rope
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Is rope a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of rope?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.Examples: "Nylon rope is usually stronger than similar rope made of plant fibers."Synonyms: twine, line, cord, stringuncountable
2. (countable) An individual length of such material.Examples: "The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes."countable
3. (dated) A continuous stream.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."countabledateduncountable
4. (baseball) A hard line drive.Examples: "He hit a rope past third and into the corner."countableuncountable
5. (ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.countableuncountable
6. (computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.Synonyms: cordcountableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To tie (something) with rope.Examples: "The robber roped the victims."Synonyms: tie, bind, securetransitive
2. (transitive) To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).Examples: "The cowboy roped the calf."Synonyms: lassotransitive
3. (intransitive) To climb by means of a rope or ropes.Examples: "We roped down to the platform selected for the bivouac; set up our bags and brewed a reasonable meal."intransitive
4. (intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.Examples: "Let us not hang like roping icicles / Upon our houses' thatch."intransitive
5. (transitive) To pull or restrain (the horse one is riding) to prevent it from winning a race.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."transitive
6. (Internet slang, originally incel slang, intransitive) To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.Examples: "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."Synonyms: ropemaxxInternetintransitive
noun (English)
1. (in the plural) The small intestines.Examples: "the ropes of birds"in-plural
Definition source: Wiktionary