rope

English

/ɹəʊp/, /ɹoʊp/

noun
Definitions
  • (uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
  • (countable) An individual length of such material.
  • A cohesive strand of something.
  • (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.
  • (Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.
  • (jewelry) A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.
  • (nautical) Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
  • (archaic) A unit of length equal to 20 feet.
  • (slang) Flunitrazepam, also known as Rohypnol.
  • (slang) A shot of semen that a man releases during ejaculation.
  • (in the plural) The small intestines.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English rope inherited from Old English rāp (rope, cord, band, cable, strap) inherited from Proto-Germanic *raipaz (rope, cord, band, strap, string, ringlet) derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₁roypnós (rope, strap, band).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*h₁roypnós

Gloss

rope, strap, band

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縄, 綱

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