(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.
Thread
Definition:
(n.) A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted.
(n.) A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark; also, a line of gold or silver.
(n.) The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut; the rib. See Screw, n., 1.
(n.) Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse.
(n.) Fig.: Composition; quality; fineness.
(v. t.) To pass a thread through the eye of; as, to thread a needle.
(v. t.) To pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to thrid.
(v. t.) To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut.
Example Sentences:
(1) Use 3-ml Luer-Lok syringes and 30-gauge needles and thread the needle carefully into the vessel while using slow and steady injection with light pressure.
(2) No infection threads were found to penetrate either root hairs or the nodule cells.
(3) When using a nylon thread for the attachment of a pseudophakos to the iris, it may happen that the suture is slung tightly around the implant-lens.
(4) This thread ran through his later writings, which focused particularly on questions of the transformation of work and working time, envisaging the possibility that the productivity gains made possible by capitalism could be used to enhance individual and social life, rather than intensifying ruthless economic competition and social division.
(5) Santi Cazorla, Sánchez and Mesut Özil were all involved, and when the ball came back to Cazorla he made a fine threaded pass to Walcott.
(6) We've brought on two experts to answer your questions from 1-2pm BST in the comment thread on this article.
(7) The astrocytes had generally two types of processes: (1) thread-like processes of relatively constant width with few ramifications and few lamellar appendages and (2) the sinuous processes with clusters of lamellar appendages.
(8) Electron microscopy showed the presence of bacterial ghosts and protein threads.
(9) George RR Martin , whose series of novels inspired the HBO drama , has woven a tapestry of extraordinary size and richness; and most of the threads he has used derive from the history of our own world.
(10) The left anterior descending coronary artery of dogs and the right common carotid artery of rabbits were subjected to partial constriction with suture thread (40-60% reduction in transluminal diameter).
(11) Neuronal thread protein is a recently characterized, approximately 20-kd protein that accumulates in brains with Alzheimer's disease (AD) lesions.
(12) Small threaded pins do not cause femoral head rotation.
(13) Nematocyst capsules and everted threads from both species contained levels of glycine and proline-hydroxyproline characteristic of vertebrate collagens.
(14) Load transfer from ring to bone is concentrated at the first and last threads where the subchondral bone layer is penetrated.
(15) Furthermore, large numbers of neuropil threads are scattered throughout the nuclear gray.
(16) The histological findings of actinomyces spores, thread-like foreign material and detritus drew out attention to the rare manifestation of abdominal actinomycosis.
(17) Monofilament nylon threads are used as drains in free skin grafting; 2-0 or 3-0 nylon threads are usually applied.
(18) Monoclonal antibodies, raised independently in two laboratories against either pancreatic stone protein (PSP) or pancreatic thread protein (PTP), reacted with the Mr 14,000 protein(s).
(19) With the initial technique, the gastrostomy tube was pulled in by a thread introduced percutaneously into the stomach.
(20) P19 gave by proteolysis a protein of 14 KD (P14), at first named protein X and also called pancreatic thread protein or pancreatic stone protein.