As nouns the difference between stope and stoep
is that
stope is a mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps while
stoep is a raised veranda in front of a house.
As a verb stope
is (mining) to excavate in the form of stopes.
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
stope English
Noun
( en noun)
A mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, page 318,
- The other smell that worked its way into your clothes, your skin, your spirit, believed here to rise by way of long-deserted drifts and stopes , from the everyday atmosphere of Hell itself.
Derived terms
* stope assay plan
* stope board
* stope fillings
* stope hoist
* stope pillar
Verb
(mining) To excavate in the form of stopes.
(mining) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.
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stoep English
Noun
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A raised veranda in front of a house.
* 1926 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), ‘The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier’, Norton 2005, p. 1501:
*:To my surprise there was a house close beside me, a fairly large house with a broad stoep and many windows.
*1979 , , A Dry White Season , Vintage 1998, p. 89:
*:On the stoep an old man was moving about on hands and knees with red polish and brushes and dirty cloths.
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