Dope - English meaning

noun

Guidance or recommendations offered with regard to prudent future action.

Usage examples:

My advice is to see your doctor

noun

An opinion that someone offers you about what you should do or how you should act in a particular situation

Usage examples:

I need some advice on which computer to buy., give someone advice steven gave me some good advice.,…

verb

Administer an anaesthetic to (a person or animal), especially so as to induce a loss of consciousness.

Usage examples:

I was called to casualty to anaesthetize a patient

verb

To give anaesthetic (= a substance that makes you unable to feel pain) to a person or animal

Usage examples:

My doctor said i will not need to be anaesthetized during the procedure., making sure the patient i…

verb

Make (someone) unable to think clearly.

Usage examples:

The logic used to arrive at this conclusion befuddles me

verb

To confuse someone

Usage examples:

Federer has a wide repertoire of clever shots that befuddle even the best of his opponents.

noun

A stupid person.

Usage examples:

And then the stupid blockhead called jessie something i never want to hear repeated again.

noun

A stupid person

noun

A japanese buddhist festival held annually in august to honour the dead.

Usage examples:

I think that o-bon - the ‘festival of the dead,’ upcoming in august - can be special this year.

noun

A ridiculous but amusing person; a clown.

Usage examples:

I am usually quite controlled, but i was irritated that i was forced to spend my time with these sy…

noun

A person who does silly things, sometimes intentionally, that make other people laugh

Usage examples:

He was not the buffoon that people said he was.

noun

A tall plant with a stiff upright stem, divided serrated leaves, and glandular hairs. it is used to produce hemp fibre and as a drug.

Usage examples:

They believe the factory had grown at least one full crop of cannabis plants.

noun

The hemp plant, whose leaves and flowers are used to make marijuana

noun

A foolish or easily deceived person.

Usage examples:

I was left feeling a bit of a chump

noun

A foolish or stupid person

Usage examples:

What a chump he was to quit his job.

noun

A lump of earth or clay.

Usage examples:

Frost is essential for breaking up clods into manageable sizes

noun

Advice, especially that given formally.

Usage examples:

With wise counsel a couple can buy a home that will be appreciating in value

verb

Give advice to (someone).

Usage examples:

Careers officers should counsel young people in making their career decisions

verb

Something that provides direction or advice

noun

A stupid person (used as a general term of abuse).

noun

An offensive word for a person who is considered to be very stupid or unpleasant

noun

Facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis.

Usage examples:

There is very little data available

noun

A piece of information.

Usage examples:

The fact is a datum worth taking into account

noun

Information, especially facts or numbers, collected to be examined and considered and used to help decision-making, or information in an electronic form that can be stored and used by a computer

Usage examples:

The data was/were collected by various researchers., now the data is/are being transferred from mag…

noun

An individual fact or item.

Usage examples:

We shall consider every detail of the bill

verb

Give full information about.

Usage examples:

The report details proposals to improve public transport

phrase

Information about someone or something

Usage examples:

A police officer took down the details of what happened., uk can i have your details (= name and ad…

noun

A stupid or silly person.

Usage examples:

This is what causes otherwise innocent young children to grow up into a population of stupid dimwits!

noun

A stupid person

Usage examples:

I've completely forgotten what i came in here for - i'm such a dimwit!, look where you're going, di…

noun

A course along which someone or something moves.

Usage examples:

She set off in the opposite direction

noun

The position toward which someone or something moves or faces

Usage examples:

Cars were facing every direction after slamming into each other on the icy road., i glanced in her …

verb

(of a disease, injury, or accident) limit (someone) in their movements, senses, or activities.

Usage examples:

It's an injury that could disable somebody for life

verb

To make something or someone unable to act in the correct or usual way

Usage examples:

Thieves disabled the museum’s alarm system.

verb

To turn off a part of a computer system, or stop it from working in the normal way

Usage examples:

To disable a program or device, right-click its listing under the appropriate category and choose '…

noun

Material that provides official information or evidence or that serves as a record.

Usage examples:

You will have to complete the relevant documentation

noun

Official papers, or written material that provides proof of something

noun

Official or legal documents that are needed in order to prove something

Usage examples:

Provide/produce documentation many lenders are now requiring borrowers to provide documentation of …

noun

A stupid person.

Usage examples:

It's foolish to complain about uninteresting times, especially when one of your favourite curses is…

noun

A medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body.

Usage examples:

A new drug aimed at sufferers from parkinson's disease

verb

Administer a drug to (someone) in order to induce stupor or insensibility.

Usage examples:

They were drugged to keep them quiet

verb

A substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic

noun

A medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body.

Usage examples:

A new drug aimed at sufferers from parkinson's disease

verb

Administer a drug to (someone) in order to induce stupor or insensibility.

Usage examples:

They were drugged to keep them quiet

noun

Any chemical that is used as a medicine

Usage examples:

Over-the-counter/prescription drugs, he couldn’t talk to us because he had been drugged.

noun

A slow or stupid person.

Usage examples:

He was caricatured as a dupe and a dullard

noun

A stupid person

noun

A model or replica of a human being.

Usage examples:

A waxwork dummy

verb

(chiefly in rugby and soccer) feign a pass or kick in order to deceive an opponent.

Usage examples:

Blanco dummied past a static defence

noun

A person who is slow at learning; a stupid person.

Usage examples:

He was baffled by arithmetic and they called him a dunce at school

noun

A person who is slow to learn or stupid, especially at school

noun

The action of enlightening or the state of being enlightened.

Usage examples:

Robbie looked to me for enlightenment

noun

The state of understanding something

Usage examples:

Meditation helps me achieve enlightenment and serenity.

noun

A thing that is known or proved to be true.

Usage examples:

He ignores some historical and economic facts

noun

A number, especially one which forms part of official statistics or relates to the financial performance of a company.

Usage examples:

The trade figures

verb

Have a significant part or role in a situation or process.

Usage examples:

The issue of nuclear policy figured prominently in the talks

noun

A number or an amount

Usage examples:

The collection was valued at $20 million, a figure that might cover the cost of having artists recr…

noun

A person who acts unwisely or imprudently; a silly person.

Usage examples:

I felt a bit of a fool

verb

Trick or deceive (someone); dupe.

Usage examples:

He fooled nightclub managers into believing he was a successful businessman

adjective

Foolish; silly.

Usage examples:

That damn fool waiter

noun

A silly, foolish, or eccentric person.

noun

Cheap wine, especially when sold in large cartons.

Usage examples:

We sat in the kitchen drinking the rest of the goon

noun

Advice or information aimed at resolving a problem or difficulty, especially as given by someone in authority.

Usage examples:

He looked to his father for inspiration and guidance

noun

Help and advice about how to do something or about how to deal with problems

Usage examples:

She never got any guidance when she needed it., the school district needs another guidance counselo…

noun

Help and advice about how to do something or to deal with problems

Usage examples:

Give/offer/provide guidance (to sb) the website offers guidance to employers on employment law., gu…

noun

A foolish or stupid person.

Usage examples:

Worst of all were the halfwits in the background, guffawing at every pathetic gag

noun

A highly addictive analgesic drug derived from morphine, often used illicitly as a narcotic producing euphoria.

Usage examples:

Any person trying heroin or any addictive drug for the first time knows that it can hook you.

noun

A stupid person.

Usage examples:

I feel like an idiot who swallowed every lie i was told

noun

A foolish person, esp. someone who has done something stupid

Usage examples:

I felt like an idiot., whose idiotic idea was it to go camping?

noun

An ignorant or stupid person.

Usage examples:

Assume that your examiner is an ignoramus and explain everything to him

noun

A person who knows nothing

Usage examples:

I'm a complete ignoramus where computers are concerned.

noun

A stupid person.

Usage examples:

No matter what you call the mentally deficient, that term will come to be an insult when applied to…

adjective

Stupid; idiotic.

Usage examples:

Try not to make imbecile remarks

noun

A stupid person

verb

Prevent from functioning in a normal way.

Usage examples:

He was incapacitated by a heart attack

verb

To remove someone’s ability to do something

Usage examples:

The accident incapacitated me for seven months., an incapacitating illness, the novel tells the sto…

verb

Make (someone) drunk; intoxicate.

Usage examples:

It is a rum-based drink designed more to inebriate the masses than to please the palate

noun

A drunkard.

Usage examples:

He was marked down as an inebriate

adjective

Drunk; intoxicated.

Usage examples:

He had been known to get hopelessly inebriate

noun

Facts provided or learned about something or someone.

Usage examples:

A vital piece of information

noun

News, facts, or knowledge

Usage examples:

An important piece of information, can you give us some information on tours to alaska?, informatio…

noun

Facts or details about a person, company, product, etc.

Usage examples:

Gather/get/obtain information can you tell me where i can obtain further information?, ask for/requ…

noun

A direction or order.

Usage examples:

He issued instructions to the sheriff

noun

The act of teaching someone how to do something

Usage examples:

The course gives you basic instruction in car maintenance and repairs., [ + to infinitive ] the gen…

noun

Written advice and information about how to do or use something

Usage examples:

Please read the instructions carefully., follow the instructions given below to activate your card.…

noun

The ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.

Usage examples:

An eminent man of great intelligence

noun

The ability to understand and learn well, and to form judgments and opinions based on reason

Usage examples:

He’s a child of normal intelligence but he’s emotionally immature., foreign intelligence

noun

The ability to learn and understand things quickly and easily

Usage examples:

Her high intelligence, ability and drive were evident from the start., people questioned the intell…

verb

(of alcoholic drink or a drug) cause (someone) to lose control of their faculties or behaviour.

Usage examples:

We don't allow people into sessions if they are intoxicated by alcohol or drugs

verb

(of alcohol or another drug) to make someone lose some control of their actions or behaviour

Usage examples:

The plant has the power to heal or intoxicate., it took surprisingly little drink to intoxicate him…

noun

A stupid person.

Usage examples:

First, you had every right to break up with me because i was a complete jackass and a moron and you…

noun

A silly, stupid person

Usage examples:

Why is russ behaving like such a jackass?

noun

Facts, information, and skills acquired through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject.

Usage examples:

A thirst for knowledge

noun

Awareness, understanding, or information that has been obtained by experience or study, and that is either in a person’s mind or possessed by people generally

Usage examples:

How will we use our increasing scientific knowledge?, a lack of knowledge on the part of teachers i…

noun

Skill in, understanding of, or information about something, which a person gets by experience or study

Usage examples:

Acquire/gain/have knowledge, possess/lack knowledge, people working in stores need better product k…

noun

A silly or foolish person.

Usage examples:

If only she weren't such a lovesick loon

noun

A large diving waterbird with a sleek black or grey head, a straight pointed bill, and short legs set far back under the body; a diver.

Usage examples:

The first, innocuous shower stroked the lake's surface but, when the wind came up, the loons began …

verb

Act in a foolish or desultory way.

Usage examples:

He decided to loon around london

noun

The matter from which a thing is or can be made.

Usage examples:

Goats can eat more or less any plant material

adjective

Denoting or consisting of physical objects rather than the mind or spirit.

Usage examples:

The material world

noun

A type of physical thing, such as wood, stone, or plastic, having qualities that allow it to be used to make other things

Usage examples:

A hard/soft material, the sculpture was made of various materials, including steel, copper wire, an…

noun

A stupid person.

Usage examples:

We can't let these thoughtless morons get away with mindless vandalism every weekend

noun

A stupid person

noun

A very stupid person

Usage examples:

Some moron smashed into the back of my car yesterday., [ as form of address ] you moron!

noun

A drug or other substance that affects mood or behaviour and is consumed for non-medical purposes, especially one sold illegally.

Usage examples:

Cultivation of a plant used to make a popular local narcotic

adjective

Relating to or denoting narcotics or illegal drugs.

Usage examples:

Consumption of narcotic substances

verb

Affect with or as if with a narcotic drug.

Usage examples:

They wanted to narcotize you so you wouldn't be sensitive to them

noun

Newly received or noteworthy information, especially about recent events.

Usage examples:

I've got some good news for you

noun

Information or reports about recent events

Usage examples:

That's the best (piece of) news i've heard for a long time!, we've had no news of them since they l…

noun

A television or radio programme consisting of reports about recent events

Usage examples:

Was there anything interesting on the news tonight?, i saw it on the 6 o'clock news., uk i usually …

noun

A foolish or stupid person.

Usage examples:

And, as a reader recently suggested, it would allow movie watchers to gang up on the nincompoops wh…

noun

A foolish or stupid person

noun

A foolish and weak person.

Usage examples:

Except for a scant few, the characters in st. elmo's fire are all either weasels, deceptive clods o…

noun

A foolish person

noun

A silly or foolish person (often as a general term of abuse).

Usage examples:

I want nothing to do with that bunch of nitwits!

noun

A foolish or stupid person

verb

Try to influence or thwart by underhand or unfair methods.

Usage examples:

An attempt to nobble the jury

verb

To make something fail, especially to make a horse in a race fail by giving it drugs

Usage examples:

The jury who convicted him were suspected of being nobbled., he nobbled her in the corridor to sign…

noun

The fact of observing or paying attention to something.

Usage examples:

Their silence did not escape my notice

verb

Become aware of.

Usage examples:

He noticed the youths behaving suspiciously

verb

To see or become conscious of something or someone

Usage examples:

I noticed a crack in the ceiling., mary waved at the man but he didn't seem to notice., [ + (that) …

noun

A detail.

Usage examples:

He is wrong in every particular

adjective

Used to single out an individual member of a specified group or class.

Usage examples:

The action seems to discriminate against a particular group of companies

adjective

Especially great or intense.

Usage examples:

When handling or checking cash the cashier should exercise particular care

adjective

Calm, dignified, and unhurried.

Usage examples:

In the old days, business was carried on at a rather more sedate pace

verb

Calm (someone) or make them sleep by administering a sedative drug.

Usage examples:

She was heavily sedated

adjective

Calm and controlled, and often traditional in habit or manner

Usage examples:

She preferred standard ballads and sedate pop tunes to rock music.

noun

A foolish or gullible person.

Usage examples:

Stop grinning at me like a simpleton

noun

A person without the usual ability to use reason and understand

noun

A fact or piece of data obtained from a study of a large quantity of numerical data.

Usage examples:

The statistics show that the crime rate has increased

plural noun

The practice or science of collecting and analysing numerical data in large quantities, especially for the purpose of inferring proportions in a whole from those in a representative sample.

Usage examples:

Standard error is a mathematical tool used in statistics to measure variability

plural noun

A collection of numerical facts or measurements, as about people, business conditions, or weather

Usage examples:

The statistics show that, in general, women live longer than men., there is little statistical evid…

verb

Make (someone) unable to think or feel properly.

Usage examples:

The offence of administering drugs to a woman with intent to stupefy her

verb

To tire or bore someone so much that the person cannot think or do anything

Usage examples:

His classes totally stupefied me., he was stupefied to learn that he was fired.

verb

Make or become weaker in power, resolve, or physical strength.

Usage examples:

Fault lines had weakened and shattered the rocks

verb

To make or become weak or weaker

Usage examples:

[ i ] the country’s economy continues to weaken., [ t ] long exposure to vibration can weaken aircr…

verb

To become or make something or someone become less powerful, successful, effective, etc.

Usage examples:

A series of scandals weakened investor confidence., the plan has divided the country and weakened t…

noun

A single distinct meaningful element of speech or writing, used with others (or sometimes alone) to form a sentence and typically shown with a space on either side when written or printed.

Usage examples:

I don't like the word ‘unofficial’

verb

Express (something spoken or written) in particular words.

Usage examples:

He words his request in a particularly ironic way

exclamation

Used to express agreement or affirmation.

Usage examples:

Word, that's a good record, man