(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.
Tew
Definition:
(v.) To prepare by beating or working, as leather or hemp; to taw.
(v.) Hence, to beat; to scourge; also, to pull about; to maul; to tease; to vex.
(v. i.) To work hard; to strive; to fuse.
(v. t.) To tow along, as a vessel.
(n.) A rope or chain for towing a boat; also, a cord; a string.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other web youth sensations Alex Tew In 2005 Tew, 21, from Swindon, was looking for a way to pay his student loan from the University of Nottingham.
(2) Transepidermal water (TEW) loss of normal vulvar and flexor forearm skin was measured in 12 subjects.
(3) These experiments allow comparison of the properties of TEW lysozyme with those of the hen egg white (HEW) enzyme reported previously (Banerjee, S. K., Holler, E., Hess, G. P., and Rupley, J.
(4) Organizations take discipline – and he doesn’t strike me as the most disciplined candidate Paul Tewes, former Iowa state director for Barack Obama “From an outside point of view, he does seem to have a fairly passionate medium-sized following,” Tewes said of Trump’s support.
(5) Only two (one at 24 hours and one at 72 hours) of the dogs shocked with TEW showed microscopic foci of necrosis.
(6) "Species loss is not inevitable; we can do something about it," added Tew.
(7) The pH dependence of the binding of (GlcNAc)3 and higher oligomers to TEW lysozyme is like that for the binding of beta-methyl-N-acetylglucosaminide to TEW lysozyme.
(8) He definitely has stirred up the base and a very strong reflection of the American people are feeling.” Tewes, reflecting on his time working for Obama, insisted it was important to harness the natural instincts of voters and volunteers: “You don’t want to discourage people doing things on their own – that’s awesome.” So far, Trump campaign officials say they see no signs of disengagement from early volunteers and remain confident in their non-traditional model.
(9) The magnitude of the low pH difference spectrum is enhanced by binding of saccharide for HEW and Oxa-62-lysozymes but not for TEW lysozyme.
(10) The author describes the clinical outcome 10 years after unicompartmental knee arthroplasty according to a knee assessment system, developed by Tew and Waugh, that includes a detailed operational identification of the clinical examination.
(11) One had a damped sine wave (DSW), and the other a truncated exponential waveform (TEW).
(12) Tom Tew, Natural England's chief scientist, called for a "step change" in conservation, including more "targeted" schemes to protect individual species, better safeguarding of protected areas and better management of land outside the protected areas, especially farmland.
(13) Depsite subcutaneous administration of atropine in seven subjects to eliminate eccrine sweating, no alteration in the elevated TEW loss was found.
(14) Difference spectra associated with changes in pH and with binding of saccharides have been recorded for hen egg white (HEW) lysozyme, turkey egg white (TEW) lysozyme, and for the derivatives of the hen protein in which Tre-62 or Trp-108 had been oxidized specifically to oxindolealanine to give the Oxa-62 or Oxa-108-proteins.
(15) Identical pH difference spectra were obtained for HEW, TEW, and Oxa-62-lysozymes.
(16) Regeneration of skin damage was accompanied by a decrease of TEW values.
(17) The results on the subtests of the HAWIK-R were grouped by the categories recommended by Titze and Tewes.
(18) Tom Tew, the bank's chief executive told my colleague Damian Carrington in September: "I think FoE and others completely misunderstand how biodiversity offsetting works.
(19) Assessment was both clinical and radiological, using a modification of the British Orthopaedic Association knee function assessment chart, and analysis was by the survivorship method as advocated by Tew and Waugh.
(20) You have to make sure that people who are coming are also being communicated with afterwards, and I can’t tell if he’s doing it or not,” Tewes said.