Rope vs Stripe - 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 long, straight region of a single colour.
(in the plural) The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
(informal) Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.
A long narrow mark left by striking with a lash or rod; by extension, such a stroke.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxv. 3
* Thomson
* 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
(weaving) A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
To mark with stripes.
(computing) To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.
In in the plural terms the difference between rope and stripe
is that rope is the small intestines while stripe is the badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.In transitive terms the difference between rope and stripe
is that rope is to throw a rope around (something) while stripe is to mark with stripes.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
* * ----stripe
English
(wikipedia stripe)Noun
(en noun)- persons of the same political stripe
- Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed.
- Cruelty marked him with inglorious stripes .
- Thou most lying slave, / Whom stripes may move, not kindness!