rope

Fetched 2026-10-28 (live).

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Noun

Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
- Nylon rope is usually stronger than similar rope made of plant fibers.
An individual length of such material.
- The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes.
- All at once, let’s heave on the rope!
A cohesive strand of something.
- The duchess wore a rope of pearls to the soirée.
A continuous stream.
A hard line drive.
- He hit a rope past third and into the corner.
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.
- shooting ropes
Death by hanging.
- The murderer was sentenced to the rope.
An apparatus, currently with limited use by the senior contestants and not used in world-wide tournaments. An apparatus program with a rope.
An apparatus program with a rope.

To tie (something) with rope.
- The robber roped the victims.
To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).
- The cowboy roped the calf.
To climb by means of a rope or ropes.
To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
To pull or restrain (the horse one is riding) to prevent it from winning a race.
To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.
- My life is a mess; I might as well rope.

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