trope

1. Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature; a motif.

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2. 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.

   Tropus, Trope

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   language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

4. Mathematical senses.

   A tangent space meeting a quartic surface in a conic.

5. Musical senses.

   A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.

6. A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique.

7. (Judaism)A cantillation pattern, or one of the marks that represents it.

8. Philosophical senses.

   (Greek)Any of the ten arguments used in skepticism to refute dogmatism.

9. A particular instance of a property (such as the specific redness of a rose), as contrasted with a universal.

10. Mathematical senses.

    (archaic)The reciprocal of a node on a surface.

1. I spent hours reading about media tropes.

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2. Airships are a common trope in steampunk works.

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3. Chinese characters are made up of common tropes.

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4. Many of the tropes of modern antisemitism were invented by czarist authorities in Imperial Russia.

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