Definition of ROPE

rope

Plural: ropes

Noun

  • a strong line
  • street names for flunitrazepan
  • Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
  • An individual length of such material.
  • A cohesive strand of something.
  • A continuous stream.
  • A hard line drive.
  • 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.
  • Death by hanging.
  • The small intestines.

Verb

Verb Forms: roped, roping, ropes

  • To bind, tie, or secure with a rope.
  • catch with a lasso
    • "rope cows"
  • fasten with a rope
    • "rope the bag securely"
  • To tie (something) with rope.
  • To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).
  • 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.

Examples

  • He hit a rope past third and into the corner.
  • I tried to ROPE my opponent into a low-scoring area of the Scrabble board.
  • Nylon rope is usually stronger than similar rope made of plant fibers.
  • shooting ropes
  • The cowboy roped the calf.
  • The duchess wore a rope of pearls to the soirée.
  • The murderer was sentenced to the rope.
  • The robber roped the victims.
  • the ropes of birds
  • The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes.

Origin / 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”).

Synonyms

circle, forget me drug, lasso, leash, Mexican valium, R-2, roach, roofy, rophy, bind, commit suicide, cord, infinitude, line, rajju, ropemaxx, secure, string, tie, twine

Scrabble Score: 6

rope: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
rope: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
rope: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

rope: valid Words With Friends Word