ropes

Bedeutung (Englisch)

1. plural of rope
2. Basic skills of a job.

Seil

🪢

hold fast

Frequenz

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ɹoʊps/

In the sense of skills, a now figurative use that originally referred to literal ropes. The phrase “he knows the ropes” written on a seaman’s discharge meant that he was inexperienced and only familiar with a ship’s principal ropes.

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Neu

rope

1. Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
2. An individual length of such material.
3. A cohesive strand of something.
4. (slang) A cohesive strand of something.
5. A continuous stream.
6. A hard line drive.
7. A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
8. A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
9. A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.
10. A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.
11. A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.
12. Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
13. A unit of length equal to 20 feet.
14. (slang) Rohypnol.
15. (slang) Semen being ejaculated.
16. Death by hanging.