Rope vs Ope - What's the difference?

In archaic terms the difference between rope and ope

is that rope is a unit of length equal to 20 feet while ope is to open.

As verbs the difference between rope and ope

is that rope is to tie (something) with something while ope is to open.

As a noun 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 ope is

open.

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

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ope

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.6:

*:Arriving there, as did by chaunce befall, / He found the gate wyde ope […].

* 1819 , (John Keats), Otho the Great , Act V, Scene V, verses 191-192:

We are all weary — faint — set ope the doors —

I will to bed! — To-morrow —

* Herbert

On Sunday heaven's gate stands ope .

Verb

(op)

(archaic) To open.

* 1611 , William Shakespeare, The Tempest , Act I, scene II :

The hour's now come, the very minute bids thee ope thine ear; obey and be attentive.

Anagrams

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