rope
- 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) .
- Noun. (countable) An individual length of such material.
- Noun. A cohesive strand of something.
- Noun. (dated) A continuous stream.
- Noun. (baseball) A hard line drive.
- Noun. (ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
- Noun. (computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
- 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) .
- Noun. (context, jewelry) A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.
- Noun. (nautical) Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
- Noun. (archaic) A unit of length equal to 20 feet.
- Noun. (slang) Flunitrazepam, also known as Rohypnol.
- Verb. (transitive) To tie (something) with something.
- Verb. (transitive) To throw a rope around (something).
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