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Definition of 'rope'English
Alternative forms
* (all obsolete)
Noun
( wikipedia)
(uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
- Nylon 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.
* {{quote-book|2003|(Dennis Lehane)|Mystic River|page=138 citation
|passage=Jimmy began to scream and ropes of spit shot from his mouth.}}
(dated) A continuous stream.
* {{quote-book|1852|John Bourne|3= A Treatise on the Screw Propeller: With Various Suggestions of Improvement |page=38
|passage=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.(jump)
* {{quote-book|2001||editor=Nagendra Kr. Singh|chapter=Review of Metaphysical Teaching|Encyclopaedia of Jainism| citation
|passage=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
* twine, line, cord; see also
* (jump) rajju, infinitude
Derived terms
* jump rope
* know the ropes
* learn the ropes
* money for old rope
* on the ropes
* rope ladder
* Rope Monday
* rope tow
* rope-band
* rope-dancer
* rope-dancing
* rope-end
* ropefull
* rope-house
* rope-like
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* rope-maker
* ropemanship
* rope-over
* ropery
* rope-ripe
* rope's end
* rope-sick
* rope-tide
* ropewalk, rope-walk
* ropework, rope-work
* ropey, ropy
* rope-yard
* show one the ropes
* teach one the ropes
* skipping rope
* wire rope
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Verb
( rop)
To tie (something) with something.
- The robber roped the victims.
To throw a rope around (something).
- The cowboy roped the calf.
To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
* Shakespeare
- Let us not hang like roping icicles / Upon our houses' thatch.
Synonyms
* (to tie something) tie, bind, secure
* (throw a rope around) lasso
Derived terms
* ropable, ropeable
* rope-a-dope
* roped
( rel-mid)
* roper
* rope together
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