Meaning

• 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."

• An individual length of such material.

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

• A cohesive strand of something.

  "The duchess wore a rope of pearls to the soirée."

• A continuous stream.

• A hard line drive.

  "He hit a rope past third and into the corner."

• A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.

• A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.

• A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.

• (jewelry) A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.

• Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.

• A unit of length equal to 20 feet.

• Flunitrazepam, also known as Rohypnol.

• A shot of semen that a man releases during ejaculation.

• (in the plural) The small intestines.

  "the ropes of birds"

Meaning

• To tie (something) with rope.

  "The robber roped the victims."

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

  "The cowboy roped the calf."

• To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.

• To commit suicide.

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