rope

== English == === Pronunciation === (UK) enPR: rōp, IPA(key): /ɹəʊp/ (US) enPR: rōp, IPA(key): /ɹoʊp/ Rhymes: -əʊp === Etymology 1 === 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”). ==== Alternative forms ==== roap, roape (all obsolete) ==== Noun ==== rope (countable and uncountable, plural ropes) (uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line. Synonyms: twine, line, cord; see also Thesaurus:string (countable) An individual length of such material. A cohesive strand of something. (dated) A continuous stream. (baseball) A hard line drive. (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. Synonym: cord (military, uncountable) A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached. (Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second. Synonyms: rajju, infinitude (jewelry) A necklace of at least one meter in length. (nautical) Cordage of at least one inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage. (archaic) A unit of length equal to twenty feet. (slang) Rohypnol. (slang, usually in the plural) Semen being ejaculated. (with "the") Death by hanging. (rhythmic gymnastics, countable) An apparatus, currently with limited use by the senior contestants and not used in world-wide tournaments. (rhythmic gymnastics, metonymic) An apparatus program with a rope. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== → Irish: rópa Tok Pisin: rop ===== Translations ===== ===== Further reading ===== Rope on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Rope (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Etymology 2 === From Middle English ropen, rope (“to form ropes”), from rop (“rope”); see above. ==== Verb ==== rope (third-person singular simple present ropes, present participle roping, simple past and past participle roped) (transitive) To tie (something) with rope. (transitive) To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something). (intransitive) To climb by means of a rope or ropes. (intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread. (transitive) To pull or restrain (the horse one is riding) to prevent it from winning a race. 1882, Edwin Sharpe Grew, Baden Fletcher Smyth Baden-Powell, Arthur Cowper Ranyard, Knowledge...: A Monthly Record of Science (volume 1, page 132) 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. (Internet slang, originally incel slang, intransitive) To commit suicide, particularly by hanging. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:rope. ===== Synonyms ===== (tie with rope): tie, bind, secure (throw a rope around): lasso (kill oneself): ropemaxx; see also Thesaurus:commit suicide ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 3 === From Middle English rop (“gut, intestine”), from Old English rop, ropp; compare Middle Dutch rop, roppe (“fish guts”). The modern pronunciation results from phonological assimilation to Etymology 1. ==== Alternative forms ==== rop, rap (dialectal) ==== Noun ==== rope (plural ropes) (in the plural) The small intestines. === Anagrams === Pero, oper, pore, reop, repo == Finnish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈrope/, [ˈro̞pe̞] Rhymes: -ope Syllabification(key): ro‧pe Hyphenation(key): ro‧pe === Noun === rope (slang) (gaming) syllabic abbreviation of roolipeli (“RPG, role-playing game”) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Anagrams === Repo, pore, repo == Lithuanian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [¹ˈroːpʲɛ] Rhymes: -oːpʲɛ Syllabification: ró‧pe === Noun === rópe instrumental/vocative singular of rópė (“turnip”) == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === ==== Noun ==== rope alternative form of rop (“rope”) === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== rope alternative form of ropen (“to form ropes”) === Etymology 3 === ==== Verb ==== rope alternative form of ropen (“to cry out”) == Norwegian Bokmål == === Etymology === From Old Norse hrópa, from Proto-Germanic *hrōpaną. === Verb === rope (imperative rop, present tense roper, simple past ropte, past participle ropt) to shout ==== Derived terms ==== utrope === References === “rope” in The Bokmål Dictionary. == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Verb === rope (imperative rop, present tense ropar or roper, simple past ropa or ropte, past participle ropa or ropt, present participle ropande) alternative form of ropa