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Substantiivi

1. (art, literature) Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature; a motif.
2. (medieval Christianity) An addition (of dialogue, song, music, etc.) to a standard element of the liturgy, serving as an embellishment.
3. (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.
4. (geometry) Mathematical senses.
5. A tangent space meeting a quartic surface in a conic.
6. (archaic) The reciprocal of a node on a surface.
7. (music) Musical senses.
8. A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.
9. A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique.
10. (Judaism) A cantillation pattern, or one of the marks that represents it.
11. (philosophy) Philosophical senses.
12. (Greek philosophy) Any of the ten arguments used in skepticism to refute dogmatism.
13. (metaphysics) A particular instance of a property (such as the specific redness of a rose), as contrasted with a universal.

Verbi

1. (transitive) To use, or embellish something with, a trope.
2. (transitive) Senses relating chiefly to art or literature.
3. To represent something figuratively or metaphorically, especially as a literary motif.
4. To turn into, coin, or create a new trope.
5. To analyse a work in terms of its literary tropes.
6. (intransitive) To think or write in terms of tropes.