(n.) A strip of oxhide, deprived of hair, and rendered pliable, -- used for twisting into ropes, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three cases of meningiomas originated in the optic nerve sheath in its intra-canalicular portion, have been operated on in Reims since we dispose of the TDM; it gave us the opportunity to re-define the way how to explore an area always difficult to investigate; indeed it has been impossible for a long time to clearly isolate meningiomas in the optic canal through the classical neuro-radiologic technics.
(2) He united the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and an outstanding roster of international singers in Rossini's effervescent but then-neglected Il Viaggio a Reims at the 1985 Pesaro festival; the resultant recording proved a bestseller and remains a desert-island set for many opera lovers.
(3) And that was one of the things that I’ve always dreamt of doing.” – Rennes winger Paul-Georges Ntep after scoring a goal against Reims that saw him round the goalkeeper before getting on his hands and knees and heading the ball over the line “I’ve used up all my credits.
(4) Surveillance of one of the Charlie Hebdo attackers, Saïd Kouachi, had been lifted when he moved house from Paris to the north-eastern city of Reims.
(5) We therefore conducted a prospective study in the urban population of Reims.
(6) A good place to see this is at the Ruinart champagne house on the outskirts of Reims.
(7) France was bracing itself for a two-year high in electricity consumption as temperatures plunged to -20C in Reims and Mulhouse.
(8) The club deserves better than this season.” Michy Batshuayi’s 24th-minute goal was enough to beat Angers, taking Marseille up to 13th, eight points clear of 18th-placed Stade de Reims.
(9) Driving around here – Reims, Epernay, and the surrounding villages – is like driving round the inside of the locked cabinet at the off licence.
(10) This original technique was developed by D. Ploton at the CHU de Reims.
(11) The authors report the different types of mutilating surgery: evisceration, enucleation and exenteration, realized at Reims C.H.R., between 1983 and 1988.
(12) Return rail fares from London to Reims start at £79 with Rail Europe (0844 848 4070, raileurope.co.uk ).
(13) 36 patients consecutively admitted in medical and surgical wards of Reims' University Hospital, and referred to the Psychiatric Emergency Unit, were assessed for their psychiatric morbidity (DMS-III-R, axis I) and their psychiatric dangerousness.
(14) The population of Reims Hospital Psychiatric Emergency Unit is described for the years 1989 and 1975-76.
(15) While Roberge returned to his native France for a season-long loan at Ligue 1 Reims, Modibo, formerly of Lazio, had his contract cancelled.
(16) Starting from a collection of 67 cases of hanging taken over by the Anesthesia Resuscitation Department belonging to Reims Hospital University Centre, the authors report their clinical observations and make an analytical confrontation of this type of accident according to various criteria such as: - the initial physical condition of the victims; - the evolution of the symptoms; - the various medical treatments used.
(17) Originally from Mértola in south-east Portugal, Manuel Colaço Dias was 18 when he moved with his parents to Reims, north-east France, to escape the authoritarian Estado Novo regime.
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.