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Rope

//ɹoʊp// noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line. uncountable

    "Nylon rope is usually stronger than similar rope made of plant fibers."

  2. 2
    The small intestines. in-plural

    "the ropes of birds"

  3. 3
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  4. 4
    An individual length of such material. countable

    "The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes."

  5. 5
    a strong line wordnet
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  1. 6
    A cohesive strand of something. countable, uncountable

    "The duchess wore a rope of pearls to the soirée."

  2. 7
    A continuous stream. countable, dated, uncountable

    "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."

  3. 8
    A hard line drive. countable, uncountable

    "He hit a rope past third and into the corner."

  4. 9
    A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand. countable, uncountable
  5. 10
    A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character. countable, uncountable
  6. 11
    A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached. uncountable
  7. 12
    A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second. Jainism, countable, uncountable

    "The central strip of the loka, the Middle World, represents its smallest area, being only one rope wide and one hundred thousand leagues high, […]"

  8. 13
    A necklace of at least one meter in length. countable, uncountable
  9. 14
    Cordage of at least one inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage. countable, uncountable
  10. 15
    A unit of length equal to twenty feet. archaic, countable, uncountable
  11. 16
    Rohypnol. countable, slang, uncountable
  12. 17
    Semen being ejaculated. countable, plural-normally, slang, uncountable

    "shooting ropes"

  13. 18
    Death by hanging. countable, uncountable, with-definite-article

    "The murderer was sentenced to the rope."

  14. 19
    An apparatus, currently with limited use by the senior contestants and not used in world-wide tournaments. countable
  15. 20
    An apparatus, currently with limited use by the senior contestants and not used in world-wide tournaments.; An apparatus program with a rope. countable, metonymically, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To tie (something) with rope. transitive

    "The robber roped the victims."

  2. 2
    fasten with a rope wordnet
  3. 3
    To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something). transitive

    "The cowboy roped the calf."

  4. 4
    catch with a lasso wordnet
  5. 5
    To climb by means of a rope or ropes. intransitive

    "We roped down to the platform selected for the bivouac; set up our bags and brewed a reasonable meal."

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  1. 6
    To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread. intransitive

    "Let us not hang like roping icicles / Upon our houses' thatch."

  2. 7
    To pull or restrain (the horse one is riding) to prevent it from winning a race. transitive

    "Others, a shade more advanced, have been known to bribe a jockey to "hold," "rope" a horse, or a stableman to poison or stupefy him."

  3. 8
    To commit suicide, particularly by hanging. Internet, intransitive

    "My life is a mess; I might as well rope."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English rop, rope, from Old English rāp (“rope, cord, cable”), from Proto-West Germanic *raip, from Proto-Germanic *raipaz, *raipą (“rope, cord, band, ringlet”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁roypnós (“strap, band, rope”), from *h₁reyp- (“to peel off, tear; border, edge, strip”). Cognates Cognate with Scots rape, raip (“rope”), Saterland Frisian Roop (“rope”), West Frisian reap (“rope, cord”), Dutch roop, reep (“rope, cord, ring, strip, bar”), German Low German Reep (“rope”), Swedish rep (“rope”), Danish reb (“rope”), Icelandic reipi (“rope”), Albanian rrip (“belt, rope”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English ropen, rope (“to form ropes”), from rop (“rope”); see above.

Etymology 3

From Middle English rop (“gut, intestine”), from Old English rop, ropp; compare Middle Dutch rop, roppe (“fish guts”). The modern pronunciation results from phonological assimilation to Etymology 1.

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