• Rope

    Pronunciation

    • UK enPR: rōp, IPA: /rəʊp/
    • US enPR: rōp, IPA: /roÊŠp/
    • Rhymes: -əʊp

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    Origin

    From Old English rāp. Cognate with Albanian rrip ("belt,rope").

    Noun

    rope

    (countable and uncountable; plural ropes)
    1. (uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line. ropeNylon rope is usually stronger than similar rope made of plant fibers.
    2. (countable) An individual length of such material.The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes.
    3. A cohesive strand of something.
      • Jimmy began to scream and ropes of spit shot from his mouth.
    4. (dated) A continuous stream.
      • The principle of any such device should be to pull on the vessel by a rope of water passing in at the bow and out at the stern.
    5. (baseball) A hard line drive.He hit a rope past third and into the corner.
    6. (ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
    7. (computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
    8. (Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.rope
      • The central strip of the loka, the Middle World, represents its smallest area, being only one rope wide and one hundred thousand leagues high, ...
    9. (jewelry) A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.
    10. (nautical) Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
    11. (archaic) A unit of length equal to 20 feet.
    12. (slang) Flunitrazepam, also known as Rohypnol.
    13. (in the plural) The small intestines.the ropes of birds

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    Verb

    1. (transitive) To tie (something) with something.The robber roped the victims.
    2. (transitive) To throw a rope around (something).The cowboy roped the calf.
    3. (intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
      • ShakespeareLet us not hang like roping icicles
        Upon our houses' thatch.

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