A mark consisting of (in English) three periods, historically or more formally with spaces in between, before, and after them, " . . . ", or, more recently, a single character, "…", used to indicate that words have been omitted in a text or that they are missing or illegible, or (in mathematics) that a pattern continues (e.g., 1, ..., 4 means 1, 2, 3, 4).
The omission of a word or phrase that can be inferred from the context.
The omission of scenes in a film that do not advance the plot.
A cantillation pattern, or one of the marks that represents it.
Any of the ten arguments used in skepticism to refute dogmatism.
A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.
A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.
An addition (of dialogue, song, music, etc.) to a standard element of the liturgy, serving as an embellishment.
A particular instance of a property (such as the specific redness of a rose), as contrasted with a universal.
Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature, such as the ‘mad scientist’ of horror movies or the use of the phrase ‘once upon a time’ as an introduction to fairy tales; a motif.
A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique.
A tangent space meeting a quartic surface in a conic.
To turn into, coin, or create a new trope.
To use, or embellish something with, a trope.
To represent something figuratively or metaphorically, especially as a literary motif.
To think or write in terms of tropes.
To analyse a work in terms of its literary tropes.