rope
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: rōp, IPA(key): /ɹəʊp/
- (US) enPR: rōp, IPA(key): /ɹoʊp/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (file) - Rhymes: -əʊp
Etymology 1
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”).
Alternative forms
- roap, roape (all obsolete)
Noun
rope (countable and uncountable, plural ropes)
- (uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
- Synonyms: twine, line, cord; see also Thesaurus:string
- Nylon rope is usually stronger than similar rope made of plant fibers.
- (countable) An individual length of such material.
- The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes.
- A cohesive strand of something.
- The duchess wore a rope of pearls to the soirée.
- 2003, Dennis Lehane, Mystic River, →ISBN, page 138:
- Jimmy began to scream and ropes of spit shot from his mouth.
- (slang, vulgar) A shot of semen that a man releases during ejaculation.
- (dated) A continuous stream.
- 1852, John Bourne, A Treatise on the Screw Propeller: With Various Suggestions of Improvement, page 38:
- 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.
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- (baseball) A hard line drive.
- He hit a rope past third and into the corner.
- (ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
- (computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
- (military, uncountable) A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.
- (Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.
- Synonyms: rajju, infinitude
- 2001, “Review of Metaphysical Teaching”, in Nagendra Kr. Singh, editor, Encyclopaedia of Jainism, →ISBN, page 7522:
- The central strip of the loka, the Middle World, represents its smallest area, being only one rope wide and one hundred thousand leagues high, […]
- (jewelry) A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.
- (nautical) Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
- (archaic) A unit of length equal to 20 feet.
- (slang) Rohypnol.
- (slang, usually in the plural) Semen being ejaculated.
- (with "the") Death by hanging.
- The murderer was sentenced to the rope.
Derived terms
- dog rope
- give one enough rope
- jump rope
- know the ropes
- learn the ropes
- money for old rope
- on the ropes
- picket rope
- rope ladder
- Rope Monday
- rope tow
- rope-band
- rope-dancer
- rope-dancing
- rope-end
- ropefull
- rope-house
- rope-like
- rope-maker
- ropemanship
- rope-over
- ropery
- rope-ripe
- rope's end
- rope-sick
- rope-tide
- ropewalk, rope-walk
- ropework, rope-work
- ropey, ropy
- rope-yard
- show one the ropes
- teach one the ropes
- skipping rope
- wire rope
Descendants
- → Irish: rópa
- Tok Pisin: rop
Translations
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Further reading
- Rope on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Rope (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
From Middle English ropen, rope (“to form ropes”), from rop (“rope”); see above.
Verb
rope (third-person singular simple present ropes, present participle roping, simple past and past participle roped)
- (transitive) To tie (something) with rope.
- The robber roped the victims.
- (transitive) To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).
- The cowboy roped the calf.
- (intransitive) To climb by means of a rope or ropes.
- 1984, G. F. Dutton, The Ridiculous Mountains (page 153)
- We roped down to the platform selected for the bivouac; set up our bags and brewed a reasonable meal.
- 1984, G. F. Dutton, The Ridiculous Mountains (page 153)
- (intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene v]:
- Let us not hang like roping icicles / Upon our houses' thatch.
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- (incel slang, intransitive) To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.
- 2019, anonymous, quoted in Julia Rose DeCook, "Curating the Future: The Sustainability Practices of Online Hate Groups", dissertation submitted to Michigan State University, page 153:
- In figure 71, the poster Brahcel notes that he “almost roped” because he could not find the community […]
- 2020, Joshua A. Segalewitz, "'You Don't Understand... It's Not About Virginity': Sexual Markets, Identity Construction, and Violent Masculinity on an Incel Forum Board", thesis submitted to the University of Dayton, page 36:
- ToxicAlcoholSyndrome explains that his, “dreams are all really depressing and vivid, so… I’m constantly in a bad mood and know in the back of my brain, I need to rope.”
- 2021, Laura Bates, From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All, unnumbered page:
- Another man wrote that the only reason he hasn't “roped” (incel terminology for death by suicide) is he didn't want to ruin his family's Christmas.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:rope.
- My life is a mess; I might as well rope.
- 2019, anonymous, quoted in Julia Rose DeCook, "Curating the Future: The Sustainability Practices of Online Hate Groups", dissertation submitted to Michigan State University, page 153:
Synonyms
- (tie with rope): tie, bind, secure
- (throw a rope around): lasso
Derived terms
- ropable, ropeable
- rope-a-dope
- roped
- rope in
- roper
- rope together
Translations
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Etymology 3
From Middle English rop (“gut, intestine”), from Old English rop, ropp; compare Middle Dutch rop, roppe (“fish guts”).
The modern pronunciation results from phonological assimilation to Etymology 1.
Alternative forms
- rop, rap (dialectal)
Noun
rope (plural ropes)
- (in the plural) The small intestines.
- the ropes of birds
Anagrams
- Pero, oper, pore, reop, repo
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈrope/, [ˈro̞pe̞]
- Rhymes: -ope
- Syllabification(key): ro‧pe
Noun
rope
- (gaming, slang) Clipping of roolipeli (“RPG, role-playing game”).
Declension
Inflection of rope (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | rope | ropet | |
genitive | ropen | ropejen | |
partitive | ropea | ropeja | |
illative | ropeen | ropeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | rope | ropet | |
accusative | nom. | rope | ropet |
gen. | ropen | ||
genitive | ropen | ropejen | |
partitive | ropea | ropeja | |
inessive | ropessa | ropeissa | |
elative | ropesta | ropeista | |
illative | ropeen | ropeihin | |
adessive | ropella | ropeilla | |
ablative | ropelta | ropeilta | |
allative | ropelle | ropeille | |
essive | ropena | ropeina | |
translative | ropeksi | ropeiksi | |
instructive | — | ropein | |
abessive | ropetta | ropeitta | |
comitative | — | ropeineen |
Possessive forms of rope (type valo) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | ropeni | ropemme |
2nd person | ropesi | ropenne |
3rd person | ropensa |
Derived terms
- ropettaa (“to roleplay”)
Anagrams
- Repo, pore, repo
Middle English
Noun
rope
- Alternative form of rop (“rope”)
Verb
rope
- Alternative form of ropen (“to form ropes”)
Verb
rope
- Alternative form of ropen (“to cry out”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse hrópa, from Proto-Germanic *hrōpaną.
Verb
rope (imperative rop, present tense roper, simple past ropte, past participle ropt)
- to shout
Derived terms
- utrope
References
- “rope” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
rope (imperative rop, present tense ropar or roper, simple past ropa or ropte, past participle ropa or ropt, present participle ropande)
- Alternative form of ropa