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Definition: Rope |
RopeNoun1. A strong cord. Verb1. Catch with a lasso; "rope cows". 2. Fasten with a rope; "rope the bag securely". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rope" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long. It has been largely superseded by a more complex electrical device worn upon another part of the person; and this is rapidly giving place to an apparatus known as the preachment. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Aerospace | Code name for window, sense 2. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A textile product not less than 4 mm diameter, generally consisting of three or four strands cabled or plaited together, with or without a core. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The rope on which the netting is fixed. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Rope The Brahmin teaches that "whoever hangs himself will wander eternally with a rope round his neck." (Asiatic Researches.) Rope To fight with a rope round one's neck. To fight with a certainty of being hanged unless you conquer. "You must send in a large force; ... for as he fights with a rope round his neck, he will struggle to the last."- Kingston: The Three Admirals. viii. To give one rope enough. To permit a person to continue in wrong-doing, till he reaps the consequences. Rope You carry a rope in your pocket (French). Said of a person very lucky at cards, from the superstition that a bit of rope with which a man has been hanged, carried in the pocket, secures luck at cards. "You have no occupation?' said the Bench, inquiringly, to a vagabond at the bar. `Beg your worship's was the rejoinder: `I deal in bits of halter for the use of gentlemen as plays." - The Times (French correspondent). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Military & Defense | An element of chaff consisting of a long roll of metallic foil or wire which is designed for broad, low-frequency responses. Source: European Union. (references) |
Sports & Leisure | Generally speaking, however, bouts take place in a "ring" which is 20 to 24 ft. square and surrounded by three stands of --. Source: European Union. (references) |
Weather | A narrow, often contorted condensation funnel usually associated with the decaying stage of a tornado. See rope stage. (or Rope Funnel). (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Rope (1948), an Alfred Hitchcock film inspired by the real-life murder of a young boy in 1924 by two college students named Leopold and Loeb. Two brilliant students (John Dall and Farley Granger) plan the perfect murder after an ill-advised lecture by their headmaster (James Stewart) on the art of murder. They strangle a classmate and hide his body in a chest in their apartment, whereupon they throw a party for the victim's family and others from the school, thus, they believe, demonstrating their superiority. When Stewart realizes at the end that his two former students have indeed murdered, he is horrified -- and ashamed of his own rhetoric.
Hitchcock was both producer and director. Except for the 1932 film Lord Camber's Ladies, which was Hitchcock's only association with that film, Rope is the first movie for which Hitchcock receives a credit as producer (he was the uncredited producer on Number 13, Suspicion and Notorious.)
The film of Rope employed numerous innovations:
Hitchcock filmed each scene in segments lasting up to ten minutes (the length of a reel of film at the time), each segment continuously panning from character to character in real time. Several segments end by panning against or zooming into an object (a man's jacket, or the back of a piece of furniture, for example) or by having an actor move in front of the camera, blocking the entire screen; each scene after that starts a static shot of that same object. In this way Hitchcock effectively masked some (but not all) of the cuts in the film.
- This was Hitchcock's first color film.
- It was shot on a single set.
- Each shot ran continuously for up to ten minutes without interruption. Camera moves were planned in advance and there was almost no editing.
(This technique has been used frequently since to "hide" edits, for instance in the Eagle-Eye Cherry music video "Save Tonight," and also in Steven Soderbergh's film Erin Brockovich: Julia Roberts appears to get into a car, drive down the street, and get hit by another car, but in fact the camera lingers behind on the road after she leaves, and at that point the film cuts).
Although it is commonly believed that all the cuts in Rope are hidden, in fact, only half are. Another misconception is that all the shots last ten minutes. Actually, of the ten shots used for the film, only three approach or exceed the ten minute mark. Five of the shots range between seven and eight minutes, and the penultimate and final shots last only about four-and-a-half and five-and-a-half minutes, respectively. A description of the beginning and end of each reel follows, with the approximate duration of the shot given in parentheses.
Two other films, Compulsion and Swoon, were also based on the Leopold and Loeb case.
- R1 CU strangulation to Blackout on Brandon's back. (9:34)
- R2 Black, pan off Brandon's back to CU Kenneth: "What do you mean?" (7:51)
- R3 Unmasked cut, men crossing to Janet to Blackout on Kenneth's back. (7:18)
- R4 Black, pan off Kenneth's back to CU Phillip: "That's a lie." (7:08)
- R5 Unmasked cut, CU Rupert to Blackout on Brandon's back. (9:57)
- R6 Black, pan off Brandon's back to Three shot. (7:33)
- R7 Unmasked cut, Mrs. Wilson: "Pardon me, sir."to Blackout on Brandon.(7:46)
- R8 Black, pan off Brandon to CU Brandon's hand in gun pocket. (10:06)
- R9 Unmasked cut, CU Rupert to Blackout on lid of chest. (4:37)
- R10 Black, pan up from lid of chest to End. (5:38)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Alfred Hitchcock's Rope."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A rope is a length of fibers woven together to improve strength. It has tensile strength but is too flexible to provide compressive strength (i.e., it can be used for pulling, not pushing). Common materials for rope include: manila, hemp, hair, nylon, and steel. Rope has been an important element in construction work since prehistoric times. Today, wires have supplanted rope in heavy construction and industrial applications because of higher tensile strength. Rope remains instrumental in activities as sailing and climbing.In order to fasten ropes, a large number of knots are used. Some rope material, like hemp, is stronger when wet with water.
A pulley is used to convert the pulling force to another direction. Winches and capstans are machines designed to pull ropes.
Styles of rope construction
Ropes used for climbing can be divided into two categories: dynamic ropes and static ropes. Static ropes have very low stretch properties, they are used for carrying equipment, hauling equipment, and attaching pieces of equipment together. Dynamic ropes are stretchy; being stretchy is crucial in order to limit the maximum force experienced by a climber that falls when using one (and also the maximum force experienced by any piece of gear securing the climber to the rock or ice). The main ropes (called "lead ropes" when the climber is leading) that a climber uses are dynamic.
Climbing ropes are generally made from nylon and have kern mantle construction. There is a core, kern, of long twisted fibres in the middle, and an outer sheath, mantle, of woven coloured fibres. The kern provides most of the strength, the mantle protects the kern and generally affects the handling of the rope (how easy it is to hold, to tie knots in, and so on). Dynamic ropes are made by chopping the fibres in the kern to make them shorter which makes the rope more stretchy.
How to handle rope
Rope made from hemp or nylon should be stored in a cool dry place. It should be coiled and not twisted. If rope is found to be fraying you can melt some wax onto the end or in the case of nylon rope just melt the end so it fuses together. For fibre rope, fixing frayed ends can be more difficult. A strong cotton should be used to lash the end together; this will help the end from coming apart again and make tying knots easier. If a load-bearing rope gets a sharp or sudden jolt or shows signs of deteriorating the rope should be replaced immediately and should be discarded or only used for non-load-bearing tasks.
See also
- Alfred Hitchcock's Rope
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rope."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| Ropamat | English | Rope Automat | Mechanical Engineering, Engineering & Technology |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: RopeSynonyms: lasso (v), leash (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Breadth, Thickness | Thick, dumpy, squab, squat, thickset; thick as a rope. |
Coherence | Noun: nonadhesion; immiscibility; incoherence; looseness; Adjective: laxity; relaxation; loosening; Verb: freedom; disjunction; rope of sand. |
Connection | Bond, tendon, tendril; fiber; cord, cordage; riband, ribbon, rope, guy, cable, line, halser, hawser, painter, moorings, wire, chain; string; (filament). |
Difficulty | Reduced to straits; hard pressed, sorely pressed; run hard; pinched, put to it, straitened; hard up, hard put to it, hard set; put to one's shifts; puzzled, at a loss; (uncertain); at the end of one's tether, at the end of one's rope, at one's wit's end, at a nonplus, at a standstill; graveled, nonplused, nonplussed, stranded, aground; stuck fast, set fast; up a tree, at bay, aux abois, driven into a corner, driven from pillar to post, driven to extremity, driven to one's wit's end, driven to the wall; au bout de son Latin; out of one's depth; thrown out. |
Filament | Wire, string, thread, packthread, cotton, sewing silk, twine, twist, whipcord, tape, ribbon, cord, rope, yarn, hemp, oakum, jute. |
Freedom | Scope, range, play; free play, full play, free scope, full scope; free stage and no favor; swing, full swing, elbowroom, margin, rope, wide berth; Liberty Hall. |
Impossibility | Attempt impossibilities; square the circle, wash a blackamoor white; skin a flint; make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, make bricks without straw; have nothing to go upon; weave a rope of sand, build castles in the air, prendre la lune avec les dents, extract sunbeams from cucumbers, set the Thames on fire, milk a he-goat into a sieve, catch a weasel asleep, rompre l'anguille au genou, be in two places at once. |
Instrument | Hammer; (impulse); edge tool; (cut); borer; vice, teeth; (hold); nail, rope; (join); peg; (hang); support; spoon; (vehicle); arms; oar; (navigation); cardiograph, recapper, snowplow, tenpenny, votograph. |
Laxity | Verb: be -lax; Adjective: laisser faire, laisser aller; hold a loose rein; give the reins to, give rope enough, give a loose to; tolerate; relax; misrule. |
Scourge | Scaffold; block, ax, guillotine; stake; cross; gallows, gibbet, tree, drop, noose, rope, halter, bowstring; death chair, electric chair; gas chamber; lethal injection; firing squad; mecate. |
Weakness | Reed, thread, rope of sand, house of cards. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Looked like a hunk of rope. And you had wires on your teeth and glasses and everything (On the Waterfront; writing credit: Budd Schulberg.) She makes me feel kinda funny, like when we used to climb the rope in gym-class (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers) I am just about at the end of my rope with you. (Steel Magnolias; writing credit: Robert Harling) The rope's just like everything else, I found the rope, and I did it, the same way I can read and write and shuffle a deck of cards (The Bourne Identity; writing credit: Tony Gilroy) Next time I won't throw you the rope. (The Enemy Below; writing credit: Wendell Mayes. Based on the novel by D.A. Rayner.) | |
Lyrics | You're holding the rope and I'm taking the fall (Loser; performing artist: 3 Doors Down) Boy You Need To Tie This Rope (Rock the Boat; performing artist: Aaliyah) Like a soap on a rope, (Extra Ordinary; performing artist: Better Than Ezra) Cut loose from this rope (If My Heart Had Wings; performing artist: Faith Hill) I could not thread the rope (Do Right; performing artist: Jimmie's Chicke Shack) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Rope Trick (1967) The Lace Rope (1963) Rope of Sand (1949) Three on a Rope (1938) Red Rope (1937) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | William M. Scaife Ready to cross Twin Glacier Bill Scaife with rope. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Ready to rope up prior to crossing Twin Glacier William Scaife with rope Triangulation party of William M. Scaife. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Tuna purse seiner is deploying net with assistance of workboat which is seen at far end of net near horizon on upper right of picture. The boat appears as a small rectangle behind a vertical rope. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Pole and line fishing. Man in foreground is throwing live bait in water to keep school of tuna around the boat. Man with hose is spraying water to keep tuna from noticing boat. Lines in upper left lead to pulley system. When large fish is hooked, a man pulls on rope to pull fishing pole vertical which brings fish to side of boat for gaffing. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | "Rope" or decay stage of tornado. During "Sound Chase", a joint project of NSSL and Mississippi State University. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). |  | Diver disentangling rope from regulator while getting ready to lay a transect line. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
 | Attaching 1/4 square meter grid to pipes by rope. The method did not work and eventually a hole was drilled in the four corners of the grid area, a stainless steel screw was attached, and nylon string was strung between the four corners. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | Diagram depicting depth of water as related to angle and scope of dredge rope for operations conducted off the United States Fish Commission Steamer ALBATROSS . Cut 68 in: "Deep-sea exploration : A General Description of the Steamer ALBATROSS, Her Appliances and Methods," by Zera L. Tanner. 1897. NOAA Central Library Call No. VM453 .T36 1897 . Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Plate 32. The forward side of the dredge reel and its engine. The reel having on it 2700 fathoms of the steel rope recommended by Professor Alexander Agassiz. In: "Deep-sea Sounding and Dredging" by Charles D. Sigsbee, 1880. Library Call Number GC75.S53 1880. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | HH-53 - Pararescuemen "Fast Rope". |
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| "On the Rope 1" by Patrick Nijhuis Commentary: "Get it Roped." | "Rope a dope" by Christo Pacheco Commentary: "Shipyard workers in Newport News, VA, USA." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Francois Rabelais | Go hang yourselves [critics]... you shall never want rope enough. |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt | When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. |
Marilyn Von Savant | Skill is successfully walking a tight rope strung between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Intelligence is not trying. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The hearse stops, the bearers tie a rope around your coffin and let you down |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The furniture had been hustled out through the front garden which was strewn with wisps of straw and rope ends and into the huge vans at the gate |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | They walked to the tent, tarpaulin spread over a rope. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Flimnap, the Treasurer, is allowed to cut a caper on the straight rope, at least an inch higher than any other lord in the whole empire |
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Civil Liberties | Switzerland | The Graubunden cantonal police deny any involvement in the death and said the man hung himself with a self-made rope of fabric. (references) |
Human Rights | Ukraine | Detainees also were subjected to a method called the "monument," in which a prisoner is suspended by his hands on a rope and beaten. (references) |
Swaziland | According to unofficial reports, police also still used the Kentucky method of interrogation in which the arms and legs of suspects are bent and tied together with rope or chain, then the person is beaten. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SHERIFF, n. In America the chief executive office of a country, whose most characteristic duties, in some of the Western and Southern States, are the catching and hanging of rogues. John Elmer Pettibone Cajee (I write of him with little glee) Was just as bad as he could be. 'Twas frequently remarked: "I swon! The sun has never looked upon So bad a man as Neighbor John." A sinner through and through, he had This added fault: it made him mad To know another man was bad. In such a case he thought it right To rise at any hour of night And quench that wicked person's light. Despite the town's entreaties, he Would hale him to the nearest tree And leave him swinging wide and free. Or sometimes, if the humor came, A luckless wight's reluctant frame Was given to the cheerful flame. While it was turning nice and brown, All unconcerned John met the frown Of that austere and righteous town. "How sad," his neighbors said, "that he So scornful of the law should be -- An anar c, h, i, s, t." (That is the way that they preferred To utter the abhorrent word, So strong the aversion that it stirred.) "Resolved," they said, continuing, "That Badman John must cease this thing Of having his unlawful fling. "Now, by these sacred relics" -- here Each man had out a souvenir Got at a lynching yesteryear -- "By these we swear he shall forsake His ways, nor cause our hearts to ache By sins of rope and torch and stake. "We'll tie his red right hand until He'll have small freedom to fulfil The mandates of his lawless will." So, in convention then and there, They named him Sheriff. The affair Was opened, it is said, with prayer. J. Milton Sloluck |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Art Linkletter | Nope. I love the lecture platform. I love the question and answers. It's there. You're walking on a rope again. |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | When one rope was cut, a Ranger would grab another and begin his climb again. |
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| "Rope" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.75% of the time. "Rope" is used about 1,573 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.75% | 1,569 | 5,257 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.19% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.06% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,573 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Japan | Tokyo Rope Mfg. Co., Ltd. | South Korea | Man Ho Rope & Wire Limited |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "rope": a rope of onions ♦ back rope ♦ bailing rope ♦ be at the and of one's rope ♦ be at the end of one's rope ♦ bell rope ♦ Boat rope ♦ bow rope ♦ cable laid rope ♦ Cart rope ♦ climbing rope ♦ combination rope ♦ combined rope ♦ Drag rope ♦ fibre rope handling gear ♦ Flat rope ♦ Gift rope ♦ give smb. rope ♦ Guess rope ♦ Guest rope ♦ Guide rope ♦ guy rope ♦ hanging rope ♦ hangman's rope ♦ haul rope ♦ head rope ♦ hemp rope ♦ Holy rope ♦ Jaw rope ♦ jump rope ♦ jumping rope ♦ Leech rope ♦ Limber rope ♦ lower down on a rope ♦ lower oneself down on a rope ♦ money for old rope ♦ mooring rope ♦ moornig rope ♦ name not the rope where one has hanged himself ♦ pass a rope round ♦ picket rope ♦ plenty of rope ♦ purse rope ♦ recovery rope ♦ ridge rope ♦ rope band ♦ rope barrel * ♦ rope bridge ♦ rope burn ♦ rope dancer ♦ rope down ♦ rope drum * ♦ rope in ♦ rope ladder ♦ rope maker ♦ rope marks ♦ rope mat ♦ rope of pearls ♦ rope of sand ♦ rope off ♦ rope pump ♦ rope railway ♦ rope together ♦ rope tow ♦ rope transmission ♦ rope trawl ♦ rope up ♦ rope walker ♦ rope way ♦ rope wing trawl ♦ rope yard ♦ rope yarn ♦ run a rope round a tree ♦ skip rope ♦ skipping rope ♦ slip rope ♦ stretch a rope between two trees ♦ tail rope ♦ take up the slack in a rope ♦ thick as a rope ♦ Tiller rope ♦ To back a rope ♦ To dance on a rope ♦ To give one rope ♦ To parcel a rope ♦ To point a rope ♦ To shorten a rope ♦ to snub a rope ♦ tow rope ♦ towing rope ♦ traction rope ♦ Trail rope ♦ wain rope ♦ weave a rope of sand ♦ wheel rope ♦ white rope ♦ wire rope. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "rope": rope-anchored, rope-assisted, rope-biting, rope-bridge, rope-burn, rope-burned, rope-chaff, rope-dancing, rope-drawn, rope-drive, rope-drum, rope-end, rope-ends, rope-fringed, rope-hauled, rope-knot, rope-ladder, rope-lead, rope-light, rope-lights, rope-like, rope-maker, rope-makers, rope-making, rope-race, rope-scarred, rope-soled, rope-soloed, rope-top, rope-topped, rope-twist, rope-walk, rope-walks, rope-way, rope-worked, Rope-yarn. | |
Ending with "rope": bell-rope, skipping-rope, top-rope, tow-rope. | |
Containing "rope": tight-rope dancer. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
rope | 2,427 | frozen rope | 78 |
jump rope | 465 | rope splicing | 75 |
climbing rope | 448 | rope sandal | 73 |
rope light | 394 | skipping rope | 67 |
rope bondage | 379 | rope swing | 66 |
rock climbing rope | 348 | jump rope rhyme | 62 |
rope ladder | 309 | nylon rope | 61 |
wire rope | 200 | against rope | 55 |
rope bag | 167 | rope rescue | 52 |
rope lighting | 167 | jump rope song | 52 |
rope course | 153 | hemp rope | 51 |
wire rope hoist | 153 | rope ladders | 51 |
velvet rope | 147 | rope halter | 49 |
rope hammock | 130 | rope horse | 46 |
rope and gray | 116 | soap on a rope | 44 |
top rope | 115 | new england rope | 43 |
chinese jump rope | 104 | splice rope | 43 |
rope knots | 99 | jump rope exercise | 42 |
japanese rope bondage | 94 | stainless steel wire rope | 40 |
jumping rope | 91 | rope bridge | 40 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "rope"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | var (dangle, drape, hang, hang up, hook, string up, suspend), tërkuzë, pe (ligature, thread), litar (cable, halyard, hanging, lasher, lashing, line, tack, tether), lidh me (gear to), kavo (cable, dragline), kap me litar, i hedh lakun (lasso), cimë (hawser), ballamar (painter). (various references) | |
Arabic | فتل (curl, kink, lay, torque, torsion, twiddle, twine, twist), قيد (bind, bond, bridle, chain, check, confine, derestrict, enchain, entry, fetter, handcuff, hold back, impose restrictions on, item, limit, limitation, manacle, qualify, record, register, restrain, restrict, restriction, set bounds to, set down, shackle, tie, tie up), وقع في ورطة (cook), حزم (bind, bunch, bundle, decide, determination, dogmatise, firmness, hardness, packing, parcel, resolution, sheaf, sling, stack, strap, truss), حبل حمل (gestation), حبل المشنقة (halter, string), حبل (bond, cord, fall, inseminate, pregnancy, tether, twist), حبال (bonds, sling), أطلق العنان (unbridle, unbridled), ربط (attach, attachment, bind, connect, couple, faster, hitch, interface, involve, join, knit, knitting, lash, lash down, ligature, link, moor, relate, secure, set, slur, strap, swaddle, tether, tying, unite). (various references) | |
Basque | soka (cord). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хващам с ласо, въже (laniard, lanyard, line), венец (chaplet, felloe, gum, hoop, rim, wreath), влача с въжета, наниз (beads, concatenation, strand, string), завързвам с въжета, завързвам с въже (halter, lariat, reeve, rope up), луга (lye, saltwort), ласо (lariat, lasso, noose), бесилка (gallows, gallows tree, gibbet, tree), провлачвам се (drag on), плитка (braid, cue, pigtail, plait, plat, queue). (various references) | |
Catalan | corda (cord, string). (various references) | |
Chinese | 繩索 , 繩 , 綆 (well-rope), 绳索. (various references) | |
Czech | provaz (cord, line, split), lano (cable, guy, tight-rope, twist). (various references) | |
Danish | snor (cord, string), reb (cord, string). (various references) | |
Dutch | touw (cord, string), snoer (conductor, conduit, cord, line, necklace, string), lijn (cast, ganging, gangion, lashing, line, main line, rule, scan, snell, snood, trace, transmission line), koorde (cord, string), koord (cord, string). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ŝnuro (cord, string). (various references) | |
Faeroese | band (binding, bond, cord, ribbon, string, strip, tape, tie). (various references) | |
Farsi | طناب (Line, Reeve, Tow), ریسمان (Chord, Cord, Line, String, Thread, Warp), رسن (Cord, Line, Sling), باطناب بستن (Bight, Trice), بشکل طناب درامدن . (various references) | |
Finnish | köysi (cord, line, string). (various references) | |
French | corde, cordage (hanging rope, ropes, roping), câble (wire rope). (various references) | |
Frisian | tou (cord, string). (various references) | |
German | Seil (cable, cord, high-wire, string, tightrope, wire), Tau (cable, dew, hawser, lashing), Strick (cord, halter, string), Strang (cord, hank, ply, skein, strand, string, trace, tug), Leine (cord, lead, leash, line, sheet, string), Reep. (various references) | |
Greek | σκοινί. (various references) | |
Hebrew | חבל (cord, it's a pity, line, tie). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kötél (cord, crab, strand, string, tether, tie, twist), kötélzet (knittle, knittle-stuff, nettle, rig, rigging). (various references) | |
Icelandic | taug (cord, nerve, string). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tali (chord, lace, lasso, string). (various references) | |
Irish | théad, téad (cord, spiderweb, string). (various references) | |
Italian | cavo (cabel, cable, concave, hawser, hollow, robe, sunken, tightrope, trunk, wire), corda (chord, cord, line, string). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 綱, 余裕 (allowance, composure, margin, room, scope, surplus, time). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ロープ , なわ (hemp), さくじょう (cable), さく (a harvest, a work, cord, crossout, curtail, fence, last, paling, pare, plan, plane, policy, reduce, scrape off, sharpen, shave, to alienate, to avoid, to bloom, to cede, to cleave, to cut up, to divide, to separate, to sever, to spare, to split, to tear, whittle, yesterday), つな, ほそびき (cord, hempen cord), ザイル , よゆう (allowance, composure, margin, room, scope, surplus, time). (various references) | |
Korean | 밧줄. (various references) | |
Malay | tampar (cord, string), tali (cord, string). (various references) | |
Manx | thow (buoy rope, line, painter), teaddey, tead (cable, guy, line, loose rope, string), kiangley lesh teaddyn, coyrd (chord, cord, cord of wood, line). (various references) | |
Maya | haax (rope maker). (various references) | |
Norwegian | tau (cord, string), reip (cord, round, string). (various references) | |
Occitan | còrda (cord). (various references) | |
Papago | wijina. (various references) | |
Papiamen | liña (cord, string), kabuya (cord, string). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | operay.(various references) | |
Polish | sznur (cord, string). (various references) | |
Portuguese | corda (chord, clothes line, cord, gimp, guy, hackle, halter, line, spring, string, tie, twine), cabo (bight, cable, cape, cord, corporal, end, flex, foreland, gripe, guy, hand, handle, helve, hilt, hokum, hook, hub, knob, leg pull, naze, non-com, non-commissioned officer, preventer, stock, tail). (various references) | |
Romanian | viscozitate formata în un lichid, tachelaj (cordage), parâmã (cable, hawser, lashing, line, tow-line rope), odgon (cable), moarte prin spânzurãtoare (halter), lega cu funie, lega cu frânghie (lace), lega cu corzi, funie (cord, halter, line, tie), frânghie (cable, cord, line), deveni vâscos, curmei, coardã (chord, cord, skipping rope, span, string, vein, wire), şirag (string), şir (catena, catenation, column, course, file, line, pack, queue, range, rank, row, series, string, succession, train). (various references) | |
Russian | веревка (coil, cord, lashing, line, string, tie). (various references) | |
Scottish | ròpa, tobha (a rope). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vezati užetom, uhvatiti lasom, uže (cable, strop, tack, trace, twine), prevariti (bamboozle, beguile, bilk, cheat, chicane, chisel, chouse, circumvent, con, deceive, diddle, double cross, flimflam, fool, get round, gyp, hoodwink, mulct, rook, rope in, screw, set up, skunk, stick, string along, take in, trick, victimize), laso (lariat, lasso), konopac (cord, line, tether), kanap (packthread, string, twine). (various references) | |
Spanish | cuerda (chanterelle, chord, chorda, cord, guy, lead, line, pull, string, tether), soga (robe, stretcher, tightrope), cabo (cable, Cape, Corporal, end, ply, point, sergeant, serjeant, stub, stump, tag, tag end, tail, termination, tip). (various references) | |
Sranan | titey (cord, string). (various references) | |
Swahili | uzi (cord, string). (various references) | |
Swedish | rep (cord, lashing, strand, string), lina (cord, line, string, wire). (various references) | |
Tagalog | lúbid (cord, string). (various references) | |
Thai | เชือก (band, cord, lacing, tie), มัดด้วยเชือก (tie up). (various references) | |
Turkish | urgan (tether), sicim (cord, ficelle, string, twine), kementle yakalamak (lasso, noose, rope in), kement (halter, lariat, lasso, longe, noose), ipe dizilmiş şeyler, ipe çekme (gallows, halter, hanging), ip ip olmak, ip (cord, halter, lanyard, lap, string, tether, tightrope, twist), içeceğin yapışkan oluşumu, hareket serbestliği (free swing), hareket özgürlüğü (free hand, free swing), halatla bağlamak, halat (hawser, lanyard, lap, lashing, line), dizi (battery, chain, cluster, course, cycle, order, progression, queue, range, rank, round, row, sequence, serial, series, set, string, tier, train), bağlamak (affiliate, assign, attach, attribute, band, bandage, belay, bend, bind, bond, brace, braid, clasp, colligate, concatenate, conjoin, connect, copulate, cord, couple, do up, engage, enthral, enthrall, fasten, fasten up, fix, fixate, grapple, guy, hitch, hook on, hook up, infix, interconnect, interlink, interlock, inthral, join, knit, knit together, knit up, knot, lace, lace up, lash, lash down, leash, ligature, link, link up, lock, lock up, mediatize, oblige, put through, rivet, settle, string, subordinate, switch to, tether, tie, tie down, tie up, truss, unite, Wed). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tanap (cable). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | тягти на вірьовці, канат (cable, sling), вірьовка (bast, lariat, lashing, string), в'язка (band, bunch, bundle, truss), заманювати (allure, bait, entice, tempt, wile), ловити арканом, прив'язувати (bind, hitch, tackle, tether, tie down, tie on, tie up). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | làm ra vẻ ta đây (dog), khinh khỉnh phát khùng, dây thừng, ảo giác (hallucination). (various references) | |
Welsh | rhaff (cord, string). (various references) | |
Yucatec | suum (cord, lasso, string). (various references) | |
Zulu | intambo (cord, string). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | dim, ee, gu, kiri. (various references) |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | trikhia. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | funis. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | line. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | capulum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 27, Verse 32 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Tote oi stratiwtai apekoyan ta scoinia thV skafhV kai eiasan authn ekpesein |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Tunc absciderunt milites funes scaphae et passi sunt eam excidere |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thanne knyytis kittiden awei the cordis of the litil boot, and suffriden it to falle awei. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Then the soudiers cut of the rope of the bote and let it fall awaye. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Then the armed men, cutting the cords of the boat, let her go. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Acts Chapter 27, Verse 32 |
| Albanian | Atëherë ushtarët i prenë litarët e sandallit dhe e lanë të bjerë jashtë. |
| Cebuano | Busa giputol sa mga sundalo ang mga pisi sa bote ug gipasagdan kini nga ianud. |
| Croatian | Nato vojnici presjekoše užad èamca i pustiše da padne. |
| Danish | Da kappede Stridsmændene Bådens Tove og lode den falde ned. |
| Dutch | Toen hieuwen de krijgsknechten de touwen af van de boot, en lieten haar vallen. |
| Finnish | Silloin sotamiehet hakkasivat poikki venheen köydet ja päästivät sen menemään. |
| French | Alors les soldats coupèrent les cordes de la chaloupe, et la laissèrent tomber. |
| German | Da hieben die Kriegsknechte die Stricke ab von dem Kahn und ließen ihn fallen. |
| Hungarian | Akkor a vitézek elvágák a csolnak köteleit, és ki hagyák esni azt. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Oleh sebab itu prajurit-prajurit itu memotong tali sekoci itu, sehingga sekoci itu hanyut. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Lalu segala laskar itu pun mengerat tali sampan itu dan membiarkan hanyut. |
| Latvian | Tad kareivji pârcirta laivas virves un ïâva tai nokrist. |
| Maori | Katahi ka tapahia nga whakaheke o te poti e nga hoia, a tukua ana kia taka atu. |
| Norwegian | Da kappet krigsfolket taugene på båten og lot den falle. |
| Portuguese | Então os soldados cortaram os cabos do batel e o deixaram cair. |
| Rumanian | Atunci ostawii au tqiat funiile luntrii, wi au lqsat -o sq cadq jos. |
| Russian | фПЗДБ ЧПЙОЩ ПФУЕЛМЙ ЧЕТЕЧЛЙ Х МПДЛЙ, Й ПОБ ХРБМБ. |
| Shuar | Tutai suntarsha uchich Kanú chapikrin tsupirkar Entsá ajunkarmiayi. |
| Spanish | Entonces los soldados cortaron las amarras del esquife y dejaron que se perdiera. |
| Swahili | Hapo wale askari walizikata kamba zilizokuwa zimeshikilia ule mtumbwi, wakauacha uchukuliwe na maji. |
| Swedish | Då höggo krigsmännen av de tåg som höllo skeppsbåten, och läto den fara. |
| Uma | Toe pai' tantara mpobintohi potoe sakaya to kedi', alaa-na sakaya toe monawu' hi tahi' pai' ma'anu'. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rope": roped, ropedancer, ropedancers, ropedancing, ropedancings, ropelike, roper, roperies, ropers, ropery, ropes, ropewalk, ropewalker, ropewalkers, ropewalks, ropeway, ropeways, ropey. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "rope": allotrope, azeotrope, boltrope, dragrope, footrope, grope, heliotrope, hyperope, lycanthrope, manrope, misanthrope, phalarope, pyrope, tightrope, towrope, trope. (additional references) | |
Words containing "rope": acropetal, acropetally, allotropes, azeotropes, bipropellant, bipropellants, boltropes, dragropes, footropes, groped, groper, gropers, gropes, heliotropes, hydroperoxide, hydroperoxides, hyperopes, improper, improperly, improperness, impropernesses, interoperabilities, interoperability, interoperable, interoperative, interoperatives, lycanthropes, manropes, misanthropes, monopropellant, monopropellants, neuropeptide, neuropeptides, overoperate, overoperated, overoperates, overoperating, phalaropes, propel, propellant, propellants, propelled, propellent, propellents, propeller, propellers, propelling, propellor, propellors, propels, propend. (additional references) | |
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"Rope" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arope, erupe, fope, frope, gope, Mrcpe, nrpo, Orapa, Oropou, orp, Orpa, orphee, raphe, rappe, repe, repex, rfp, rhoplex, rhp, rohe, roip, roje, rolp, rooe, Roope, rop, ropa, ropay, rophe, ropic, Ropp, roppou, Rops, roqe, rore, rospo, Rouppe, roxe, rp, Rpe, rrp, Rspce, Ruapehu, rupe, Rupel, rupen, rupf. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rope" (pronounced rō"p) |
| 3 | r ō" p | grope. |
| 2 | -ō" p | cope, dope, elope, hope, lope, mope, nope, pope, scope, slope, soap, tope. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pore, repo. | |
| Words within the letters "e-o-p-r" | |
-1 letter: ope, ore, per, pro, rep, roe. | |
-2 letters: er, oe, op, or, pe, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-o-p-r" | |
+1 letter: coper, doper, ephor, grope, hoper, loper, moper, opera, pareo, pedro, poker, poler, pored, pores, poser, power, probe, proem, prole, prone, prose, prove, rebop, repos, repot, repro, roped, roper, ropes, ropey, spore, toper, trope. | |
+2 letters: bopper, cooper, copers, copier, copper, copter, corpse, crepon, croupe, deport, dopers, dopier, dorper, eloper, ephori, ephors, export, gopher, groped, groper, gropes, hooper, hopers, hopper, looper, lopers, lopper, mopers, mopery, mopier, mopper, opener, operas, operon, orpine, osprey, pareos, parole, pedros, pereon, period, peroxy, perron, person, petrol, plexor, plover, plower, poetry, poiser, pokers, pokier, polder, polers, poller, ponder, poorer, popery, popper, porker, porose, ported, porter, posers, poseur, posher, poster, pother, potter, potzer, poured, pourer, pouter, powder, powers, powter, presto, pretor, probed, prober, probes, proems, projet, proleg, proles, propel, proper, prosed, proser, proses, protea, protei, proved, proven, prover, proves, prower, pyrone, pyrope, rebops, recopy, recoup, redtop, reopen, replot, repoll, report, repose, repots, repour, repros, respot, romped, romper, ropers, ropery, ropier, rouped, roupet, sloper, soaper, splore, spored, spores, stoper, thorpe, topers, topper, trompe, tropes, troupe, upbore, uphroe, uprose, uptore. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Names: Company Usage 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Bible Trace | 21. Abbreviations 22. Acronyms 23. Derivations 24. Rhymes | 25. Anagrams 26. Bibliography |
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