What's the difference between drunk and tope?

Drunk


Definition:

  • () of Drink
  • (p. p.) of Drink
  • (a.) Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated; drunken; -- never used attributively, but always predicatively; as, the man is drunk (not, a drunk man).
  • (a.) Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
  • (n.) A drunken condition; a spree.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
  • (2) The major part of water was drunk during feeding time.
  • (3) The leadership of 212 chapters of an organization called Mothers Against Drunk Driving was surveyed to obtain data on chapter emphasis, satisfaction, future involvement and perception of most effective countermeasures.
  • (4) We hope that the court of appeal in reaching its judgment understands that consent cannot happen when a woman is too drunk to consent.
  • (5) Big Red football parties had a reputation for being wildly drunk.
  • (6) "I would stand there and watch him every night, unless I was too drunk that I couldn't stand.
  • (7) A DWI conviction may also stimulate the drunk driver to seek treatment for alcoholism.
  • (8) Alcohol campaigns largely target younger women, yet the risk of breast cancer – which peaks in the 60-64 age group – increases by about 7% for every unit drunk per day.
  • (9) Tory toffs repelling undesirable immigrants, providing better schools, using welfare reform as a pathway to work, clearing vandals, yobs and drunks from the streets and standing up to our masters in Brussels would be very popular, and the word would soon be forgotten.
  • (10) But living in modern Britain feels like being one of a family of anxious, squabbling children whose parents have abandoned us to get drunk at the casino.
  • (11) There is a half-drunk glass of white wine abandoned on the coffee table at his Queensferry home - the Browns had friends around for dinner the previous night - and a stack of children's books and board games piled lopsidedly under a Christmas tree now shedding needles with abandon.
  • (12) No one would deny that Thomas drank too much or that he could be a troublesome drunk.
  • (13) Thirty-one males (17%) and 18 females (9%) reported getting drunk at least twice a month and having five or more drinks on each drinking occasion.
  • (14) Student days and getting drunk, our worst dates, how close we are to our parents, sausages, setting up Lindy Hop dance classes for gay people.
  • (15) "But I've never been drunk in my life," she says, to clarify).
  • (16) But Micheline Mwendike, 29, likened the concert to getting drunk to escape problems.
  • (17) My mum thought it was a bad idea, because the chefs were nuts, always drunk.
  • (18) "When beer is cheaper than water, it's just too easy for people to get drunk on cheap alcohol at home before they even set foot in the pub," the PM wrote in the foreword.
  • (19) Only recall of wine, the least frequently drunk beverage, was more highly correlated with current than with original consumption.
  • (20) Blood glucose remained unchanged during and after exercise when E was drunk.

Tope


Definition:

  • (n.) A moundlike Buddhist sepulcher, or memorial monument, often erected over a Buddhist relic.
  • (n.) A grove or clump of trees; as, a toddy tope.
  • (n.) A small shark or dogfish (Galeorhinus, / Galeus, galeus), native of Europe, but found also on the coasts of California and Tasmania; -- called also toper, oil shark, miller's dog, and penny dog.
  • (n.) The wren.
  • (v. i.) To drink hard or frequently; to drink strong or spiritous liquors to excess.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Chair of the judges Gus Casely-Hayford praised the story, saying: "Tope Folarin's 'Miracle' is another superb Caine prize winner – a delightful and beautifully-paced narrative, that is exquisitely observed and utterly compelling."
  • (2) Previous winners include Nigeria’s Tope Folarin in 2013 and Zimbabwe’s NoViolet Bulawayo in 2011.
  • (3) In 1987 the tope 1 percent of spenders accounted for 30 percent of health spending, up from 26 percent in 1970 and 29 percent in 1980.
  • (4) "Our doctors are worried about the danger it poses to their lives and the need to be reassured," said Tope Ojo, Lagos chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association.
  • (5) Nigerian writer Tope Folarin has scooped the Caine Prize for African Writing for his "utterly compelling" short story Miracle [PDF], set among Nigerian expatriates living in the US.