Used in a Sentence

trop

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for trop.

Editorial note

Si c'est encore trop rapide, redescendez simplement à 400 mots par minute pour votre prochain essai.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

Alternative form of trope (“cantillation pattern”). [(art, literature) Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature; a motif.]

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of trop gathered in one view.

noun

Alternative form of trope (“cantillation pattern”). [(art, literature) Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature; a motif.]

noun

(medicine, colloquial) Abbreviation of troponin. [(biochemistry, medicine, cardiology) A heterotrimeric regulatory protein complex found in the thin filaments of striated muscle fibers, including both skeletal and cardiac muscle, that controls calcium-mediated muscle contraction.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for trop.

noun

Alternative form of trope (“cantillation pattern”). [(art, literature) Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature; a motif.]

noun

(medicine, colloquial) Abbreviation of troponin. [(biochemistry, medicine, cardiology) A heterotrimeric regulatory protein complex found in the thin filaments of striated muscle fibers, including both skeletal and cardiac muscle, that controls calcium-mediated muscle contraction.]

Example sentences

1

Si c'est encore trop rapide, redescendez simplement à 400 mots par minute pour votre prochain essai.

2

When Johnson and the Trop finally agreed, he had whittled the house edge down to one-fourth of 1 percent, by his figuring.

3

They have the same right to watching a new movie with a tired trop — because to them, it’s not yet tired.

4

Wonder how they can avoid the trop while not censoring themselves out.

5

The RSS trop data shows there is a 1.2K/century trend.

6

I was one of the trop three students of my graduating high school class.

7

It's a classic journalist trop designed to get you to read their paper without putting too much weight on the actual content which is a paper thin, pun intended, PR fluff thing for The Society for Science.

8

As mentioned the bomb cyclone in PNW this year, but also the hurricane that started in the Pacific, whittled down to a trop depression in the gulf (crossing all that land inbetween!) and then spun up into a gnarly hurricane that made a beeline for florida (iirc?).

Quote examples

1

That's why we laugh at the "zoom -> 9 pixels -> enhance -> clear picture -> zoom ->.." trop in movies..

2

The definitions invoked by proponents of "living constitutionalism." The steel-man version of their premise is that judges should interpret the constitution "draw[s] its meaning from the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society." Trop v.

3

Fermat writes that he's chosen smallish values of N, "pour ne vous donner pas trop de peine," so he's obviously chosen these values precisely because they're fiendishly difficult, and that's no doubt why Bhaskara also chose 61 as an example, and that's adequate explanation for why the same value shows up in the two places.

Proper noun examples

1

If I go to Dockside Tropical Cafe's fb page, sure show me an ad for some trop-rock artist or Caribbean vacation.

2

Trop break that duopoly, we need rules for hardware manufacturers to store complete spécifications in a trusted public registry, with fines if the doc is incomplete, misleading, etc...

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use trop in a sentence?

Si c'est encore trop rapide, redescendez simplement à 400 mots par minute pour votre prochain essai.

What does trop mean?

Alternative form of trope (“cantillation pattern”). [(art, literature) Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature; a motif.]

What part of speech is trop?

trop is commonly used as noun.