ROPES

"ROPES" is a plural of: rope.

Date "ROPES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Literature

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Excitation

Stung to the quick, up, on one;s high ropes.

Pride

On one's dignity, on one's high horses,on one's tight ropes, on one's high ropes; on stilts; en grand seigneur.

Resentment

Flushed with anger, flushed with rage; in a huff, in a stew, in a fume, in a pucker, in a passion, in a rage, in a fury, in a taking, in a way; on one's high ropes, up in arms; in high dudgeon.

Crosswords: ROPES

A mad man, your honor, a desperate fool at the end of his pitiful ropes. (Liar Liar; writing credit: Paul Guay; Stephen Mazur)

You couldn't enjoy its loveliness more if you had ropes of diamonds (Anne of Green Gables; writing credit: Lucy Maud Montgomery; Kevin Sullivan)

No, he won't have it , he knows his whole back to these ropes (Lose Yourself; performing artist: EMINEM)

Against the Ropes (2003)

On the Ropes (1999)

Gina Learns the Ropes (1994)

Learning the Ropes (1993)

Roommates in Ropes (1992)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The World Market for Stranded Wire, Cable, Ropes, and Plaited Bands of Iron, Steel, Copper, or Aluminum Excluding Electrically Insulated: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Adelphia Communications: On the Financial Ropes [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Whitey ropes & rides (reference)

• Of Men, Ropes and Remembrance: The Stories from Bound & Gagged Magazine (reference)

• Inside the Ropes with Jesse Ventura (reference)

• Knots & Ropes for Climbers (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Figure 21. Model of Hodge's shock absorber or accumulator. This device was invented in 1852 by Richard Edward Hodges. It was used to aid in launching and retrieving heavy objects suspended from cables or ropes, particularly when a vessel is subject to motion if the seas are high. It was first used in oceanographic work off H. M. S. HYDRA in 1867. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Safer S/M sex know the ropes. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Ring & hook pulley with ropes to which back sail is attached when sails are down... Credit: Library of Congress.

Method of raising sunken ship with five ropes and ships, diagram of curved pipe in water, and surrounding text. Credit: Library of Congress.

Washington, D.C. Adjusting the ropes for hanging the conspirators. Credit: Library of Congress.

Clock, 1770, Ropes Mansion, Salem, Mass. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Double chest, Ropes Mansion, Salem, Mass. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pulling ropes for attachment to stakes. Lasses-White show. Sikeston, Missouri. Credit: Library of Congress.

Tightening ropes in raising circus tent. Lasses-White traveling show. Sikeston, Missouri. Credit: Library of Congress.

Converting cotton ropes into rough thread. Laurel cotton mills, Laurel, Mississippi. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

It would be a strange catalogue of things, that industry provided and made use of, about every loaf of bread, before it came to our use, if we could trace them; iron, wood, leather, bark, timber, stone, bricks, coals, lime, cloth, dying drugs, pitch, tar, masts, ropes, and all the materials made use of in the ship, that brought any of the commodities made use of by any of the workmen, to any part of the work; all which it would be almost impossible, at least too long, to reckon up. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The scaffold is not a mere frame, the scaffold is not a machine, the scaffold is not an inert piece of mechanism made of wood, of iron, and of ropes.

And ropes, of course

I was at the pains of making ropes and cables, by twisting ten, twenty or thirty of the thickest and strongest of theirs

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Vietnam

Only low-end safety/security items are produced locally (locks, safes, safety gloves, ropes, etc). (references)

Burma

These industrial zones have basically the same types of factories encompassing ice making, shoes, textiles, timber, plastic, pipes, flour and paper mills, electronic assembling, traditional medicine, tailoring, paints, iron ropes, marine products, corrugated sheets, rubber, furniture, bottled and canned soft drinks including mineral water and breweries, etc. (references)

Tanzania

Although the privatization program has contributed to new investment in the sector, the annual real growth rate in the manufacturing sector slowed down from 8 percent in 1998 to 3.6 percent in 1999. The sector's share in GDP also fell slightly from 8.4 percent in 1998 to 8.3 percent in 1999. The deterioration in performance was notable in the production of fishnets, sisal ropes, cigarettes, petroleum products, dry cells, and rolled steel owing to stiff competition from imported products, following the liberalization of the economy. (references)

Human Rights

Bangladesh

On May 16, police in Tongi arrested a 15-year-old boy under suspicion that he was "looking for someone to mug." The police tied him with ropes and beat him with sticks. (references)

Jordan

The most frequently alleged methods of torture include sleep deprivation, beatings on the soles of the feet, prolonged suspension with ropes in contorted positions, and extended solitary confinement. (references)

Burundi

The ABDP estimated that prison officials and security forces used beatings with batons and pipes, tying victims with ropes, electrocution, burning, bayonets, and needles to torture up to 45 percent of the prison population. (references)

Trade

Bangladesh

Other items completely banned on either religious/social/health grounds or on economic grounds in the case of textile products that compete directly with locally produced items, including: live pigs, pig and poultry fat, eggs (except hatching eggs), poppy seeds and dried posto dana, marijuana, opium, tendu leaves, lard, lard and tallow oil, solid or semi-solid palm oil, raw sugar, un-denatured ethyl alcohol (80.0% or higher) and other spirits denatured of any strength, wine, artificial mustard oil, selected petroleum products, woven fabrics of silk or silk waste, pig hair, some kinds of cloth, selected insecticides, nylon and polyethylene ropes, fishing nets (gillnets), used or new rags, vessels more than 15 years old, motorbikes more than three years old, and single phase electricity meters. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "ROPES": be on the high ropes ♦ be on the ropes ♦ know the ropes ♦ knowing the ropes ♦ on one's high ropes ♦ on the high ropes ♦ put on the ropes ♦ s high ropes ♦ show smb. the ropes ♦ To marry ropes ♦ wheel ropes. Additional references.

Ending with "ROPES": mooring-ropes, skipping-ropes.

Albanian

orientohem mirë (know the ropes). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملم بكل شىء (know the ropes), ‏مطلع على الأمور (know the ropes), ‏خبير بحل الأمور (knowing the ropes). (various references)

Bulgarian 

такелаж (tackle), корабни въжета. (various references)

Chinese 

綍 (heavy rope, ropes of a bier), 懂行 (to know the ropes). (various references)

Czech

znát jak to chodí (know the ropes), vyznat se (know the ropes, own up), vìdìt co a jak (know the ropes), umìt se orientovat (know the ropes). (various references)

Danish

tovvaerk (cordage). (various references)

Dutch

want (as, because, for, since), touwwerk (cordage). (various references)

French

cordages, cordage (rope). (various references)

German

Seile (tightropes). (various references)

Greek 

σχοινιά (cordage). (various references)

Hebrew 

להיות מנוסה (know the ropes), להיות בקי ב- (be familiar with, get around, know one's stuff, know the ropes), להתמצא (be familiar with, find one's way, know the ropes, orient oneself, orientate), לדעת כל הכניסות ויציאות (know the ropes). (various references)

Hungarian

szorító (clamp, collar, dog, gripping, nipping, prise ring, prize ring, stressful), ring (to feather, to rock, to roll, to slew, to slue), bokszring. (various references)

Italian

corde (tightropes), cordami, cordame (cordage, ropework). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

骨法 (knack, the ropes), 骨を覚える (to get the knack, to learn the ropes). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

こつをおぼえる (to get the knack, to learn the ropes), こっぽう (knack, the ropes). (various references)

Manx

teaddyn. (various references)

Pig Latin

opesray.(various references)

Portuguese

cordame (raggery, rigging, rope). (various references)

Romanian

a-şi da aere (attitudinize, be on the high horse, be on the high ropes, cut a dash, feel one's oats, give oneself airs, look big, put on airs, ride the high horse). (various references)

Russian 

снасти (cordage, tackle). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

utroba ptica, konopci. (various references)

Spanish

soga (robe, rope, stretcher, tightrope), maroma (hawser, rope), cabos. (various references)

Swedish

tågvirke (cordage, rope). (various references)

Turkish

yol yordam bilmek (know the ropes). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words ending with "ROPES": allotropes, azeotropes, boltropes, dragropes, footropes, gropes, heliotropes, hyperopes, lycanthropes, manropes, misanthropes, phalaropes, pyropes, tightropes, towropes, tropes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"ROPES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arope, Oropos, Oropus, Repse, rhoplex, Roope, ropa, rophe, ropic, ropies, roppou, Rops, Rouppe, roups, rposes, rps, rupas, rupels, rupus, rvps. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pores, poser, prose, repos, spore.

-1 letter: epos, eros, opes, ores, peso, pore, pose, pros, repo, reps, roes, rope, rose, sore.

-2 letters: ers, oes, ope, ops, ore, ors, ose, per, pes, pro, rep, res, roe, ser, sop.

-3 letters: er, es, oe, op, or, os, pe, re, so.

+1 letter: copers, corpse, dopers, ephors, gropes, hopers, lopers, mopers, operas, osprey, pareos, pedros, person, poiser, pokers, polers, porose, posers, poseur, posher, poster, powers, presto, probes, proems, proles, prosed, proser, proses, proves, rebops, repose, repots, repros, respot, ropers, sloper, soaper, splore, spored, spores, stoper, topers, tropes, uprose.

+2 letters: apposer, boppers, coopers, copiers, coppers, copters, corpses, crepons, croupes, deports, deposer, dorpers, elopers, esparto, exports, exposer, forceps, gophers, gropers, hoopers, hoppers, imposer, leprose, leprosy, leprous, loopers, loppers, moppers, oosperm, oospore, openers, operons, operose, opposer, oppress, orpines, ospreys, oversup, paroles, pelorus, periods, perrons, persona, persons, petrols, petrous, plessor, plexors, plovers, plowers, poisers, polders, pollers, ponders, poorest, poppers, porches, porgies, porkers, porkies, porters, poseurs, postern, posters, posture, pothers, potters, potzers, pourers, pouters, powders, powters, preshow, presoak, presold, presong, presort, pressor, prestos, pretors, probers, process, profess, profuse, projets, prolegs, promise, propels, propers, propose, prosect, prosers, prosier, prosper, prosses, prossie, prostie, proteas, protest, proteus, provers, prowess, prowest, proxies, purpose, pyrones, pyropes, recoups, redtops, reopens, replots, repolls, reports, reposal, reposed, reposer, reposes, reposit, repours, respoke, respond, respots, riposte, rompers, ropiest, saprobe, scooper, seaport, semipro, serpigo, shopper, slopers, snooper, soapers, soapier, soppier, soupier, splores, spoiler, sponger, spoofer, spoored, sported, sporter, sporule, spotter, spouter, stomper, stooper, stopers, stopper, strophe, supremo, swooper, thorpes, toppers, trompes, troupes, uphroes, uprouse.