rope

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See also: ropě and ropę

English

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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 *h₁roypnós (“strap, band, rope”), from *h₁reyp- (“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

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  • Rhymes: -əʊp

Noun

rope (countable and uncountable, plural ropes)

Length of rope.
  1. (uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line. Template:jump
    Nylon rope is usually stronger than similar rope made of plant fibers.
  2. (countable) An individual length of such material.
    The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes.
  3. A cohesive strand of something.
    The duchess wore a rope of pearls to the soirée.
    • 2003, Dennis Lehane, Mystic River‎[1], →ISBN, page 138:
      Jimmy began to scream and ropes of spit shot from his mouth.
  4. (dated) A continuous stream.
  5. (baseball) A hard line drive.
    He hit a rope past third and into the corner.
  6. (ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
  7. (computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
  8. (Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.Template:jump
    • 2001, “Review of Metaphysical Teaching”, in Nagendra Kr. Singh, editor, Encyclopaedia of Jainism‎[2], →ISBN, page 7522:
      The central strip of the loka, the Middle World, represents its smallest area, being only one rope wide and one hundred thousand leagues high, […]
  9. (jewelry) A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.
  10. (nautical) Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
  11. (archaic) A unit of length equal to 20 feet.
  12. (slang) Flunitrazepam, also known as Rohypnol.
  13. (slang, vulgar) A shot of semen that a man releases during ejaculation.
  14. (in the plural) The small intestines.
    the ropes of birds

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Verb

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  1. (transitive) To tie (something) with rope.
    The robber roped the victims.
  2. (transitive) To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).
    The cowboy roped the calf.
  3. (intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
    • (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Let us not hang like roping icicles / Upon our houses' thatch.
  4. (slang, intransitive) To commit suicide.
    My life is a mess; I might as well rope.
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Further reading

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Finnish

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Noun

rope

  1. (gaming, slang) Abbreviation of roolipeli (“RPG (role-playing game)”).

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

rope (imperative rop, present tense roper, simple past ropte, past participle ropt)

  1. to shout

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References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

rope (imperative rop, present tense ropar or roper, simple past ropa or ropte, past participle ropa or ropt, present participle ropande)

  1. Alternative form of ropa
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