The difference between Dope and Ill
When used as nouns, dope means any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface, whereas ill means trouble.
When used as adjectives, dope means amazing, whereas ill means evil.
Dope is also verb with the meaning: to affect with drugs.
Ill is also adverb with the meaning: not well.
check bellow for the other definitions of Dope and Ill
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Dope as a noun (uncountable):
Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
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Dope as a noun (uncountable):
An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.
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Dope as a noun (uncountable, aeronautics):
Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen, etc.
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Dope as a noun (uncountable, slang):
Any illicit or narcotic drug that produces euphoria or satisfies an addiction; particularly heroin.
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Dope as a noun (uncountable, slang):
Information, usually from an inside source, originally in horse racing and other sports.
Examples:
"What's the latest dope on the stock market?"
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Dope as a noun (uncountable, fireams):
Ballistic data on previously fired rounds, used to calculate the required hold over a target.
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Dope as a noun (countable, slang):
A stupid person.
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Dope as a noun (US, Ohio):
dessert topping
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Dope as a verb (transitive, slang):
To affect with drugs.
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Dope as a verb (transitive):
To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).
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Dope as a verb (transitive, electronics):
To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).
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Dope as a verb (slang):
To use drugs; especially, to use prohibited performance-enhancing drugs in sporting competitions.
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Dope as a verb (slang, transitive, dated):
To judge or guess; to predict the result of.
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Dope as an adjective (slang):
Amazing.
Examples:
"That party was dope!"
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Ill as an adjective (obsolete):
Evil; wicked (of people).
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Ill as an adjective (archaic):
Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.
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Ill as an adjective:
Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.
Examples:
"He suffered from ill treatment."
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Ill as an adjective:
Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
Examples:
"'ill manners; ill will"
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Ill as an adjective:
Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
Examples:
"I've been ill with the flu for the past few days."
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Ill as an adjective:
Having an urge to vomit.
Examples:
"Seeing those pictures made me ill."
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Ill as an adjective (hip-hop slang):
Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.
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Ill as an adjective (slang):
Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
Examples:
"That band was ill."
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Ill as an adverb:
Not well; imperfectly, badly; hardly.
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Ill as a noun (often [[pluralize]]d):
Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.
Examples:
"Music won't solve all the world's ills, but it can make them easier to bear."
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Ill as a noun:
Harm or injury.
Examples:
"I wouldn't want you to do me ill."
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Ill as a noun:
Evil; moral wrongfulness.
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Ill as a noun:
A physical ailment; an illness.
Examples:
"I am incapacitated by rheumatism and other ills."
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Ill as a noun (US, slang):
PCP, phencyclidine.