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Tope vs Stope - What's the difference?

tope | stope |

As verbs the difference between tope and stope

is that tope is to drink excessively; to get drunk while stope is to excavate in the form of stopes.

As nouns the difference between tope and stope

is that tope is a small, grey, European shark, Galeorhinus galeus, that has rough skin and a long snout while stope is a mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps.

tope

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(top)
  • (lb) To drink excessively; to get drunk.
  • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small, grey, European shark, Galeorhinus galeus , that has rough skin and a long snout.
  • Etymology 3

    From (etyl).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (lb) A grove of trees.
  • a toddy tope
    (Whitworth)

    Etymology 4

    Probably from (etyl).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mound-like Buddhist sepulchre, or memorial monument, often erected over a relic; a stupa.
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    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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