单词 | lope |
释义 | lopen.ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > sudden or complete change > [noun] leapc1000 lope14.. revolution?a1439 reverse?1492 metamorphosis1548 transformation1581 earthquake1592 upside down1593 metamorphose1608 sea-changea1616 peritropea1656 transilience1657 transiliency1661 saltus1665 catastrophe1696 peristrophe1716 transiliency1769 upheaving1821 upset1822 saltation1844 shake1847 upheaval1850 cataclysm1861 shake-out1939 virage1989 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] > a leap, spring, or jump leapOE startc1330 saulta1350 lope14.. launchc1440 sprenting?a1475 loup1487 springa1500 stenda1500 benda1522 sprenta1522 bounce1523 jump1552 sally1589 rise1600 bound1667 vault1728 sprinta1800 spang1817 spend1825 upleap1876 sprit1880 bunny hop1950 bunny-hop1969 14.. S. Eng. Leg. (Bodl. 779) in Herrig Archiv LXXXII. 402/47 He ordeyned þat ech man þat prest wolde be scholde vndirfong þe ordres fro gre to gre; wit-oute lope & defaute. a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 3436 He at a lope was at hir, and hir kist. c1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine ii. 223 Tyme goth fast, it is full lyght of lope. 1483 Cath. Angl. 220/2 A Lope, saltus. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 51 Quhairfor, ony Lope thocht wondirful, is..commounlie called the Salmont lope. 1662 J. Cotgrave Wits Interpreter (ed. 2) 323 He makes no more to run on a rope, Then a Puritan does of a Bishop or Pope. And comes down with a vengeance at one single lope. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. viii. §47 618 I cannot do the Author Justice..without taking a large Lope, over the next Reign, into that which followed. 2. A long bounding stride. Now used chiefly of people. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > [noun] > running > running with long strides > a long running stride lope1809 the world > animals > by locomotion > locomotion of animals > [noun] > lope lope1846 1809 M. L. Weems Life Gen. F. Marion xii. 108 He dashed off at a charging lope. 1833 J. Hall Harpe's Head 38 On the buck came, at an easy lope, until he reached the top of a little knoll. 1846 T. B. Thorpe Myst. Backwoods 13 [The mustang pony] goes rollicking ahead, with the eternal lope..a mixture of two or three gaits, as easy as the motions of a cradle. 1889 R. Kipling From Sea to Sea (1900) I. xx. 430 The Jap soldier..doubles with the easy lope of the 'rickshaw coolie. 1894 S. R. Crockett Lilac Sunbonnet 310 At his usual swift wolf's lope he was out of sight..speedily. 1910 C. E. Mulford Hopalong Cassidy xxi. 135 As he rode at an easy lope he kept a constant lookout for signs of rustling. 1953 R. Chandler Let. 15 Mar. in R. Chandler Speaking (1966) 28 Walks with a forward-leaning lope, huh? 1961 L. van der Post Heart of Hunter i. ii. 25 The others followed close on her heels with a strange stumbling lope. 1973 Houston (Texas) Post 14 Oct. (Spotlight Suppl.) 15/4 Somehow..Hero Hazard reaches the Sphinx..and evades the grisly Arab agents after a lope up and down the Great Pyramid. Compounds lope-way n. (see quots.). ΚΠ c1736 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms (1876) Lope-way, a private footpath. 1791 Gentleman's Mag. 61 ii. 928 A lope-way in Kent is now a short or quick way or bridle-way. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lopev. 1. a. intransitive. To leap, jump, spring. Also with about. Obsolete exc. dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > leap, spring, or jump [verb (intransitive)] leapc900 startOE reseOE springa1275 throwc1275 upleapc1275 launch13.. aspringc1315 sault1377 lance?a1400 sprenta1400 loupc1480 lope1483 spang1513 bendc1530 jump1530 spend1533 stend1567 vaulta1568 pract1568 exult1570 bound1593 saltate1623 subsalt1623 jet1635 spoutc1650 volt1753 1483 Cath. Angl. 220/2 To Lope, salire, saltare. 1529 D. Lindsay Compl. 251 And go, all, to the hie boirdall: Thare may we lope at lybertie, Withouttin ony grauitie. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xvii. 119 Buciphal the grit horse of allexander..syne tholit hym to lope on hym. 1581 N. Woodes Conflict of Conscience iii. iv. D iij b In gude feth sir, this newis de gar me lope. a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Spanish Gipsie (1653) iv. sig. G He that loapes on the Ropes, shew me such an other wench. a1734 R. North Lives of Norths (1826) I. 62 Not by such large strides as he made in getting money, and loping into preferments. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) i. ii. §82 73 It is plain, his Malice lopes at a Venture. 1891 J. C. Atkinson Last of Giant-killers 69 The Staff itself leaping—or rather loping—about with a startling activity. ΚΠ a1600 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems xliv. 31 I quake for feir—my puncis lope—I shake betuix dispair and hope. 2. intransitive. To run, run away. Now only slang and dialect (see English Dial. Dict.). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily fleec825 runOE swervea1225 biwevec1275 skip1338 streekc1380 warpa1400 yerna1400 smoltc1400 stepc1460 to flee (one's) touch?1515 skirr1548 rubc1550 to make awaya1566 lope1575 scuddle1577 scoura1592 to take the start1600 to walk off1604 to break awaya1616 to make off1652 to fly off1667 scuttle1681 whew1684 scamper1687 whistle off1689 brush1699 to buy a brush1699 to take (its, etc.) wing1704 decamp1751 to take (a) French leave1751 morris1765 to rush off1794 to hop the twig1797 to run along1803 scoot1805 to take off1815 speela1818 to cut (also make, take) one's lucky1821 to make (take) tracks (for)1824 absquatulize1829 mosey1829 absquatulate1830 put1834 streak1834 vamoose1834 to put out1835 cut1836 stump it1841 scratch1843 scarper1846 to vamoose the ranch1847 hook1851 shoo1851 slide1859 to cut and run1861 get1861 skedaddle1862 bolt1864 cheese it1866 to do a bunkc1870 to wake snakes1872 bunk1877 nit1882 to pull one's freight1884 fooster1892 to get the (also to) hell out (of)1892 smoke1893 mooch1899 to fly the coop1901 skyhoot1901 shemozzle1902 to light a shuck1905 to beat it1906 pooter1907 to take a run-out powder1909 blow1912 to buzz off1914 to hop it1914 skate1915 beetle1919 scram1928 amscray1931 boogie1940 skidoo1949 bug1950 do a flit1952 to do a scarper1958 to hit, split or take the breeze1959 to do a runner1980 to be (also get, go) ghost1986 1575 G. Gascoigne Fruites of Warre lii, in Posies sig. Hviv Yet was he forst, alwayes from lawes to lope. a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) sig. A3v This whiniard has gard many better men to lope then thou. 1632 T. E. Lawes Womens Rights 146 They may lope ouer ditch and dale. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Let's buy a Brush, or Let's Lope, let us scour off, and make what shift we can to secure our selves from being apprehended. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Loap, to run away; he loaped down the dancers, he ran down stairs. 3. a. To run with a long, bounding stride. Also with along, away. (Said chiefly of animals.) ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > go swiftly on foot [verb (intransitive)] > run > run with long strides lopea1825 a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Lope, to take long strides; particularly with long legs. 1848 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 64 27 The larger wolves..lope hungrily around. 1863 H. Kingsley Austin Elliot I. 78 He..laid his leaf-like ears back, drooped his tail,..and loped, or lurked in his Walk, which means, that he moved the two legs which were on the same side of him together. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake II. xv. 257 The hares and rabbits loped away, innumerable. 1891 Field 7 Mar. 331/1 The first fox..was seen loping over the uplands. 1893 Spectator 10 June 767 A regular Hindostanee carrier..will..lope along over a hundred miles in twenty-four hours. 1897 G. Bartram People of Clopton viii. 233 Carter walked at a great pace, and we had to lope now and then to keep up with him. 1899 Daily News 6 Nov. 5/4 A Boer pony..hardly knows how to gallop or trot, but goes loping along in a leisurely, monotonous way. b. causative. To make to run with a long, bounding stride. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > move or cause to move swiftly on foot [verb (transitive)] > make run with long strides lope1885 1885 T. Roosevelt Hunting Trips viii. 261 For seven or eight miles we loped our jaded horses along at a brisk pace. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.14..v.1483 |
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