Definitions and meaning of rope
rope
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: rōp, IPA(key): /ɹəʊp/
- (US) enPR: rōp, IPA(key): /ɹoʊp/
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- 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
- (countable) An individual length of such material.
- A cohesive strand of something.
- (slang, vulgar) A shot of semen released during ejaculation.
- (dated) A continuous stream.
- (baseball) A hard line drive.
- (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.
- Synonym: cord
- (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
- (jewelry) A necklace of at least one meter in length.
- (nautical) Cordage of at least one inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
- (archaic) A unit of length equal to twenty feet.
- (slang) Rohypnol.
- (slang, usually in the plural) Semen being ejaculated.
- (with "the") Death by hanging.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Irish: rópa
- Tok Pisin: rop
Translations
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.
- (transitive) To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).
- (intransitive) To climb by means of a rope or ropes.
- (intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
- (transitive) To pull or restrain (the horse one is riding) to prevent it from winning a race.
- 1882, Edwin Sharpe Grew, Baden Fletcher Smyth Baden-Powell, Arthur Cowper Ranyard, Knowledge...: A Monthly Record of Science (volume 1, page 132)
- Others, a shade more advanced, have been known to bribe a jockey to "hold," "rope" a horse, or a stableman to poison or stupefy him.
- (Internet slang, originally 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.”
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- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:rope.
- My life is a mess; I might as well rope.
Synonyms
- (tie with rope): tie, bind, secure
- (throw a rope around): lasso
- (kill oneself): ropemaxx; see also Thesaurus:commit suicide
Derived terms
Translations
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
Noun
rope (plural ropes)
- (in the plural) The small intestines.
Anagrams
- Pero, oper, pore, reop, repo
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈrope/, [ˈro̞pe̞]
- Rhymes: -ope
- Syllabification(key): ro‧pe
- Hyphenation(key): ro‧pe
Noun
rope (slang)
- (gaming) clipping of roolipeli (“RPG, role-playing game”)
Declension
Derived terms
Anagrams
Lithuanian
Noun
rópe
- instrumental/vocative singular of rópė (“turnip”)
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
rope
- alternative form of rop (“rope”)
Etymology 2
Verb
rope
- alternative form of ropen (“to form ropes”)
Etymology 3
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
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
Source: wiktionary.org