Usually means: Fibers twisted together for strength.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. rope: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. rope, the rope: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rope: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rope, the rope: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rope: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rope, rope: Wordnik
  7. rope: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. rope: Wiktionary
  9. rope: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. rope: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. rope: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Rope, rope: Dictionary.com
  13. rope: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. rope: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Rope (Foo Fighters song), Rope (computer science), Rope (data structure), Rope (disambiguation), Rope (film), Rope (play), Rope (rhythmic gymnastics), Rope (song), Rope (torture), Rope (unit), Rope, The Rope, The rope: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Rope: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. rope: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. rope: Rhymezone
  19. rope: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. rope: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Rope, Rope, Rope: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. rope: Free Dictionary
  23. rope: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. rope: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. rope: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rope: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. rope: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rope: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rope: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ROPE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. rope: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Rope: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  3. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. rope, rope, rope: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Rope: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. rope, rope(d), the rope: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rope: Sports Definitions

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Explosives (No longer online)
  3. ROPE: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)
  6. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See roped as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
noun:  (countable) An individual length of such material.
noun:  A cohesive strand of something.
noun:  (slang, vulgar) A shot of semen released during ejaculation.
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:  (military, uncountable) A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.
noun:  (Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.
noun:  (jewelry) A necklace of at least one meter in length.
noun:  (nautical) Cordage of at least one inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
noun:  (archaic) A unit of length equal to twenty feet.
noun:  (slang) Rohypnol.
noun:  (slang, usually in the plural) Semen being ejaculated.
noun:  (with "the") Death by hanging.
verb:  (transitive) To tie (something) with rope.
verb:  (transitive) To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).
verb:  (intransitive) To climb by means of a rope or ropes.
verb:  (intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
verb:  (Internet slang, intransitive) To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.
noun:  (in the plural) The small intestines.

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