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Difference Between Lope and Rope

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Lope

To run or ride with a steady, easy gait.

Rope

A rope is a group of yarns, plies, fibers or strands that are twisted or braided together into a larger and stronger form. Ropes have tensile strength and so can be used for dragging and lifting.

Lope

A steady, easy gait.

Rope

A flexible heavy cord of tightly intertwined hemp or other fiber.

Lope

To travel an easy pace with long strides.
He loped along, hour after hour, not fast but steady and covering much ground.
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Rope

A string of items attached in one line, especially by twisting or braiding
A rope of onions.

Lope

To jump, leap.

Rope

A sticky glutinous formation of stringy matter in a liquid.

Lope

An easy pace with long strides.

Rope

A cord with a noose at one end for hanging a person.
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Lope

Of Leap.
And, laughing, lope into a tree. Spenser.

Rope

Execution or death by hanging
To die by the rope.

Lope

To leap; to dance.

Rope

A lasso or lariat.

Lope

To move with a leaping or bounding stride, as a horse.

Rope

Ropes(Sports) Several cords strung between poles to enclose a boxing or wrestling ring.

Lope

To run with an easy, bounding stride; - of people.

Rope

Ropes(Informal) Specialized procedures or details
Learn the ropes.
Know the ropes.

Lope

A leap; a long step.

Rope

(Baseball) A line drive.

Lope

An easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps.
The mustang goes rollicking ahead, with the eternal lope, . . . a mixture of two or three gaits, as easy as the motions of a cradle.

Rope

To tie, fasten, or attach with a rope or other cord.

Lope

A slow pace of running

Rope

To enclose, separate, or partition with a rope or other cord
Rope off the scene of the crime.

Lope

A smooth 3-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop

Rope

To catch with a rope or lasso.

Lope

Run easily

Rope

(Informal) To persuade or manipulate (someone)
My boss roped me into attending the ceremony.

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.

Rope

(countable) An individual length of such material.
The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes.

Rope

A cohesive strand of something.
The duchess wore a rope of pearls to the soirée.

Rope

A shot of semen that a man releases during ejaculation.

Rope

(dated) A continuous stream.

Rope

(baseball) A hard line drive.
He hit a rope past third and into the corner.

Rope

(ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.

Rope

(computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.

Rope

A kind of chaff material dropped to interfere with radar consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.

Rope

(Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.

Rope

(jewelry) A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.

Rope

(nautical) Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.

Rope

(archaic) A unit of length equal to 20 feet.

Rope

(slang) Rohypnol.

Rope

Semen being ejaculated.

Rope

(with "the") Death by hanging.
The murderer was sentenced to the rope.

Rope

(in the plural) The small intestines.
The ropes of birds

Rope

(transitive) To tie (something) with rope.
The robber roped the victims.

Rope

(transitive) To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).
The cowboy roped the calf.

Rope

(intransitive) To climb by means of a rope or ropes.

Rope

(intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.

Rope

To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.
My life is a mess; I might as well rope.

Rope

A large, stout cord, usually one not less than an inch in circumference, made of strands twisted or braided together. It differs from cord, line, and string, only in its size. See Cordage.

Rope

A row or string consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc.; as, a rope of onions.

Rope

The small intestines; as, the ropes of birds.

Rope

To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread, as by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality.
Let us not hang like ropingiciclesUpon our houses' thatch.

Rope

To bind, fasten, or tie with a rope or cord; as, to rope a bale of goods.

Rope

To connect or fasten together, as a party of mountain climbers, with a rope.

Rope

To partition, separate, or divide off, by means of a rope, so as to include or exclude something; as, to rope in, or rope off, a plot of ground; to rope out a crowd.

Rope

To lasso (a steer, horse).

Rope

To draw, as with a rope; to entice; to inveigle; to decoy; as, to rope in customers or voters.

Rope

To prevent from winning (as a horse), by pulling or curbing.

Rope

A strong line

Rope

Street names for flunitrazepan

Rope

Catch with a lasso;
Rope cows

Rope

Fasten with a rope;
Rope the bag securely

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