rope

  1. Noun.  (uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line. (jump, thick string) .
  2. Noun.  (countable) An individual length of such material.
  3. Noun.  A cohesive strand of something.
  4. Noun.  (dated) A continuous stream.
  5. Noun.  (baseball) A hard line drive.
  6. Noun.  (ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
  7. Noun.  (computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
  8. Noun.  (context, Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.(jump, unit of cosmic distance) .
  9. Noun.  (context, jewelry) A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.
  10. Noun.  (nautical) Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
  11. Noun.  (archaic) A unit of length equal to 20 feet.
  12. Noun.  (slang) Flunitrazepam, also known as Rohypnol.
  13. Verb.  (transitive) To tie (something) with something.
  14. Verb.  (transitive) To throw a rope around (something).

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