ROPE
\ɹˈə͡ʊp], \ɹˈəʊp], \ɹ_ˈəʊ_p]\
Definitions of ROPE
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A guide rope.
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A large, stout cord, usually one not less than an inch in circumference, made of strands twisted or braided together. It differs from cord, line, and string, only in its size. See Cordage.
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A row or string consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc.; as, a rope of onions.
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The small intestines; as, the ropes of birds.
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To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread, as by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality.
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To bind, fasten, or tie with a rope or cord; as, to rope a bale of goods.
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To connect or fasten together, as a party of mountain climbers, with a rope.
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To partition, separate, or divide off, by means of a rope, so as to include or exclude something; as, to rope in, or rope off, a plot of ground; to rope out a crowd.
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To lasso (a steer, horse).
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To draw, as with a rope; to entice; to inveigle; to decoy; as, to rope in customers or voters.
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To prevent from winning (as a horse), by pulling or curbing.
By Oddity Software
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A guide rope.
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A large, stout cord, usually one not less than an inch in circumference, made of strands twisted or braided together. It differs from cord, line, and string, only in its size. See Cordage.
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A row or string consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc.; as, a rope of onions.
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The small intestines; as, the ropes of birds.
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To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread, as by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality.
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To bind, fasten, or tie with a rope or cord; as, to rope a bale of goods.
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To connect or fasten together, as a party of mountain climbers, with a rope.
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To partition, separate, or divide off, by means of a rope, so as to include or exclude something; as, to rope in, or rope off, a plot of ground; to rope out a crowd.
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To lasso (a steer, horse).
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To draw, as with a rope; to entice; to inveigle; to decoy; as, to rope in customers or voters.
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To prevent from winning (as a horse), by pulling or curbing.
By Noah Webster.
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A thick, stout cord made of several strands of hemp, cotton. Flax, etc., twisted together; a collection of things braided or twined together in a line or string; as, a rope of pearls; any glutinous or slimy thread formed in a liquid.
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To fasten, bind, or tie with a rope; to divide off, by means of a rope; as, to rope off a plot of ground; colloquially, to lasso, or draw in by means of a noose, as a steer.
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To become drawn out into threads; as, the jelly ropes.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
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ROPILY.
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ROPINESS.
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To tie up, unite, or enclose with rope.
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A thick cord of twisted fibers.
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A glutinous filament or thread.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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n. [Anglo-Saxon] A large, stout line or cord of several strands twisted together and not less usually than an inch in circumference: —a row or string consisting of a number of things united;— pl. Ropes, intestines of birds. Rope of sand, colloquially, tie or union easily broken.
