English Dictionary

rope

/ɹəʊp/

noun

(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.

He tied the rope around the tree.

意味（1）

(uncountable) 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.

意味（2）

(countable) An individual length of such material.

The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes.

意味（3）

A cohesive strand of something.

意味（4）

(slang, vulgar) A shot of semen that a man releases during ejaculation.

意味（5）

(dated) A continuous stream.

The principle of any such device should be to pull on the vessel by a rope of water passing in at the bow and out at the stern.

意味（6）

(baseball) A hard line drive.

He hit a rope past third and into the corner.

意味（7）

(ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.

意味（8）

(computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.

意味（9）

(military, uncountable) A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.

意味（10）

(Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.

The central strip of the loka, the Middle World, represents its smallest area, being only one rope wide and one hundred thousand leagues high, […]

意味（11）

(jewelry) A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.

意味（12）

(nautical) Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.

意味（13）

(archaic) A unit of length equal to 20 feet.

意味（14）

(slang) Rohypnol.

意味（15）

(slang, usually in the plural) Semen being ejaculated.

意味（16）

(with "the") Death by hanging.

The murderer was sentenced to the rope.