rope
IPA: rˈoʊp
noun
- (uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
- (countable) An individual length of such material.
- A cohesive strand of something.
- (slang, vulgar) A shot of semen that a man releases during ejaculation.
- (dated) A continuous stream.
- (baseball) A hard line drive.
- (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.
- (military, uncountable) A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.
- (Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.
- (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) Rohypnol.
- (slang, usually in the plural) Semen being ejaculated.
- (with "the") Death by hanging.
- (in the plural) The small intestines.
verb
- (transitive) To tie (something) with rope.
- (transitive) To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).
- (intransitive) To climb by means of a rope or ropes.
- (intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
- (incel slang, intransitive) To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.
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Examples of "rope" in Sentences
- The rope was elongated.
- He was strung with the rope.
- He shortened the rope easily.
- The man tied the rope tightly.
- The people convolved the ropes.
- The burro must be on a lead rope.
- Take the rope instead of the cable.
- The garrote usually consist of a strong piece of rope or iron wire.
- Each ball has approximately 1 m of wire, chain or nonflammable rope attached.
- The tree holding the rope snaps and the three on the line fall into the water.
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