Rope vs Leash - What's the difference?
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(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
A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.
* Shakespeare
A brace and a half; a tierce.
A set of three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general.
* 1597 , , by Shakespeare
* 1663 ,
* Ben Jonson
* Tennyson
A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
(surfing) A leg rope.
To fasten or secure with a leash.
(figuratively) to curb, restrain
* 1919 , :
As nouns the difference between rope and leash
is that rope is (uncountable) thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line while leash is a strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.As verbs the difference between rope and leash
is that rope is to tie (something) with something while leash is to fasten or secure with a leash.rope
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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.
Synonyms
* (to tie something) tie, bind, secure * (throw a rope around) lassoDerived terms
* ropable, ropeable * rope-a-dope * roped * roper * rope togetherAnagrams
* * ----leash
English
Noun
(es)- like a fawning greyhound in the leash
- Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a leash of drawers; and can call them all by their Christian names, as, Tom, Dick, and Francis.
- It had an odd promiscuous tone, / As if h' had talk'd three parts in one; / Which made some think, when he did gabble, / Th' had heard three labourers of Babel; / Or Cerberus himself pronounce / A leash of languages at once.
- [I] kept my chamber a leash of days.
- Then were I wealthier than a leash of kings.
- 1980: Probably the idea was around before that, but the first photo of the leash in action was published that year'' — ''As Years Roll By (1970's Retrospective) , Drew Kampion, magazine, February 1980, page 43. Quoted at surfresearch.com.au glossary[http://www.surfresearch.com.au/agl.html].
Synonyms
* (strap or cord used to restrain a dog)Verb
(es)- Man is brow-beaten, leashed , muzzled, masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.