Bishop vs. Cope: What's the Difference?

A high-ranking Christian cleric, in modern churches usually in charge of a diocese and in some churches regarded as having received the highest ordination in unbroken succession from the apostles.

To contend or strive, especially on even terms or with success

Abbr. B(Games) A usually miter-shaped chess piece that can move diagonally across any number of unoccupied spaces.

To contend with difficulties and act to overcome them

Mulled port spiced with oranges, sugar, and cloves.

To cover or dress in a cope.

(Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.

To provide with coping

A similar official or chief priest in another religion.

A long ecclesiastical vestment worn over an alb or surplice.

(obsolete) The holder of the Greek or Roman position of episcopus, supervisor over the public dole of grain, etc.

A covering resembling a cloak or mantle.

(obsolete) Any watchman, inspector, or overlooker.

A coping.

A chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.

(intransitive) To deal effectively with something, especially if difficult.

(chess) The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.

To cut and form a mitred joint in wood or metal.

Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds.

(falconry) To clip the beak or talons of a bird.

(dialectal) A ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae.

(transitive) To cover (a joint or structure) with coping.

A flowering plant of the genus Bifora.

(intransitive) To form a cope or arch; to arch or bend; to bow.

A sweet drink made from wine, usually with oranges, lemons, and sugar; mulled and spiced port.

(obsolete) To bargain for; to buy.

A bustle.

(obsolete) To exchange or barter.

A children's smock or pinafore.

(obsolete) To make return for; to requite; to repay.

(Christianity) To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.

(obsolete) To match oneself against; to meet; to encounter.

To confirm (in its other senses).

(obsolete) To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.

(Christianity) To make a bishop.

To tie or sew up the mouth of a ferret used for hunting rabbits.

To provide with bishops.

To silence or prevent from speaking.

To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).

(slang) A coping mechanism or self-delusion one clings to in order to endure the hopelessness or despair of existence.

To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.

A long, loose cloak worn by a priest, deacon, or bishop when presiding over a ceremony other than the Mass.

To murder by drowning.

Any covering such as a canopy or a mantle.

A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director.

(literary) The vault or canopy of the skies, heavens etc.

In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see.

(construction) A covering piece on top of a wall exposed to the weather, usually made of metal, masonry, or stone, and sloped to carry off water.

In the Methodist Episcopal and some other churches, one of the highest church officers or superintendents.

(foundry) The top part of a sand casting mold.

A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; - formerly called archer.

An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.

A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar.

A covering for the head.

An old name for a woman's bustle.

Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door.

To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor.

An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, where it is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions.

To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to bishop an old horse or his teeth.

An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.

A clergyman having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve apostles of Christ

The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam mold.

Port wine mulled with oranges and cloves

To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.

(chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color

To pare the beak or talons of (a hawk).

To exchange or barter.

To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.

To enter into or maintain a hostile contest; to struggle; to combat; especially, to strive or contend on equal terms or with success; to match; to equal; - usually followed by with.

To bargain for; to buy.

To make return for; to requite; to repay.

To match one's self against; to meet; to encounter.

Brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall

Come to terms or deal successfully with;