What's the difference between roping and rowing?

Roping


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rope

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.

Rowing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Row

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Arizona on Wednesday executed the oldest person on its death row, nearly 35 years after he was charged with murdering a Bisbee man during a robbery.
  • (2) And any Labour commitment on spending is fatally undermined by their deficit amnesia.” Davey widened the attack on the Tories, following a public row this week between Clegg and Theresa May over the “snooper’s charter”, by accusing his cabinet colleague Eric Pickles of coming close to abusing his powers by blocking new onshore developments against the wishes of some local councils.
  • (3) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
  • (4) However, a new, high-profile business deal, and a public row with her family, mean the multibillionaire's days of privacy are numbered.
  • (5) In the midst of all the newspaper headlines and vigils you can sometimes lose sight of the man who was on death row.
  • (6) Likewise, Blanchett's co-star Alec Baldwin appeared to call for an end to the public nature of the row, terming Dylan's allegations "this family's personal struggle".
  • (7) In the subsequent report into the row , the BBC concluded there was a "lack of direct control by Radio 2" over Brand's independent production company.
  • (8) These observations suggest that the inner dynein arms in Chlamydomonas axonemes are aligned not in a single straight row, but in a staggered row or two discrete rows.
  • (9) It is suggested therefore that the ATPase is not randomly distributed in the plane of the membrane but rather forms ordered clusters (probably rows of monomers or dimers) on the fluorescence time scale (nanoseconds) even in the presence of a large excess of phospholipid.
  • (10) • 39 Candlemaker Row, 0131-220 0601, analoguebooks.co.uk .
  • (11) However, BBC director general Mark Thompson said recently that the row over senior executives not relocating to the corporation's new headquarters in Salford would become a "non-issue" once the move is completed.
  • (12) Union urges M&S to open talks about pay and pension changes Read more M&S’s shares, which have fallen more than 40% in the past year, have come under pressure as investors assess the impact of Rowe’s plans on its profitability as well as the prospect of a high street downturn following the Brexit vote.
  • (13) In a month where the price of the paper increased its price to £1.40 on weekdays and £2.30 on a Saturdayand launched the "Own the Weekend" advertising campaign, the headline figure increased by 0.11% to 204,440, the third month-on-month increase in a row.
  • (14) The proliferation zone is only a few cell rows thick and contains single cells with an oval shape and longitudinal fibrocyte-like nucleus.
  • (15) It leaves 121 people on death row in the state, including two women.
  • (16) The row between two of the media industry's most colourful and abrasive figures took place in the YouView boardroom, located at Desmond's Northern & Shell Thameside skyscraper.
  • (17) Thorny issues of racism on the catwalk, of the impact of fashion on our relationship with food, of the decreasing relevance of the traditional catwalk show in the digital age, and of the bloated size of the fashion industry are the topics engrossing the front row.
  • (18) The row had been inflamed over the weekend by a series of leaks about the spiralling price of Gove's free schools and high costs of Clegg's free school meals, giving Labour ammunition to attack the government's education policy in Westminster.
  • (19) The prospect of prosecutions has already led to rows between the Obama administration and members of the Bush administration led by the former vice-president Dick Cheney, who said CIA morale would be damaged.
  • (20) Each forward pack was tested under the following scrummaging combinations: front-row only; front-row plus second-row; full scrum minus side-row, and full scrum.

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