| rope |  | |
| 1. subst. 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. | |
| 2. subst. An individual length of such material. | |
| The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes. | |
| 3. subst. A cohesive strand of something. | |
| The duchess wore a rope of pearls to the soirée. | |
| 4. subst. (dated) A continuous stream. | |
| 5. subst. (baseball) A hard line drive. | |
| He hit a rope past third and into the corner. | |
| 6. subst. (ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand. | |
| 7. subst. (computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character. | |
| 8. subst. (Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second. | |
| 9. subst. (jewelry) A necklace of at least 1 meter in length. | |
| 10. subst. (nautical) Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage. | |
| 11. subst. (archaic) A unit of length equal to 20 feet. | |
| 12. subst. (slang) Flunitrazepam, also known as Rohypnol. | |
| 13. subst. (slang) A shot of semen that a man releases during ejaculation. | |
| 14. subst. (in the plural) The small intestines. | |
| the ropes of birds | |
| 15. v. To tie (something) with something. | |
| The robber roped the victims. | |
| 16. v. To throw a rope around (something). | |
| The cowboy roped the calf. | |
| 17. v. (intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread. | |
| 18. v. (slang) To commit suicide. | |
| My life is a mess, I might as well rope. | |
