If you are able to cope with something, you are able to deal with it. If you can cope with waiting in long lines, you'll get the best seats. If you can cope with the stress, you will be excellent at defusing bombs.
A covering for the head.
Noun
brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall
Verb
come to terms or deal successfully with; "We got by on just a gallon of gas"; "They made do on half a loaf of bread every day"
n.
A covering for the head.
n.
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.
n.
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.
n.
An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the
lead mines in Derbyshire, England.
n.
The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam
mold.
v. i.
To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.
v. t.
To pare the beak or talons of (a hawk).
v. i.
To exchange or barter.
v. i.
To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.
v. i.
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.
v. t.
To bargain for; to buy.
v. t.
To make return for; to requite; to repay.
v. t.
To match one's self against; to meet; to encounter.
Cope
A hundred and sixty priests all in their copes.4.
Cope
Some bending down and coping to ward the earth.
Cope
Cope
Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man As e'er my conversation coped withal.3.
Host coped with host, dire was the din of war.
Their generals have not been able to cope with the troops of Athens.
Cope
three thousand ducats due unto the Jew, We freely cope your courteous pains withal.3.
I love to cope him in these sullen fits.
They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle, and struck him down.
A covering for the head.
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 bargain for; to buy.
Usage Examples
I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened.
You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.
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.
I think a basic level of fitness can help the body cope with all manner of incidents.
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.
It's unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes, then it is difficult to cope with. Or your mother. Or your father. They were strong and now they're like a baby - it's not so funny.
I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.
I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.
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Other Usage ExamplesHumor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.
I try to cope with everything through humor.
Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.
Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.
I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.
I have to think of the positive that's how I cope.
In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.