Cold vs Rope - What's the difference?
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(label) Having a low temperature.
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(label) Causing the air to be cold.
(label) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
Unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling.
* 2011 April 23, (Doctor Who), series 6, episode 1, (The Impossible Astronaut):
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Dispassionate, not prejudiced or partisan, impartial.
Completely unprepared; without introduction.
Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
(label) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart.
(label) Cornered, done for.
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(label) Not pungent or acrid.
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
(label) Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.
* (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)
* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
(label) Not sensitive; not acute.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm'' and ''hot .
(label) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
A condition of low temperature.
(medicine) A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
While at low temperature.
Without preparation.
With finality.
(uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
(countable) An individual length of such material.
A cohesive strand of something.
* {{quote-book, 2003, (Dennis Lehane), Mystic River, page=138
, passage=Jimmy began to scream and ropes of spit shot from his mouth.}}
(dated) A continuous stream.
* {{quote-book, 1852, John Bourne, 3=
, 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.
(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,
, 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.
To tie (something) with something.
To throw a rope around (something).
To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between cold and rope
is that cold is a condition of low temperature while rope is thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line. {{jump|thick string|s|t}.As an adjective cold
is having a low temperature.As an adverb cold
is while at low temperature.As a verb rope is
to tie (something) with something.cold
English
Adjective
(er)- RIVER SONG (upon seeing the still-living DOCTOR, moments after he made her and two other friends watch what they thought was his death): This is cold'. Even by your standards, this is ' cold .
- cold plants
- What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in!
- The jest grows cold when it comes on in a second scene.
- Smell this business with a sense as cold / As is a dead man's nose.
Synonyms
* chilled, chilly, freezing, frigid, glacial, icy, cool * (of the weather) (qualifier) brass monkeys, nippy, parky, taters * (of a person or animal) * (unfriendly) aloof, distant, hostile, standoffish, unfriendly, unwelcoming * (unprepared) unprepared, unready * See alsoAntonyms
* (having a low temperature) baking, boiling, heated, hot, scorching, searing, torrid, warm * (of the weather) hot (See the corresponding synonyms of (hot).) * (of a person or animal) hot (See the corresponding synonyms of (hot).) * (unfriendly) amiable, friendly, welcoming * (unprepared) prepared, primed, readyDerived terms
* as cold as charity * as cold as ice, cold as ice * as cold as the grave, cold as the grave * blow hot and cold * brass monkeys * bring someone out in a cold sweat * coldness * cold-blooded * cold call * cold case * cold cash * cold comfort * cold cream * cold cuts * cold-eyed * cold feet/get cold feet * cold fish * cold front * * cold-hearted * cold one * cold-read * cold reading * cold snap * cold start * cold storage * cold store * cold sweat * cold turkey * cold war * cold-weld * come in from the cold * freezing cold * get cold feet * give someone the cold shoulder * in cold blood * in the cold light of day * leave someone cold * leave someone out in the cold * make someone's blood run cold * stone-cold * throw cold water onNoun
(en noun)- Come in, out of the cold .
- I caught a miserable cold and had to stay home for a week.
Synonyms
* (low temperature) coldness * (illness) common cold, coryza, head coldDerived terms
* bitter cold * brass monkey weather * catch cold * catch one's death of cold * cold sore * cold virus * common cold * head coldCoordinate terms
* freeze, frostAdverb
(en adverb)- ''The steel was processed cold .
- The speaker went in cold and floundered for a topic.
- I knocked him out cold .
Statistics
*Anagrams
* clodSee also
* cool * fresh * lukewarm * tepid 1000 English basic wordsrope
English
Alternative forms
* (all obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia rope)- Nylon rope is usually stronger than similar rope made of plant fibers.
- The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes .
citation
A Treatise on the Screw Propeller: With Various Suggestions of Improvement, page=38
- He hit a rope past third and into the corner.
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- the ropes of birds
Synonyms
* twine, line, cord; see also * (jump) rajju, infinitudeDerived 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 ropeVerb
(rop)- The robber roped the victims.
- The cowboy roped the calf.
- Let us not hang like roping icicles / Upon our houses' thatch.