What's the difference between trompe and trope?

Trompe


Definition:

  • (n.) A trumpet; a trump.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tromp made investigations of a weather effect on erythrocyte sedimentation rates (ESR) of human blood by routine checks of the blood of donor groups in Leiden from 1955 to 1985.
  • (2) This week, Victoria was chatting backstage about the "huge juggling act" of working motherhood, and singing the praises of her trompe l'oeil skirt-and-shirt dresses: "It's great to have something that you can just stand in, zip up and go."
  • (3) With co-founder Kim Deal having left the band last year, the new album was created by Black Francis, Joey Santiago and David Lovering, with help from long-time producer Gil Norton, who worked on Doolittle, Bossanova and Trompe le Monde.
  • (4) In contrast, no aggregation of TROMP was present in treponemes incubated in normal rabbit serum for 16 h or in treponemes incubated in IRS for 2 h. These findings suggest that the rate of C activation leading to in vitro treponemicidal activity is limited by the time required for aggregation of antibody-bound TROMP molecules.
  • (5) An influence of the weather on ESR was also found, but this seems to be more complicated than Tromp supposed.
  • (6) Playing the stricken Ron Woodruff, in Dallas Buyers Club , McConaughey is reptilian, feverish and emaciated, containing just the element of trompe l’oeil the Academy has learned to consider “acting”.
  • (7) The Pixies have confirmed details of their first studio album since 1991's Trompe le Monde.
  • (8) My favourites are a trompe l'oeil elephant on a rock and a giant spindly woman holding a waterfall.
  • (9) Field and laboratory studies established the development time of all the phases of Oedemagena tarandi and Cephenemyia trompe in different climatic zones of their habitat.
  • (10) Fruchtman got round this by half-unbricking the walls of the court and hiding the cameras inside, then employing an ingenious trompe-l’oeil system involving reflective white paint and chicken wire.
  • (11) T. pallidum rare outer membrane protein (TROMP) molecules were shown in freeze-fracture electron micrographs to be consistently aggregated following a 16-h incubation of treponemes in IRS.
  • (12) The first giant trick is Andrea Pozzo 's trompe l'oeil ceiling fresco which uses foreshortening to create an astoundingly realistic vision of the founder of the Society of Jesus soaring towards paradise to be welcomed by Christ (no, the Jesuits never were modest).
  • (13) The marines were surrounded by armed men and captured on Sunday after landing near Sirte in a Lynx helicopter that was on board a navy ship, HMS Tromp, which is anchored off the Libyan coast to help evacuations, Dutch defence ministry spokesman Otte Beeksma said.
  • (14) Photograph: Aitken Jolly for the Observer "Katrantzou can do 'concept'," said Vogue 's Sarah Mower, reviewing her latest collection admiringly, one that veered away from the trompe l'oeil that she's become quietly famous for, and towards prints inspired by fields of tulips and crushed-car sculptures.
  • (15) Chem., in press] and T. brucei 427 [Hensgens, L.A.M., Brackenhoff, J., De Vries, B.F., Sloof, P., Tromp, M.C., Van Boom, J.H.
  • (16) On one artists created a witty trompe l'oeil of a suburban street apparently beyond the wall , an optimistic reminder of what the roads used to be like.
  • (17) "This smacks of over-zealous policemen with little cultural understanding, tromping about the Tate in their hobnail boots, to the cultural deficit of society and this exhibition," Stephens told the Art Newspaper.
  • (18) The phenological and ecological features of O. tarandi and C. trompe in the aforesaid zones were identified which are the basis for scientifically grounded prophylactic measures.

Trope


Definition:

  • (n.) The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech.
  • (n.) The word or expression so used.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For further education, this would be my priority: a substantial increase in funding and an end to tinkering with the form of qualifications and bland repetition of the “parity of esteem” trope.
  • (2) Arguing for a new nation state, the white paper understands that the old tropes of nationhood will no longer do, though until recently they sustained the anglophobic tendency of everyday nationalism, though until recently they sustained the anglophobic tendency of everyday nationalism.
  • (3) Ihave never really liked the liberal-left trope of Britain's "progressive majority", lately talked up by people campaigning for AV .
  • (4) Ivens's apology was issued after a meeting with Jewish community organisations including the Board of the Deputies of British Jews, which had complained to the Press Complaints Commission on Sunday, describing the cartoon as "appalling" and "all the more disgusting" for being published on Holocaust Memorial Day, "given the similar tropes levelled against Jews by the Nazis".
  • (5) As the report explains, researchers have long pointed to a widely believed cultural script of what constitutes a “real” rape – the trope of the lone lady being attacked at night as she made her way home through dark alleys.
  • (6) Purnell has long argued it is time to discard the old tropes of Brownite and Blairite.
  • (7) Melgaard pays poor lip service to these racist tropes, arguing that "racism is a form of sexuality.
  • (8) By focusing on Spock and Kirk as novices finding their footing, and putting their gut-vs-logic dynamic at the heart of the film, Abrams gives non-followers plenty to hang on to, but also pays homage to familiar Trek tropes: Bones says: "I'm a doctor, not a physicist!
  • (9) Her main project is new girl Tai (the late Brittany Murphy) who arrives at school as a clumsy, unconfident "ugly duckling" ripe for making over – allowing the film to indulge in that wonderful 80s teen movie trope: the dressing up montage.
  • (10) Instead, we returned to the old political tropes: a prime minister outside Downing street, backbenchers grousing on rolling news channels, financial experts delighted outside City buildings and Nigel Farage on College Green, standing outside the palace he wants to get in.
  • (11) You know you are desperate for ratings when you are willing to violate the law to push a story about two pages of tax returns from over a decade ago,” it said in a statement emailed to journalists with unusual zeal and which also repeated the Trump trope of “the dishonest media”.
  • (12) All these silly tropes appear in the first episode of My Transsexual Summer, Channel 4's new primetime reality doc .
  • (13) It takes the usual prison TV tropes of bent screws, lesbian affairs, claustrophobic pettiness and racial divides, and makes them seem fresh, skewing our perspectives in unexpected ways.
  • (14) Trump and his appeal embody certain universal tropes about bullying, humiliation and comedy.
  • (15) And the presence of the miniature handwritten note on textured paper is so Andersonesque as to make this essentially a trope magnified by a trope.
  • (16) It’s a trope that often plays an important part in the narrative of zombie stories.
  • (17) Recent months have seen a number of white, A-list pop artists such as Lily Allen, Iggy Azalea and Taylor Swift come under fire for appropriating black music tropes and perpetuating damaging stereotypes.
  • (18) It is a favoured trope of Nigel Farage and his fellow-travellers that the “Westminster elite” doesn’t want to talk about immigration.
  • (19) Is there a danger that – using the now-standard tropes of a strong sense of place, a dysfunctional detective, a haunting soundtrack and brutal crimes – the series will be seen as just another exercise in noir?
  • (20) No doubt it will soon make a comeback, but for now the “reform is stuck” trope has descended into an unedifying and largely evidence-free “debate” over penalty rates .

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