rope

(Anglès)

Noun

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. (countable, uncountable) A cohesive strand of something.
4. (countable, dated, uncountable) A continuous stream.
5. (countable, uncountable) A hard line drive.
6. (countable, uncountable) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
7. (countable, uncountable) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
8. (uncountable) A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.
9. (Jainism, countable, uncountable) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.
10. (countable, uncountable) A necklace of at least one meter in length.
11. (countable, uncountable) Cordage of at least one inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
12. (archaic, countable, uncountable) A unit of length equal to twenty feet.
13. (countable, slang, uncountable) Rohypnol.
14. (countable, plural-normally, slang, uncountable) Semen being ejaculated.
15. (countable, uncountable, with-definite-article) Death by hanging.
16. (countable) An apparatus, currently with limited use by the senior contestants and not used in world-wide tournaments.
17. (countable, metonymically, uncountable) 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.
2. (transitive) To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).
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.
6. (Internet, intransitive) To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ɹəʊp/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: rop

Heretat de anglès antic: rāp

Cognat amb escocès: rape

Cognat amb Saterfriesisch: Roop

Cognat amb frisó occidental: reap

Cognat amb neerlandès: roop

Cognat amb suec: rep

Cognat amb danès: reb

Cognat amb islandès: reipi

Cognat amb albanès: rrip

Heretat de anglès mitjà: ropen

Heretat de anglès antic: rop

Cognat amb neerlandès mitjà: rop

In summary

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”).

Conceptes

corda

🪢

maroma

baga

cordell

🪢

fil d’empalomar

cordill

🪢

soga

🪢

corda gruixuda

fil

🧵

Sinònims

string

🪢

cord

cable

line

thread

🧵

twine

hawser

tether

vine

halter

lasso

tie

wire

belt

lariat

hemp

band

leash

chain

roofy

chaff

rophy

R-2

Mexican valium

forget me drug

sling

circle

⭕

roach

strand

cable wire

clothes-line

fishing line

yarn

🧶

fibre

fasten

window

🪟

strap

root

steel cable

bar

rigging

chord

lanyard

fetter

wire rope

charge

block

catch

bindle

bale

Frases

It is wrapped around the waist and secured with a kafa rope .