rope

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English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: rōp, IPA^(key): /ɹəʊp/
• (US) enPR: rōp, IPA^(key): /ɹoʊp/
• Rhymes: -əʊp

Etymology 1

From Middle English rop, rope, from Old English rāp (“rope, cord, cable”), from Proto-West Germanic *raip, from Proto-Germanic *raipaz, *raipą (“rope, cord, band, ringlet”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁roypnós (“strap, band, rope”), from *h₁reyp- (“to peel off, tear; border, edge, strip”).

Alternative forms

• roap, roape (all obsolete)

Noun

rope (countable and uncountable, plural ropes)

1. (uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.

   Synonyms: twine, line, cord; see also Thesaurus:string

2. (countable) An individual length of such material.

3. A cohesive strand of something.
   1. (slang, vulgar) A shot of semen released during ejaculation.
4. (dated) A continuous stream.
5. (baseball) A hard line drive.

6. (ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
7. (computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.

   Synonym: cord

8. (military, uncountable) A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.
9. (Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.

   Synonyms: rajju, infinitude
10. (jewelry) A necklace of at least one meter in length.
11. (nautical) Cordage of at least one inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
12. (archaic) A unit of length equal to twenty feet.
13. (slang) Rohypnol.
14. (slang, usually in the plural) Semen being ejaculated.

15. (with "the") Death by hanging.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Irish: rópa
• Tok Pisin: rop

Translations

Further reading

• Rope on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rope (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English ropen, rope (“to form ropes”), from rop (“rope”); see above.

Verb

rope (third-person singular simple present ropes, present participle roping, simple past and past participle roped)

1. (transitive) To tie (something) with rope.

2. (transitive) To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).

3. (intransitive) To climb by means of a rope or ropes.
4. (intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
5. (Internet slang, intransitive) To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.
   • 2019, anonymous, quoted in Julia Rose DeCook, "Curating the Future: The Sustainability Practices of Online Hate Groups", dissertation submitted to Michigan State University, page 153:

     In figure 71, the poster Brahcel notes that he “almost roped” because he could not find the community […]

   • 2020, Joshua A. Segalewitz, "'You Don't Understand... It's Not About Virginity': Sexual Markets, Identity Construction, and Violent Masculinity on an Incel Forum Board", thesis submitted to the University of Dayton, page 36:

     ToxicAlcoholSyndrome explains that his, “dreams are all really depressing and vivid, so… I’m constantly in a bad mood and know in the back of my brain, I need to rope.”

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:rope.

   My life is a mess; I might as well rope.

Synonyms

• (tie with rope): tie, bind, secure
• (throw a rope around): lasso
• (kill oneself): ropemaxx; see also Thesaurus:commit suicide

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English rop (“gut, intestine”), from Old English rop, ropp; compare Middle Dutch rop, roppe (“fish guts”).

The modern pronunciation results from phonological assimilation to Etymology 1.

Alternative forms

• rop, rap (dialectal)

Noun

rope (plural ropes)

1. (in the plural) The small intestines.

Anagrams

• Pero, oper, pore, reop, repo

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrope/, [ˈro̞pe̞]
• Rhymes: -ope
• Hyphenation^(key): ro‧pe

Noun

rope (slang)

1. (gaming) Clipping of roolipeli (“RPG, role-playing game”).

Declension

Derived terms

Anagrams

• Repo, pore, repo

Lithuanian

Noun form

rópe

1. instrumental/vocative singular of rópė (“turnip”)

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

rope

1. Alternative form of rop (“rope”)

Etymology 2

Verb

rope

1. Alternative form of ropen (“to form ropes”)

Etymology 3

Verb

rope

1. Alternative form of ropen (“to cry out”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hrópa, from Proto-Germanic *hrōpaną.

Verb

rope (imperative rop, present tense roper, simple past ropte, past participle ropt)

1. to shout

Derived terms

• utrope

References

• “rope” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

rope (imperative rop, present tense ropar or roper, simple past ropa or ropte, past participle ropa or ropt, present participle ropande)

1. Alternative form of ropa