rope
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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”), German Reif (“ring, hoop”), Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish rep (“rope”), Faroese and Norwegian Nynorsk reip (“rope”), Danish reb (“rope”), Icelandic reipi (“rope”), Albanian rrip (“belt, rope”).
Inflected forms:
form: ropes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: roap
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: roape
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: ropes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: roping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: roped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: roped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Nylon rope is usually stronger than similar rope made of plant fibers.
gloss: An individual length of such material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes.
All at once, let’s heave on the rope!
gloss: A cohesive strand of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The duchess wore a rope of pearls to the soirée.
Jimmy began to scream and ropes of spit shot from his mouth.
gloss: A continuous stream.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A hard line drive.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He hit a rope past third and into the corner.
gloss: A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.
pos: noun
tags: Jainism
countable
uncountable
examples: The central strip of the loka, the Middle World, represents its smallest area, being only one rope wide and one hundred thousand leagues high, […]
gloss: A necklace of at least one meter in length.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Cordage of at least one inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A unit of length equal to twenty feet.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: Rohypnol.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: Semen being ejaculated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural-normally
slang
uncountable
examples: shooting ropes
gloss: Death by hanging.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
with-definite-article
examples: The murderer was sentenced to the rope.
gloss: An apparatus, currently with limited use by the senior contestants and not used in world-wide tournaments.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: An apparatus, currently with limited use by the senior contestants and not used in world-wide tournaments.
pos: noun
tags: countable
metonymically
uncountable
gloss: To tie (something) with rope.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The robber roped the victims.
gloss: To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The cowboy roped the calf.
gloss: To climb by means of a rope or ropes.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We roped down to the platform selected for the bivouac; set up our bags and brewed a reasonable meal.
gloss: To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Let us not hang like roping icicles / Upon our houses' thatch.
gloss: To pull or restrain (the horse one is riding) to prevent it from winning a race.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Others, a shade more advanced, have been known to bribe a jockey to "hold," "rope" a horse, or a stableman to poison or stupefy him.
gloss: To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
intransitive
examples: My life is a mess; I might as well rope.
In figure 71, the poster Brahcel notes that he “almost roped” because he could not find the community […]
ToxicAlcoholSyndrome explains that his, “dreams are all really depressing and vivid, so… I’m constantly in a bad mood and know in the back of my brain, I need to rope.”
Another man wrote that the only reason he hasn't “roped” (incel terminology for death by suicide) is he didn't want to ruin his family's Christmas.
Derived words: battle rope
bell rope
boatrope
bolt rope
bolt-rope
breastrope
bull rope
bungee rope
bungy rope
buoy rope
bushrope
cable-laid rope
catch rope
catch-rope
Chinese jump rope
Chinese ropes
coyote's rope
crack-rope
dance on a rope
day of the rope
dead man's rope
dead-rope
devil's rope
dog rope
drag-rope
drag rope
fast rope
flat rope
footrope
frozen rope
gift rope
give one enough rope
give someone enough rope
give someone enough rope and they'll hang themself
glass-rope
goat rope
goat-rope
guest rope
guide rope
guy rope
handrope
hawser-laid rope
headrope
hide-rope
hobble rope
hobblerope
hobble-rope
Indian rope trick
jump rope
know the ropes
laid rope
learn the ropes
leg rope
Manila rope
manrope
mastrope
money for old rope
nope rope
on the high rope
on the high ropes
on the ropes
outrope
picket rope
piss up a rope
prayer rope
push rope
raft-rope
ridge rope
ridgerope
rope and choke
ropeband
rope-band
ropebark
rope bed
rope bridge
rope bunny
rope burn
rope clamp
rope dance
rope dancer
rope-dancer
ropedancing
rope-dancing
rope dart
rope drilling
rope-end
ropefish
ropefuel
ropefull
rope grass
ropehead
ropeheaded
rope-house
rope-jump
rope kiss
rope ladder
ropeless
ropelike
rope-like
rope line
ropeline
ropeloft
rope machine
rope-maker
ropemaker
ropemaking
ropeman
ropemanship
ropemate
ropemaxx
Rope Monday
rope of sand
rope out
rope-over
rope porter
rope pulling
rope pump
rope railway
rope-ripe
rope runner
ropery
ropes course
Ropes Crossing
rope's end
rope-sick
ropesman
rope stitch
rope swing
ropeswing
rope-tide
rope tornado
rope tow
rope trick
rope twist
rope up
ropewalker
ropewalking
ropewalk
rope-walk
rope wall
ropeway
rope-way
rope winch
ropeworker
ropework
rope-work
rope worm
rope-worthy
rope-yard
rope yarn
ropey
ropy
ropish
shoot a rope
show one the ropes
skipping rope
skip rope
slack-rope
stirrup
stretch rope
teach one the ropes
the end of one's rope
throw someone a rope
tight-rope
tightrope
tight rope
top-rope
top rope
tow rope
towrope
trail rope
twopenny rope
unrope
wainrope
wine rope
wire rope
yard-rope
yard rope
you'd complain if you were hung with a new rope
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: въже
roman: vǎže