What's the difference between lasso and rope?

Lasso


Definition:

  • (n.) A rope or long thong of leather with, a running noose, used for catching horses, cattle, etc.
  • (v. t.) To catch with a lasso.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The main advantages of the Steffens lasso loop are its olive-tipped, 45 degrees-angled Tiemann guide, which allows easier and less traumatic passage above the ureteral stone, the tri-part lasso, which affords a better grasp of the stone, and the outlet for urine drainage.
  • (2) Chris – lassoed from a parallel universe where Tom Cruise gave Hollywood a swerve to focus on taking his guitar-alt-musings to open mic spots instead – looks on, coldly dissecting technique and cutting to seduction tips.
  • (3) The following pesticides (herbicides) were studied--afalon, dimid, Lasso, patoran, propanide and Ramrod.
  • (4) His closest challenger – the former banker and rightwing candidate Guillermo Lasso – had only 11.6%.
  • (5) Over the course of these long transits of time and geography, the purpose of ideas and objects (like that of the gold coin in India) was frequently changed, lassoed by the local populace for their own use.
  • (6) Esteban Lasso, executive director of Canadian-based "cleft care" charity Transforming Faces, said in a statement : "It's disheartening that a major motion picture would perpetuate this negative perception and we hope that in future, birth defects and facial differences will not be used to portray 'evil' characters."
  • (7) There are lessons in rodeo, including lassoing and the frustrating pursuit of a steer with a ribbon on its tail.
  • (8) Loose PIP joint: residual flexion from 0 degree to 20 degrees: MP capsular shortening, H shaped, and flexor pulley advancement; "Lasso" operation: a single slip of FDS by finger or one FDS for two fingers; Bunnell-Litter's operation: one FDS for 4 fingers; Giraudeau's operation: FCR + fascia lata; Brand's operation: 1st (ECRL) or 2nd (ECRB) + tendon graft; Palande's operation: ECRB + many tailed fascia lata graft fixed at the muscle tendon junction.
  • (9) It is more a stretching out – like having an elastic band on the end of your fingers and lassoing, far out, things much bigger than you."
  • (10) Chapter 2: now picture yourself throwing a glowing lasso of light around its neck.
  • (11) Twenty-six cases of Zancolli's "lasso" procedure are presented.
  • (12) Because I was an only child these games were one-sided and usually involved either tomahawking the dog or trying to round him up with my string lasso.
  • (13) Hence, the data suggest that the components of the Lasso formulation have no effect on the human immune system.
  • (14) This new work was described by the author as "an evening of high drung and slarrit" which, "with its turrets and its high-jointed gables, should have a particular appeal for anyone approaching it for the first time with a lasso".
  • (15) Male Swiss mice, 25-30 g, were utilized to define some of the behavioral effects of the herbicides Lasso [alachlor 43%; (A)], Basalin [fluchloralin 45%; (F)], Premerge 3 [dinoseb 51%; (D)], and the fungicide Maneb-80 [maneb 80%; (M)].
  • (16) And the spaghetti lasso, which was the hardest.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘It was so crazy’ … Alden Ehrenreich’s character out of his comfort zone with Ralph Fiennes in Hail, Caesar!
  • (17) The iris-lasso is simple to maneuver, suitable for microsurgery, and particularly useful in patients with small pupils.
  • (18) Our experience with this lasso loop has shown this instrument to be a valuable addition to other endourological methods.
  • (19) In continuation of the author's work on 'lasso' principle, flexor digitorum superficialis split in to four tails and looped around A1 pulley has been described in this article to correct the ulnar claw and to correct the total claw hand when used along with opponensplasty as a one stage technique.
  • (20) Like something out of a spaghetti western, the dustup had already seen several climaxes before its finale: cows lassoed by government wranglers, women knocked to the ground and men shot with stun guns.

Rope


Definition:

  • (n.) A row or string consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc.; as, a rope of onions.
  • (n.) A large, stout cord, usually one not less than an inch in circumference, made of strands twisted or braided together. It differs from cord, line, and string, only in its size. See Cordage.
  • (n.) The small intestines; as, the ropes of birds.
  • (v. i.) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread, as by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality.
  • (v. t.) To bind, fasten, or tie with a rope or cord; as, to rope a bale of goods.
  • (v. t.) To connect or fasten together, as a party of mountain climbers, with a rope.
  • (v. t.) To partition, separate, or divide off, by means of a rope, so as to include or exclude something; as, to rope in, or rope off, a plot of ground; to rope out a crowd.
  • (v. t.) To lasso (a steer, horse).
  • (v. t.) To draw, as with a rope; to entice; to inveigle; to decoy; as, to rope in customers or voters.
  • (v. t.) To prevent from winning (as a horse), by pulling or curbing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Old fishing nets and briny ropes enclose the gardens, and lines of washing flap in the Atlantic breeze.
  • (2) The blue skipping rope – that’s the key to this race.” My eight-year-old daughter looked at me like I was mad … but when it came time for the year 3 skipping race, she did as she was told – and duly chalked up a glorious personal best in third place.
  • (3) Right now, with Kabila already 10 years in power and looking immovable, despotism seems to have democracy on the ropes.
  • (4) The rope suddenly breaks in Götterdämmerung, and that's the end of their role – they can no longer foresee the future because the structured and predictable world of the gods is about to be replaced by the chaos of human existence.
  • (5) On the contrary, a plant with a THC level below 50 per cent of the cannabinoids and 0.3 per cent of the dried substance, in addition to a low level of total cannabinoids, has low intoxicant potential and can be used in industry for the production of oil and rope.
  • (6) Look,” taking off her headscarf and exposing her neck, “they strangled me with a rope.
  • (7) Canelo throws a huge right hook, but it only connects with the ropes as Mayweather dances away.
  • (8) There are some difficult sections but there are ropes to hold on to, so as long as you're wearing good trekking shoes you should be fine.
  • (9) Six systems for defining and evaluating disease activity in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) (the Ropes system, the National Institutes of Health [NIH] system, the New York Hospital for Special Surgery system, the British Isles Lupus Assessment Group [BILAG] scale, the University of Toronto SLE Disease Activity Index [SLE-DAI], and the Systemic Lupus Activity Measure [SLAM]) were tested on 25 SLE patients who were selected to represent a range of disease activity.
  • (10) Treatment of cells with 2,4-D (2.5 mM) or 2,4,5-T (1.25 mM) for 20 h resulted in severe MT aggregation and the appearance of large bundles, which were organized in a rope-like structure in the former and a dramatic octopus-like pattern in the latter.
  • (11) Canelo is back on the ropes taking a series of Mayweather combinations.
  • (12) I also present a method for teaching this system to residents that makes use of a piece of cotton or nylon rope, a cotton mop refill, and the end of a garden rake.
  • (13) 1 Muhammad Ali's 'rope-a-dope' Ali's "rope-a-dope" plan for 1974's Rumble in the Jungle – his fight against unbeaten George Foreman for the world heavyweight title – was one of the riskiest strategies ever seen in boxing.
  • (14) Despite the fact that the children evidenced as a group high self-concept at the outset, a significant improvement on this measure appeared after the jump-rope regimen.
  • (15) Five Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta), a suitable nonhuman model, performed 5 months of rope-climbing exercise.
  • (16) We drive to the seafront, where two fishermen are toiling to the rear of the beach, turning cogs that wind a rope attached to their boat to tug it in from the sea over wooden planks.
  • (17) Then the ropes and helmets came out; my first rock-climbing lesson.
  • (18) Suddenly, we were back in the age of ropes and pulleys and brute strength to deliver her into the hands of the mechanised world.
  • (19) Seventy-seven flexor tendon lesions in zone I have been reinserted by the "rope down" technique using the Jennings barb-wire.
  • (20) For seven sweltering rounds, against all prognoses, Ali allowed Foreman, the brutish, one-blow Goliath, actually to punch himself out on his arms, as Ali himself lay on the ropes, head back as if out of a bedroom window to check if the cat was on the roof.

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