ropes

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. (form-of, plural) plural of rope
2. (in-plural) Basic skills of a job.

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of rope

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rope

• Noun
• Verb

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Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ɹoʊps/

Etimologia (Inglese)

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.