Meaning

18 senses
  1. (uncountable)Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.

    Nylon rope is usually stronger than similar rope made of plant fibers.

    Seil, Tau, Schnur

    верёвкаverjóvka, тросtros, кана́тkanát

    вірьо́вкаvirʹóvka, моту́зкаmotúzka, шво́ркаšvórka

  2. (countable)An individual length of such material.

    The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes.

    All at once, let’s heave on the rope!

  3. (countable, uncountable)A cohesive strand of something.

    The duchess wore a rope of pearls to the soirée.

  4. (countable, dated, uncountable)A continuous stream.

  5. (countable, uncountable)A hard line drive.

    He hit a rope past third and into the corner.

    a strong line

  6. (countable, uncountable)A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.

  7. (countable, uncountable)A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.

  8. (uncountable)A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.

  9. (Jainism, countable, uncountable)A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.

  10. (countable, uncountable)A necklace of at least one meter in length.

  11. (countable, uncountable)Cordage of at least one inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.

    Seil, Tau

    верёвкаverjóvka

  12. (countable, slang, uncountable)Rohypnol.

Examples

445 sentences
  1. Don't let go of the rope.

    Не відпускай мотузку. — deniko

    ruНе отпускай верёвку. — afyodor

    deLass das Seil nicht los. — Wolf

  2. I let go of the rope.

    Я відпустив мотузку. — Anjy

    ruЯ отпустил верёвку. — afyodor

    deIch ließ das Seil los. — Lars224

  3. He let go of the rope.

    Він відпустив мотузку. — deniko

    ruОн отпустил верёвку. — marafon

    deEr ließ das Seil los. — Wolf

  4. Tom is looking for the rope.

    Том шукає мотузку. — deniko

  5. He cut the rope with his teeth.

    Він перегриз мотузку. — deniko

    ruОн перегрыз верёвку. — Biga

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
thick, strong string:
Русский
By meaning 1
thick, strong string:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
thick, strong string:

Origin

From Middle English rop, rope, from Old English rāp (“rope, cord, cable”), from Proto-West

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”).

From Middle English rop (“gut, intestine”), from Old English rop, ropp; compare Middle Dutch rop, roppe (“fish guts”).

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Forms

plural: ropes

Synonyms

13 synonyms

Word family

123 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • cut the rope
  • of the rope
  • piece of rope
  • the rope with
  • jumping rope
  • rope ladder
  • a rope ladder
  • grabbed the rope
  • onto the rope
  • held the rope
  • pulled the rope
  • rope with both

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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