| Engelsk > Engelsk |
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| rope |
| 1. n. 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. |
| 2. n. An individual length of such material. |
| The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes. |
| 3. n. A cohesive strand of something. |
| The duchess wore a rope of pearls to the soirée. |
| 4. n. (dated) A continuous stream. |
| 5. n. (baseball) A hard line drive. |
| He hit a rope past third and into the corner. |
| 6. n. (ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand. |
| 7. n. (computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character. |
| 8. n. (Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second. |
| 9. n. (jewelry) A necklace of at least 1 meter in length. |
| 10. n. (nautical) Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage. |
| 11. n. (archaic) A unit of length equal to 20 feet. |
| 12. n. (slang) Flunitrazepam, also known as Rohypnol. |
| 13. n. (slang) A shot of semen that a man releases during ejaculation. |
| 14. n. (in the plural) The small intestines. |
| the ropes of birds |
| 15. v. To tie (something) with something. |
| The robber roped the victims. |
| 16. v. To throw a rope around (something). |
| The cowboy roped the calf. |
| 17. v. (intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread. |
| 18. v. (slang) To commit suicide. |
| My life is a mess, I might as well rope. |
| Svenska > Engelsk |
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| 1. n-n. rope |
