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Aline vs Rope - What's the difference?

aline | rope |

As verbs the difference between aline and rope

is that aline is while rope is to tie (something) with something.

As a noun rope is

(uncountable) thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.

aline

English

Alternative forms

* align

Etymology 1

From , (etyl) aligner .

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To form in line; to fall into line.
  • To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line.
  • :* {{quote-book, year=1963
    • , year_published=2005 , edition=digitized , editor= , author=US National Bureau of Standards , title= , chapter= citation , genre=Science , publisher=US Govt. Printing Office , isbn= , page=69 , passage=Nuclear Orientation.' Studies made of the photoneutron cross section in the region of the giant resonance, using an ' alined holmium target, directly confirmed the theory that this cross section is associated with the two axes of the deformed nucleus. }}
  • :* {{quote-book, year=1975
    • , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Royal Society , title=Mathematical and Physical Sciences , chapter= citation , genre=Mathematics , publisher=Royal Society of London , isbn= , page=167 , passage=Field-alined electron intensities were not found in the low-altitude signature of the plasma sheet. }}
  • To adhere oneself with a group or a way of thinking.
  • :* {{quote-book, year=1977
    • , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Joint Publications Research Service , title=Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=34 , passage=The first item to be studied is the present status of the technical development of radio and television in the non-alined countries. }}

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • in line
  • :* {{quote-web, date=2009-01-26
    • , year= , first= , last= , author=Michele Wissot , authorlink= , title=New Year, New Numbers , site=Huffington Post citation , archiveorg= , accessdate= , passage=So instead of looking to the stock market for some quick fix, why not see what the stars have aline ? }}
    Derived terms
    * alinement

    Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs ----

    rope

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (all obsolete)

    Noun

    (wikipedia rope)
  • (uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
    • Nylon rope is usually stronger than similar rope made of plant fibers.
  • (countable) An individual length of such material.
    • The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes .
  • A cohesive strand of something.
  • * {{quote-book, 2003, (Dennis Lehane), Mystic River, page=138 citation
    • , passage=Jimmy began to scream and ropes of spit shot from his mouth.}}
  • (dated) A continuous stream.
  • * {{quote-book, 1852, John Bourne, 3= A Treatise on the Screw Propeller: With Various Suggestions of Improvement, page=38
    • , passage=The principle of any such device should be to pull on the vessel by a rope of water passing in at the bow and out at the stern. }}
  • (baseball) A hard line drive.
    • He hit a rope past third and into the corner.
  • (ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
  • (computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
  • (Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.(jump)
  • * {{quote-book, 2001, , editor=Nagendra Kr. Singh, chapter=Review of Metaphysical Teaching, Encyclopaedia of Jainism, citation
    • , passage=The central strip of the loka , the Middle World, represents its smallest area, being only one rope wide and one hundred thousand leagues high,
  • (jewelry) A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.
  • (nautical) Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
  • (archaic) A unit of length equal to 20 feet.
  • (slang) Flunitrazepam, also known as Rohypnol.
  • (in the plural) The small intestines.
    • the ropes of birds

    Synonyms

    * twine, line, cord; see also * (jump) rajju, infinitude

    Derived terms

    * jump rope * know the ropes * learn the ropes * money for old rope * on the ropes * rope ladder * Rope Monday * rope tow * rope-band * rope-dancer * rope-dancing * rope-end * ropefull * rope-house * rope-like * rope-maker * ropemanship * rope-over * ropery * rope-ripe * rope's end * rope-sick * rope-tide * ropewalk, rope-walk * ropework, rope-work * ropey, ropy * rope-yard * show one the ropes * teach one the ropes * skipping rope * wire rope

    Verb

    (rop)
  • To tie (something) with something.
    • The robber roped the victims.
  • To throw a rope around (something).
    • The cowboy roped the calf.
  • To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Let us not hang like roping icicles / Upon our houses' thatch.

    Synonyms

    * (to tie something) tie, bind, secure * (throw a rope around) lasso

    Derived terms

    * ropable, ropeable * rope-a-dope * roped * roper * rope together

    Anagrams

    * * ----