Meaning

2 senses
  1. A long rope with a sliding loop on one end, generally used in ranching to catch cattle and horses.

    He managed to catch the runaway bull with a lasso.

    She threw the lasso skillfully around the post.

    Lasso

    лассо́lassó, арка́нarkán

    a long noosed rope used to catch animals

  2. An image-editing function allowing the user to capture an irregularly-shaped object by drawing an approximate outline.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. That old lasso is on the left.

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  2. The priest reprimanded the altar boy for swinging the incense around like a lasso.

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  3. He twirled his lasso skillfully.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a long rope with a sliding loop:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a long rope with a sliding loop:

Origin

From Spanish lazo, from Vulgar Latin *laceum, from Latin laqueus. Doublet of lace.

From Spanish lazo, from Vulgar Latin *laceum, from Latin laqueus. Doublet of lace.

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Forms

plural: lassos / lassoes

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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