Rope

/ɹəʊp/ · noun

Meaning

(uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
2. (countable) An individual length of such material.
3. A cohesive strand of something.
4. (dated) A continuous stream.
5. (baseball) A hard line drive.
6. (ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
7. (computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
8. (military, uncountable) A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.

Example Sentences

Nylon rope is usually stronger than similar rope made of plant fibers.

The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes.

All at once, let’s heave on the rope!

The duchess wore a rope of pearls to the soirée.

Jimmy began to scream and ropes of spit shot from his mouth.

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.

He hit a rope past third and into the corner.

The central strip of the loka, the Middle World, represents its smallest area, being only one rope wide and one hundred thousand leagues high, […]

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Word Forms

• ropes
• roap
• roape
• roping
• roped
• rop
• rap

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