rope
See also: ropę
English
Alternative forms
- roap, roape (all obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English rope, rape, from Old English rāp (“rope, cord, cable”), from Proto-Germanic *raipaz, *raipą (“rope, cord, band, ringlet”), from Proto-Indo-European *roypnós (“strap, band, rope”), from *reyp- (“to peel off, tear; border, edge, strip”). 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”), Icelandic reipi (“rope”), Albanian rrip (“belt, rope”).
Pronunciation
Noun
rope (countable and uncountable, plural ropes)
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Length of rope.
- (uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line. syn. transl.
- 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.
- The duchess wore a rope of pearls to the soirée.
- 2003, Dennis Lehane, Mystic River, →ISBN, page 138:
- Jimmy began to scream and ropes of spit shot from his mouth.
- (dated) A continuous stream.
- 1852, John Bourne, A Treatise on the Screw Propeller: With Various Suggestions of Improvement, page 38:
- 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.
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- (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. syn.
- (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.
- (slang, vulgar) A shot of semen that a man releases during ejaculation.
- (in the plural) The small intestines.
- the ropes of birds
Synonyms
- (thick string def. transl.): twine, line, cord; see also Thesaurus:string
- (unit of cosmic distance def.): rajju, infinitude
Derived terms
terms derived from rope (noun)
- dog rope
- give one enough rope
- jump rope
- know the ropes
- learn the ropes
- money for old rope
- on the ropes
- picket rope
- rope ladder
- Rope Monday
- rope tow
- rope-band
- rope-dancer
- rope-dancing
- rope-end
- ropefull
- rope-house
- rope-like
- 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
Translations
thick, strong string
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a length of this string
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Verb
rope (third-person singular simple present ropes, present participle roping, simple past and past participle roped)
- (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.
- Shakespeare
- Let us not hang like roping icicles / Upon our houses' thatch.
- Shakespeare
- (slang) To commit suicide.
- My life is a mess, I might as well rope.
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Derived terms
Further reading
Rope on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Rope (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Finnish
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Norwegian Bokmål
Derived terms
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