Tope vs Stope - What's the difference?
tope | stope |
(lb) To drink excessively; to get drunk.
A small, grey, European shark, Galeorhinus galeus , that has rough skin and a long snout.
A mound-like Buddhist sepulchre, or memorial monument, often erected over a relic; a stupa.
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A mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, page 318,
(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.
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
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From (etyl).Etymology 4
Probably from (etyl).Noun
(en noun)stope
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(en noun)- 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.