rope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rōp
ipa: /ɹəʊp/
enpr: rōp
ipa: /ɹoʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Forms: form: ropes
form: roap
form: roape
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, cord”), Dutch roop, reep (“rope, cord, ring, strip, bar”), German Low German Reep (“rope”), Swedish rep (“rope”), Danish reb (“rope”), Icelandic reipi (“rope”), Albanian rrip (“belt, rope”).
Senses: examples: text: Nylon rope is usually stronger than similar rope made of plant fibers.
synonyms: word: twine
word: line
word: cord
word: string
glosses: Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
examples: text: The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes.
glosses: An individual length of such material.
examples: text: The duchess wore a rope of pearls to the soirée.
text: Jimmy began to scream and ropes of spit shot from his mouth.
ref: 2003, Dennis Lehane, Mystic River, →ISBN, page 138:
glosses: A cohesive strand of something.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1852, John Bourne, A Treatise on the Screw Propeller: With Various Suggestions of Improvement, page 38:
glosses: A continuous stream.
examples: text: He hit a rope past third and into the corner.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A hard line drive.
topics: ceramics
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
synonyms: cord
glosses: A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.
examples: text: The central strip of the loka, the Middle World, represents its smallest area, being only one rope wide and one hundred thousand leagues high, […]
ref: 2001, “Review of Metaphysical Teaching”, in Nagendra Kr. Singh, editor, Encyclopaedia of Jainism, →ISBN, page 7522:
synonyms: rajju
infinitude
glosses: A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.
topics: jewelry
lifestyle
glosses: A necklace of at least one meter in length.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Cordage of at least one inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
glosses: A unit of length equal to twenty feet.
glosses: Rohypnol.
examples: text: shooting ropes
glosses: Semen being ejaculated.
examples: text: The murderer was sentenced to the rope.
glosses: Death by hanging.
qualifier: rhythmic gymnastics
glosses: An apparatus, currently with limited use by the senior contestants and not used in world-wide tournaments.
qualifier: rhythmic gymnastics
glosses: An apparatus, currently with limited use by the senior contestants and not used in world-wide tournaments.
An apparatus program with a rope.
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from rope (noun)
word: battle rope
sense: terms derived from rope (noun)
word: bell rope
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word: boatrope
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word: bolt rope
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word: bolt-rope
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word: breastrope
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word: bull rope
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word: bungee rope
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word: bungy rope
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word: buoy rope
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word: bushrope
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word: cable-laid rope
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word: catch rope
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word: catch-rope
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word: Chinese jump rope
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word: Chinese ropes
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word: coyote's rope
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word: crack-rope
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word: dance on a rope
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word: day of the rope
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word: dead man's rope
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word: dead-rope
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word: devil's rope
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word: dog rope
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word: drag-rope
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word: drag rope
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word: fast rope
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word: flat rope
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word: footrope
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word: frozen rope
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word: gift rope
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word: give one enough rope
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word: give someone enough rope
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word: give someone enough rope and they'll hang themself
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word: glass-rope
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word: goat rope
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word: goat-rope
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word: guest rope
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word: guide rope
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word: guy rope
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word: handrope
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word: hawser-laid rope
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word: headrope
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word: hide-rope
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word: hobble-rope
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word: hobblerope
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word: hobble rope
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word: Indian rope trick
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word: jump rope
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word: know the ropes
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word: laid rope
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word: learn the ropes
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word: leg rope
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word: Manila rope
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word: manrope
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word: mastrope
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word: money for old rope
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word: nope rope
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word: on the high rope
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word: on the high ropes
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word: on the ropes
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word: outrope
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word: picket rope
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word: piss up a rope
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word: prayer rope
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word: push rope
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word: raft-rope
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word: ridgerope
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word: ridge rope
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word: rope and choke
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word: ropeband
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word: rope-band
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word: rope bed
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word: rope bridge
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word: rope bunny
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word: rope burn
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word: rope clamp
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word: rope dance
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word: rope dancer
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word: rope-dancer
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word: rope-dancing
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word: ropedancing
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word: rope dart
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word: rope drilling
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word: rope-end
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word: ropefish
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word: ropefuel
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word: ropefull
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word: rope grass
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word: ropehead
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word: ropeheaded
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word: rope-house
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word: rope kiss
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word: rope ladder
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word: ropeless
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word: rope-like
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word: ropelike
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word: ropeline
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word: rope line
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word: ropeloft
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word: rope machine
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word: ropemaker
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word: rope-maker
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word: ropemaking
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word: ropeman
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word: ropemanship
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word: ropemate
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word: ropemaxx
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word: Rope Monday
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word: rope of sand
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word: rope out
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word: rope-over
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word: rope porter
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word: rope pulling
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word: rope pump
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word: rope railway
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word: rope-ripe
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word: rope runner
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word: ropery
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word: ropes course
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word: rope's end
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word: rope-sick
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word: ropesman
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word: rope stitch
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word: rope-tide
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word: rope tornado
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word: rope tow
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word: rope trick
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word: rope twist
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word: rope up
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word: ropewalker
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word: ropewalking
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word: ropewalk
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word: rope-walk
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word: rope wall
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word: rope-way
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word: ropeway
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word: rope winch
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word: ropeworker
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word: ropework
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word: rope-work
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word: rope worm
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word: rope-worthy
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word: rope-yard
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word: rope yarn
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word: ropey
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word: ropy
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word: ropish
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word: shoot a rope
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word: show one the ropes
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word: skipping rope
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word: skip rope
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word: slack-rope
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word: stirrup
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word: stretch rope
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word: teach one the ropes
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word: the end of one's rope
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word: tight rope
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word: tightrope
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word: tight-rope
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word: top rope
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word: top-rope
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word: towrope
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word: tow rope
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word: twopenny rope
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word: unrope
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word: wainrope
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word: wire rope
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word: yard-rope
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word: yard rope
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word: you'd complain if you were hung with a new rope