Lope vs. Rope — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Lope and Rope
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Definitions
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