(art, literature) Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature; a motif.

(medieval Christianity) An addition (of dialogue, song, music, etc.) to a standard element of the liturgy, serving as an embellishment.

(rhetoric) A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.

(geometry) A noun "trope" represents a tangent space meeting a quartic surface in a conic in mathematical senses.

(music) A term used in music, specifically in early music, twelve-tone technique, and judaism, referring to a short cadence, a pair of complementary hexachords, or a cantillation pattern.

(philosophy) A term used in greek philosophy and metaphysics to refer to arguments used in skepticism to refute dogmatism and a particular instance of a property.

(transitive) To use, or embellish something with, a trope.

(transitive) To represent something figuratively or metaphorically, create new tropes, and analyze a work in terms of its literary tropes.

(intransitive) To think or write in terms of tropes.