Rooped vs Trooped - What's the difference?
rooped | trooped |
(roop)
(troop)
A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude.
* Shakespeare
(military) A small unit of cavalry or armour commanded by a captain, corresponding to a platoon or company of infantry.
A detachment of soldiers or police, especially horse artillery, armour, or state troopers.
Soldiers, military forces (usually "troops").
* Shakespeare
* Macaulay
(nonstandard) A company of stageplayers; a troupe.
(label) A basic unit of girl or boy scouts, consisting of 6 to 10 youngsters.
A group of baboons.
A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.
(mycology) Mushrooms that are in a close group but not close enough to be called a cluster.
To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.
* , chapter=5
, title= To march on; to go forward in haste.
To move or march as if in a crowd.
As verbs the difference between rooped and trooped
is that rooped is past tense of roop while trooped is past tense of troop.rooped
English
Verb
(head)roop
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (Scotland)Etymology 1
From (etyl) ropen, from (etyl) .Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) rop, from (etyl) .Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 3
From .Derived terms
* (l)Anagrams
*trooped
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * *troop
English
Noun
(en noun)- That which should accompany old age — / As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends — / I must not look to have.
- Farewell the plumed troop , and the big wars.
- His troops moved to victory with the precision of machines.
Derived terms
* trooper * troopship * troop carrierVerb
(en verb)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}