its genus.
  • * 1792 , William Augustus Osbaldiston, The British Sportsman, Or, Nobleman, Gentleman and Farmer's Dictionary of Recreation and Amusement , page 176:
  • Byfleet-river, wherein are very large pikes, jack, and tench ; perch, of eighteen inches long ; good carp, large flounders, bream, roach, dace, gudgeons, popes , large chub, and eels.
  • * 1862 , Francis T. Buckland, Curiosities of Natural History , page 230:
  • It resembles the perch (unfortunately for itself) in having a very long and prickly fin on its back, advantage of which is taken by the boys about Windsor, who are very fond of 'plugging a pope'.' This operation consists in fixing a bung in the sharp spines on the poor ' pope's back fin, and then throwing him into the water.
  • * 1865 January 14, Astley H. Baldwin, "Small Fry" in Once a Week , page 105:
  • Popes are caught whilst gudgeon-fishing with the red worm, but they are sometimes a great nuisance to the perch-fisher, as they take the minnow.
  • (rfv-sense) ).
  • * 1658 , J. Rowland translating T. Moffet as Theater of Insects'' in Topsell's ''Hist. Four-footed Beasts , 1086:
  • The English call the Wheat-worm]] Kis, Pope , Bowde, Weevil and [[wibil, Wibil.
  • * 1743 , W. Ellis, Suppl. to London & Country Brewer second edition, 259:
  • At Winchester they call this Insect [the weevil], Pope , Black-bob]], or [[creeper, Creeper.
  • * 1847 , J. O. Halliwell, Dictionary of Archaic & Provincial Words , II. 637/2
  • Popes , weevils. Urry gives this as a Hampshire word, in his MS. adds. to Ray.
  • (rfv-sense) ).
  • *1759 , "Linnæus's Systema Naturæ", The Gentleman's Magazine , page 456:
  • *:Alca genus; 6 species, including the razorbill, the penguin, the pope , and others.
  • *1773 , John Hill, "Alca", A General Natural History , volume 3, page 442:
  • The Pope : This is a very singular bird; it is about the size of our widgeon, or somewhat larger, but is not quite so large as the duck: the head is large and rounded; the eyes are small, and stand forward on the head, and lower down than in the generality of birds [...]
  • * 1822 , George Woodley, A view of the present state of the Scilly Islands , page 264-5:
  • "About a hundred yards further North" says Troutbeck, "is a 'subterraneous' cavern called the Pope's' Hole, about fifty fathoms under the ground, into which the sea flows, so called from a sort of bird which roosts in it by night, about ninety feet high above the level of the water."!! [...] It derives its name from its being a place of shelter to some puffins, ''vulgo'' "' popes ".
  • * 1864 , Charles Issac Elton, Norway: The Road and the Fell , page 94:
  • The Norsemen catch great numbers of these popes , parrots, or lunder , as they are variously named, and train dogs to go into the holes where the puffin has its nest, lying in it with feet in the air.
  • * 1874 , J. Van Voorst, Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History , page 3904:
  • I was informed by a fisherman that there were now hundreds of gannets in the channel off Plymouth, and that he had also met with some puffins (which he called "popes ")
  • ).
  • * 1771 , M. Bossu, Travels Through that Part of North America Formerly Called Louisiana , volume 1, page 371:
  • The Pope is of a bright blue round the head; on the throat it is of a fine red, and on the back of a gold green colour, it sings very finely and is the size of a canary bird.
  • * 1806 , Berquin-Duvallon, Travels in Louisiana and the Floridas, in the Year, 1802: Giving a Correct Picture of Those Countries , page 122:
  • The birds [of Louisiana] are the partridge, cardinal and pope , and a species of mocking bird, called the nightingale.
  • * 1821 Édouard de Montulé, A Voyage to North America, and the West Indies in 1817 , page 54:
  • [...] some others, such as the crow, the heron, and the wild goose, which are found in Europe, I also observed ; but the most beautiful are the pope'' bird, whose head seems bound with the most bright azure blue, and the ''cardinal , being entirely of dazzling scarlet [...]
  • (rfv-sense) The bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula ).
  • * 1864 , N. & Q. 3rd series, 5 124/2:
  • Pope', Nope]], Alp, Red-Hoop, and [[tony-hoop, Tony-Hoop, are all provincial appellations of... the common ' Bullfinch .
  • * 1885 , C. Swainson, Provincial Names for British Birds , 66:
  • Bullfinch... From Alp]], the old name for the bird used in Ray's time, the following seem to be derived:—Hoop, or Hope... Pope' ((Dorset)). Hope and [[mwope, Mwope are identical, as also ' Pope .
  • * 1963 , R. M. Nance, Glossary of Cornish Sea-words , 129:
  • *:‘Pope ’ is in (Dorset) a bullfinch.
  • * 2001 April 10 , Western Morning News (Plymouth), 26:
  • Bullfinches are known as hoops in the (Westcountry), from their calls, and as mawps and popes .
  • (rfv-sense) ).
  • * 1885 , C. Swainson, Provincial Names of British Birds , 47:
  • Red-backed shrike... Pope (Hants).
  • The red-cowled cardinal ().
  • * 1864 August 6, The Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman , page 100:
  • From the sketch of the bird which you have sent us, there is no doubt about its being the Pope Grosbeak, which is a species of the Cardinal, but not the crested one.
  • * 1883 , William Thomas Greene, The amateur's aviary of foreign birds: or, How to keep and breed foreign birds , page 96:
  • The Pope is a native of Brazil, and the female (it is altogether incongrouous to think of a lady pontiff) exactly resembles her mate.
  • * 1895 , A. A. Thom, "Dominican cardinals" in The Avicultural Magazine , page 128:
  • SIR,—I should be glad to learn how to treat Pope birds (Crestless Cardinals) when nesting.
  • * 1898 , The Avicultural Magazine , Volume 4, page 87:
  • Besides the Bicheno's Finches in this Class, the judge disqualified, in other Classes, a pair of Magpie Mannikins and a pair of Popes . These entries were presumably all disqualified on the ground that they were not true pairs: they are all birds in which the outward differences between the sexes (if there be any outward difference at all) are of an extremely slight and uncertain nature.
  • * 1956 , Foreign birds for cage and aviary , Volume 4, page 20:
  • The wisest plan is always to keep the Pope Cardinal in an aviary, and to have only one pair to each aviary.
    Usage notes
    In English usage, originally and generally taken to refer to the bishop of Rome, although the Egyptian title is actually older. Within the Coptic church, the patriarch of Alexandria is normally styled Pope ~; within the Eastern Orthodox church, their separate patriarch of Alexandria is formally titled Pope of Alexandria but referred to as such only in the liturgy and official documents.
    Coordinate terms
    * (adjective) papal * (office) papacy * (rival) antipope * (female) popess, papess * (supporter) papist
    Synonyms
    * (Catholic) Bishop of Rome, Patriarch of Rome, Vicar of Christ * (Coptic) Bishop]] of Alexandria, [[patriarch, Patriarch of Alexandria * (Orthodox) Orthodox Bishop of Alexandria * (Pope Day) See Guy Fawkes Day. * See their respective entries .
    Derived terms
    * antipope * black pope, Black Pope * does the Pope shit in the woods? * is the Pope Catholic? * pope-bulled * pope-burning * Pope catholic * pope-conjurer * pope-consecrated * Pope Day * popedom * pope-fly * Pope of Fools * pope-given * Pope's-hat * pope-horn * Pope John * Pope-king * Pope's Knight * pope's living room * pope's-milk * popemobile, Popemobile * Pope Night * pope's nose * pope pleasing * pope-powdered * pope-prompted * pope-rid * Pope-trumpery * pope worshipper * Red Pope * White Pope

    Verb

    (pop)
  • To act as or like a pope.
  • * 1537 , T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman, Life & Lett. Cromwell (1902), II. 89
  • Paul popith Jolyly]], that woll desire the worlde to pray for the [[king's, kinges apeyrement.
  • * 1624 , R. Montagu, Gagg for New Gospell? xiii. 95
  • , that now Popeth it .
  • * 1966 February , Duckett's Reg. , 14/2
  • would pope it in his own way, God guiding him.
  • * 1989 September 24 , Los Angeles Times , iii. 22/1
  • I saw where the Pope poped and where the pigeons flocked. Pretty interesting if you're Catholic and like pigeons.
  • (colloquial) To convert to Roman Catholicism.
  • * in (Evelyn Waugh)'s Life R. Knox (1959), ii. i. 142
  • I'm not going to ‘Pope ’ until after the war (if I'm alive).
  • * 1990 October 7 , Sunday Telegraph , 26/5
  • A prominent Anglican priest had, to use the term generally employed on these occasions, ‘Poped ’—that is, left the Church of England in order to become a Roman Catholic.

    Etymology 2

    By analogy with .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (alcoholic beverages) Any mulled wine (traditionally including tokay) considered similar and superior to bishop.
  • * 1855 , C. W. Johnson, Farmer's & Planter's Encycl. Rural Affairs , 1157/1
  • When made with Burgundy]] or Bordeaux, the mixture was called Bishop; when with old Rhenish, its name was Cardinal; and when with [[tokay, Tokay, it was dignified with the title of Pope .
  • * 1920 , G. Saintsbury, Notes on Cellar-bk. , xi. 162
  • *:‘Pope ’, i.e. mulled burgundy, is Antichristian, from no mere Protestant point of view.
  • * 1965 , O. A. Mendelsohn, Dict. Drink , 264
  • Pope , a spiced drink made from tokay..., ginger, honey and roasted orange.
  • * 1976 January 15 , Times (London), 12/8
  • Many of these hot drinks have clerical names—Bishop]] being a type of mulled port, Cardinal using claret, and Pope [[champagne, Champagne.

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) , from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Russian Orthodoxy) , a Russian Orthodox priest.
  • * 1662 , J. Davies translating A. Olearius as Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors , 139
  • The other Ecclesiastical Orders are distinguish'd into Proto-popes', ' Popes , (or Priests) and Deacons.
  • * 1756 , Compend. Authentic & Entertaining Voy. , V. 202
  • Every priest is called pope , which implies father.
  • * 1996 September 20 , Daily Telegraph , 25/5
  • In the non-Roman rites diocesan priests are often referred to as popes .

    Etymology 4

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, dialectal, obsolete) The whippoorwill (Caprimulgus vociferus ).
  • * 1781 , S. Peters, Gen. Hist. Connecticut , 257:
  • The Whipperwill has so named itself by its nocturnal songs. It is also called the pope', by reason of its darting with great swiftness, from the clouds almost to the ground, and bawling out ' Pope !
  • (US, dialectal, rare) The nighthawk (Chordeiles minor ).
  • * 1956 , Massachusetts Audubon Soc. Bull. , 40 81:
  • Common Nighthawk... Pope (Conn[ecticut]. From the sound made by its wings while dropping through the air).

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