rope
Pronunciation: /ɹəʊp/
The English word “rope” has 20 meanings listed here.
noun
- Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
- An individual length of such material.
- A cohesive strand of something.
- A continuous stream.
- A hard line drive.
- A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
- A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
- A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.
- A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.
- A necklace of at least one meter in length.
- Cordage of at least one inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
- A unit of length equal to twenty feet.
- Rohypnol.
- Semen being ejaculated.
- Death by hanging.
- An apparatus, currently with limited use by the senior contestants and not used in world-wide tournaments.
- An apparatus program with a rope.
verb
Etymology
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,…
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