rope

English

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Pronunciation

(UK) enPR: rōp, IPA: /rəʊp/, X-SAMPA: /r@Up/
(US) enPR: rōp, IPA: /roʊp/, X-SAMPA: /roUp/
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Rhymes: -əʊp

Etymology

From Old English rāp. Cognate with Albanian rrip (“belt,rope”).

Noun

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Rope

Wikipedia rope (countable and uncountable; plural ropes)

Length of rope.

(uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line. ^syn.^transl.
Nylon rope is usually stronger than similar rope made of plant fibers.
(countable) An individual length of such material.
The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes.
A cohesive strand of something.
- 2003, Dennis Lehane, Mystic River^[1], ISBN 0688163165, page 138:
  Jimmy began to scream and ropes of spit shot from his mouth.
(dated) A continuous stream.
- 1852, John Bourne, A Treatise on the Screw Propeller: With Various Suggestions of Improvement, page 38:
  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.
(baseball) A hard line drive.
He hit a rope past third and into the corner.
(ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
(computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
(Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second. ^syn.
- 2001, “Review of Metaphysical Teaching”, in Nagendra Kr. Singh editor, Encyclopaedia of Jainism^[2], ISBN 8126106913, 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, […]
(jewelry) A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.
(nautical) Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
(archaic) A unit of length equal to 20 feet.
(slang) Flunitrazepam, also known as Rohypnol.
(in the plural) The small intestines.
the ropes of birds

Synonyms

(thick string ^def.^transl.): twine, line, cord; see also Wikisaurus:string
(unit of cosmic distance ^def.): rajju, infinitude

Derived terms

terms derived from rope (noun)

Translations

thick, strong string

Afrikaans: tou (af)
Albanian: litar (sq)
Amharic: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: حبل (ar) (ḥabl) m
Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: պարան (hy) (paran)
Aromanian: fune (rup), coardã (rup) f
Asturian: cuerda (ast) f, soga (ast) f
Azeri: kəndir (az)
Bashkir: please add this translation if you can
Belarusian: вяроўка (be) (vjaróŭka) f
Bengali: দড়ি (bn) (daŗi)
Breton: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: въже (bg) (vǎžé) n
Burmese: ကြိုး (my) (kyo:)
Catalan: corda (ca) f
Chamicuro: ijcha, mespijcha
Cherokee: ᏍᏕᏱᏛ (chr) (sdeyidv)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 繩子 (cmn), 绳子 (cmn) (shéngzi)
Crimean Tatar: arqan
Czech: lano (cs) n
Danish: tov (da) n
Dutch: touw (nl) n
Esperanto: ŝnuro (eo)
Estonian: köis (et)
Faroese: reip (fo) n, tog (fo) n
Finnish: köysi (fi)
French: corde (fr) f
Friulian: cuarde
Galician: corda (gl) f, soga (gl) f
Georgian: თოკი (ka) (t‘oki), საბელი (ka) (sabeli), ბაგირი (ka) (bagiri)
German: Seil (de) n, Tau (de) n
Greek: σκοινί (el) (skoiní) n
Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
Hebrew: חבל (he) (khevel) m
Hindi: डोरी (hi) (ḍorī) f
Hungarian: kötél (hu)
Icelandic: reipi (is) n, tog (is) n
Ido: please add this translation if you can
Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
Interlingue: please add this translation if you can
Irish: téad (ga) f
Italian: corda (it) f, cavo (it) m
Japanese: ロープ (ja) (rōpu), 綱 (ja) (つな, tsuna), 縄 (ja) (なわ, nawa)
Kannada: please add this translation if you can
Kazakh: арқан (kk) (arqan), жіп (kk) (jip)
Khmer: ខ្សែ (km) (ksae), ពួរ (km) (puə)
Korean: 밧줄 (ko) (batjul)
Kurdish: please add this translation if you can
Kyrgyz: аркан (ky) (arkan), жип (ky) (cip)
Lao: ເຊືອກ (lo) (sɨ̑aːk)
Latgalian: vierve f
Latin: fūnis (la) m, rudēns (la) m
Latvian: aukla (lv) f, virve (lv) f
Lithuanian: virvė (lt) f
Luhya: kumukoye
Luxembourgish: Seel (lb) n
Macedonian: јаже (mk) (jáže) n

Malay: tali (ms)
Maltese: ħabel (mt) m
Maori: please add this translation if you can
Marathi: please add this translation if you can
Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
Mongolian: олс (mn) (ols)
Navajo: tłʼóół
Nepali: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian: tau (no) n
Novial: please add this translation if you can
Occitan: please add this translation if you can
Old English: sāl (ang) m
Oriya: please add this translation if you can
Papiamentu: kabuya, liña
Pashto: please add this translation if you can
Persian: طناب (fa) (tanâb)
Polish: lina (pl) f
Portuguese: corda (pt) f
Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
Quechua: watu (qu)
Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
Romanian: frânghie (ro) f, coardă (ro), funie (ro)
Romansch: suga (rm) f (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan), suja (rm) f (Sutsilvan), soua (rm) f (Surmiran), sua (rm) f (Puter, Vallader), sughet (rm) m (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan)
Russian: верёвка (ru) (verjóvka) f, трос (ru) (tros) m (thick), канат (ru) (kanát) m (cable)
Scottish Gaelic: ròp (gd) m, ròpa (gd) m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: уже (sh) n

Roman: uže (sh) n
Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
Slovak: lano (sk) n
Slovene: vrv (sl) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: powrjoz m
Spanish: cuerda (es) f, soga (es) f
Swahili: kamba (sw)
Swedish: rep (sv) n
Tagalog: tali (tl)
Tajik: арғамчин (tg) (arġamčin), таноб (tg) (tanob)
Talysh:
Asalemi: لافند (lâfənd), لافوند (lâfund)
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Tatar: аркан (tt) (arqan)
Telugu: తాడు (te) (tāḍu), మోకు (te) (mōku)
Thai: เชือก (th) (chêuak)
Turkish: halat (tr)
Turkmen: tanap (tk), ýüp (tk)
Ukrainian: вірьовка (uk) (virʹóvka) f
Urdu: رسی (ur) (resa), ڈوری (ur) (ḍorī) f
Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
Uzbek: arqon (uz), arg'amchi (uz)
Vietnamese: dây (vi)
Volapük: please add this translation if you can
Walloon: coide (wa) f
Welsh: rhaff (cy) f
Yiddish: שטריק (yi) (shtrik) m and f
Zulu: intambo (zu) 9/10

a length of this string

Albanian: litar (sq)
Catalan: corda (ca) f
Dutch: touw (nl) n
Finnish: köysi (fi)
French: corde (fr) f, cordage (fr) m
German: Seil (de) n, Tau (de) n

Irish: téad (ga) f
Italian: corda (it) f
Portuguese: corda (pt) f
Russian: верёвка (ru) (verjóvka) f
Spanish: cuerda (es) f, soga (es) f
Swedish: rep (sv) n

Verb

rope (third-person singular simple present ropes, present participle roping, simple past and past participle roped)

(transitive) To tie (something) with something.
The robber roped the victims.
(transitive) To throw a rope around (something).
The cowboy roped the calf.
(intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
- Shakespeare
  Let us not hang like roping icicles / Upon our houses' thatch.