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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