English Explanatory Dictionary

rope

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
  2. An individual length of such material.
  3. A cohesive strand of something.
  4. A continuous stream.
  5. A hard line drive.
  6. A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
  7. A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
  8. A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.
  9. A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.
  10. A necklace of at least one meter in length.
  11. Cordage of at least one inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
  12. A unit of length equal to twenty feet.
verb
  1. To tie (something) with rope.
  2. To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).
  3. To climb by means of a rope or ropes.
  4. To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
  5. To pull or restrain (the horse one is riding) to prevent it from winning a race.
  6. To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.
noun
  1. The small intestines.

Pronunciation

rōp /ɹəʊp/ /ɹoʊp/ en-us-rope.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-rope.wav

Word forms

rope ropes roap roape roping roped rop rap

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

twine line cord string rajju infinitude tie bind secure lasso ropemaxx

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

Translations

Bulgarian: въже
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