rope
/ɹoʊp/ noun A2- 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.
- An individual length of such material. · The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes.· All at once, let’s heave on the rope!
- A cohesive strand of something. · The duchess wore a rope of pearls to the soirée.
- A continuous stream.
- A hard line drive. · He hit a rope past third and into the corner.
- A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
- A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
- A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.
Plural ropes
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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He seized a rope which Dantès flung to him, and with an activity that would have done credit to a sailor, climbed up the side of the ship, while the young man, going to his task, left the conversation to Danglars, who now came towards the owner.
A FARMER, who bore a grudge against a Fox for robbing his poultry yard, caught him at last, and being determined to take an ample revenge, tied some rope well soaked in oil to his tail, and set it on fire.
It happened shortly after this that the Lion was caught by some hunters, who bound him by strong ropes to the ground.
The Mouse, recognizing his roar, came and gnawed the rope with his teeth, and set him free, exclaiming:
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