rope

noun

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.”

2. (countable)An individual length of such material.

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

   “All at once, let’s heave on the rope!”

3. (countable, uncountable)A cohesive strand of something.

   “The duchess wore a rope of pearls to the soirée.”

   “Jimmy began to scream and ropes of spit shot from his mouth.”

4. (countable, dated, uncountable)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.”

5. (countable, uncountable)A hard line drive.

   “He hit a rope past third and into the corner.”

6. (countable, uncountable)A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
7. (countable, uncountable)A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
8. (uncountable)A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.
9. (Jainism, countable, uncountable)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, […]”

10. (countable, uncountable)A necklace of at least one meter in length.
11. (countable, uncountable)Cordage of at least one inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
12. (archaic, countable, uncountable)A unit of length equal to twenty feet.
13. (countable, slang, uncountable)Rohypnol.
14. (countable, plural-normally, slang, uncountable)Semen being ejaculated.

    “shooting ropes”

15. (countable, uncountable, with-definite-article)Death by hanging.

    “The murderer was sentenced to the rope.”

16. (countable)An apparatus, currently with limited use by the senior contestants and not used in world-wide tournaments.
17. (countable, metonymically, uncountable)An apparatus, currently with limited use by the senior contestants and not used in world-wide tournaments.
18. (in-plural)The small intestines.

    “the ropes of birds”

verb

1. (transitive)To tie (something) with rope.

   “The robber roped the victims.”

2. (transitive)To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).

   “The cowboy roped the calf.”

3. (intransitive)To climb by means of a rope or ropes.

   “We roped down to the platform selected for the bivouac; set up our bags and brewed a reasonable meal.”

4. (intransitive)To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.

   “Let us not hang like roping icicles / Upon our houses' thatch.”

5. (transitive)To pull or restrain (the horse one is riding) to prevent it from winning a race.

   “Others, a shade more advanced, have been known to bribe a jockey to "hold," "rope" a horse, or a stableman to poison or stupefy him.”

6. (Internet, intransitive)To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.

   “My life is a mess; I might as well rope.”

   “In figure 71, the poster Brahcel notes that he “almost roped” because he could not find the community […]”

   “ToxicAlcoholSyndrome explains that his, “dreams are all really depressing and vivid, so… I’m constantly in a bad mood and know in the back of my brain, I need to rope.””

   “Another man wrote that the only reason he hasn't “roped” (incel terminology for death by suicide) is he didn't want to ruin his family's Christmas.”