Definition of "rope" in Englisch

noun

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

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

2. (countable) An individual length of such material.

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

3. A cohesive strand of something.

   • The duchess wore a rope of pearls to the soirée.

4. (dated) A continuous stream.

5. (baseball) A hard line drive.

   • He hit a rope past third and into the corner.

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.

9. (Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.

10. (jewelry) A necklace of at least one meter in length.

11. (nautical) Cordage of at least one inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.

12. (archaic) A unit of length equal to twenty feet.

13. (slang) Rohypnol.

14. (slang, usually in the plural) Semen being ejaculated.

    • shooting ropes

15. (with "the") Death by hanging.

    • The murderer was sentenced to the rope.

16. (rhythmic gymnastics, countable) An apparatus, currently with limited use by the senior contestants and not used in world-wide tournaments.

verb

1. (transitive) To tie (something) with rope.

   • The robber roped the victims.

2. (transitive) To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).

   • The cowboy roped the calf.

3. (intransitive) To climb by means of a rope or ropes.

4. (intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.

5. (transitive) To pull or restrain (the horse one is riding) to prevent it from winning a race.

   • 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.