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# lope

«lope» in Mova's school dictionary: **to run with long, easy, springing steps** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (lopes, loped, loping)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To lope is to run with long, easy, springing steps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lope/#m1)

2) (in tales, dialect) To lope off means to go away at an easy, quick pace. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lope/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in animal tales, a creature lopes off after food and comes back quickly

### examples

- The wolf loped across the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lope/#x1)
- The fox loped off into the woods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lope/#x2)
- The dog loped home after the ball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lope/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lope» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lope/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.