Definition of Cope

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Definition of Cope

Cope

A covering for the head.

Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door.

An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, where it is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions.

An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.

The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam mold.

To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.

To pare the beak or talons of (a hawk).

To exchange or barter.

To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.

To enter into or maintain a hostile contest; to struggle; to combat; especially, to strive or contend on equal terms or with success; to match; to equal; -- usually followed by with.

To bargain for; to buy.

To make return for; to requite; to repay.

To match one's self against; to meet; to encounter.

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Cope Quotations

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.
Audrey Hepburn

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
Carl Jung

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.
Charlie Chaplin

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
Stephen King

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
Robin Williams

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.
Douglas Adams

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
Woodrow Wilson

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
George Santayana

One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.
Marshall McLuhan

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).
James Thurber

Cope Translations

cope in Norwegian is greie
cope in Spanish is capa pluvial

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