Rope
Pronunciation
- UK enPR: rÅp, IPA: /rəʊp/
- US enPR: rÅp, IPA: /roÊŠp/
- Rhymes: -əʊp
Origin
From Old English rÄp. Cognate with Albanian rrip ("belt,rope").
Noun
rope
(countable and uncountable; plural ropes)- (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.
- (countable) An individual length of such material.The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes.
- A cohesive strand of something.
- Jimmy began to scream and ropes of spit shot from his mouth.
- (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.
- (baseball) A hard line drive.He hit a rope past third and into the corner.
- (ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
- (computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
- (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, ...
- (jewelry) A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.
- (nautical) Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
- (archaic) A unit of length equal to 20 feet.
- (slang) Flunitrazepam, also known as Rohypnol.
- (in the plural) The small intestines.the ropes of birds
Synonyms
- rope twine, line, cord; see also
- rope rajju, infinitude
Derived terms
Full definition of rope
Verb
- (transitive) To tie (something) with something.The robber roped the victims.
- (transitive) To throw a rope around (something).The cowboy roped the calf.
- (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.