rope meaning
EN
[rəʊp] [roʊp] [-əʊp] 
US WRope
- A rope is a group of yarns, plies, or strands which are twisted or braided together in order to combine them into a larger and stronger form.
- NounPLropes
- (uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line. syn. transl.
- 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.
- Jimmy began to scream and ropes of spit shot from his mouth.
- (dated) A continuous stream.
- 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. syn.
- 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
- (uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line. syn. transl.
- VerbSGropesPRropingPT, PProped
- (transitive) To tie (something) with something.
- The robber roped the victims.
- (transitive) To throw a rope around (something).
- The cowboy roped the calf.
- (intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
- (transitive) To tie (something) with something.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- On a tramway installation, drag the haul rope through each intermediate tower, placing it in the snatch block as the tower is passed to lighten the load.
- No place to climb? MacGyver your own set-up in a power rack for rope pull-ups or rows. 14 March 2014
- to relax a rope or cord; to relax the muscles or sinews
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- The school just got a great new set of jump ropes.
- Work slowly and cautiously until you have learned the ropes.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of rope in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Nouns
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "rope" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.