tropic
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Late Latin tropicus (“of or pertaining to the solstice, as a noun, one of the tropics”), from Ancient Greek τροπικός (tropikós, “of or pertaining to a turn or change; or the solstice; or a trope or figure; tropic; tropical; etc.”), from τροπή (tropḗ, “turn; solstice; trope”).
Inflected forms:
form: tropics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trop.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: tropick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: Tropic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more tropic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tropic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: trop.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: tropick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: Tropic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Either of the two parallels of latitude 23°26′ north and south of the equator; the farthest points at which the sun can be directly overhead; the boundaries of the torrid zone or tropics.
pos: noun
examples: O conſider my caſe, moſt blisfull Queen, […] Diſpell thoſe Clouds which hover 'twixt my King and his higheſt Counſell, […] that my great Law-making Court be forced to turn no more to polemicall Committees, […] but that they may come again to the old Parliamentary Rode, To the path of their Predeceſſours, to conſult of means how to ſweep away thoſe Cobwebs that hang in the Courts of Juſtice, and to make the Laws run in their right Channell; to retrench exceſſive fees, and finde remedies for the future, that the poor Client be not ſo peeled by his Lawyer, and made to ſuffer by ſuch monſtrous delays, that one may go from one Tropick to the other, and croſſe the Equinoctiall twenty times, before his ſute be done; […]
For since on ev'ry Sea, on ev'ry Coast,
Your Men have been distress'd, your Navy tost,
Sev'n times the Sun has either Tropick view'd,
gloss: The component of tone or rhetoric in a sentence.
pos: noun
gloss: Of, or relating to the tropics; tropical.
pos: adj
gloss: Of, or relating to the tropics; tropical.
pos: adj
tags: rare
gloss: Having the quality of indirectly inducing a biological or chemical change in a system or substrate.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The binding of oxygen to hemoglobin is allosterically regulated by various tropic factors, such as BPG and acidity.
gloss: Pertaining to, involving, or of the nature of a trope or tropes.
pos: adj
examples: This process of tropic change, once identified in nostalgia poems, can be applied to a range of new and emerging genres in various periods. Identifying the tropes of nostalgia, in other words, allows us to appreciate the process[…]
Tropes may also interact with other tropes: a trope (for example, a metonymic association) may become an element in a different trope (for instance, a metaphor), and thus undergo a transformation of its tropic identity.
As these examples indicate, the functioning of ritual symbols as “pivots” for the projection of efficacy between frames involves the use of symbols as tropes. The tropic uses of symbols in ritual specify the aspects of their range of[…]
Related words: trope
-tropic
tropism
tropo-
Derived words: Afrotropic
Northern Tropic
Southern Tropic
tropicbird
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn
boreotropic
dual-tropic
extratropic
heterotropic
intertropic
intertropical
laeotropic
neotropic
nosotropic
semitropical
subtropic
subtropical
subtropics
tropic acid
tropical
tropic hormone
tropin
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