different between rope vs hempen

English

Alternative forms

• roap, roape (all obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English rope, rape, from Old English r?p (“rope, cord, cable”), from Proto-West Germanic *raip, from Proto-Germanic *raipaz, *raip? (“rope, cord, band, ringlet”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?roypnós (“strap, band, rope”), from *h?reyp- (“to peel off, tear; border, edge, strip”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: r?p, IPA^(key): /???p/
• (US) enPR: r?p, IPA^(key): /?o?p/
• Rhymes: -??p

Noun

rope (countable and uncountable, plural ropes)

1. (uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.

   Synonyms: twine, line, cord; see also Thesaurus:string

2. (countable) An individual length of such material.

3. A cohesive strand of something.
4. (dated) A continuous stream.
5. (baseball) A hard line drive.

6. (ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
7. (computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
8. (Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.

   Synonyms: rajju, infinitude
9. (jewelry) A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.
10. (nautical) Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
11. (archaic) A unit of length equal to 20 feet.
12. (slang) Rohypnol.
13. (slang, vulgar) A shot of semen that a man releases during ejaculation.
14. (in the plural) The small intestines.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

rope (third-person singular simple present ropes, present participle roping, simple past and past participle roped)

1. (transitive) To tie (something) with rope.

   The robber roped the victims.

2. (transitive) To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).

   The cowboy roped the calf.

3. (intransitive) To climb by means of a rope or ropes.
   • 1984, G. F. Dutton, The Ridiculous Mountains (page 153)

     We roped down to the platform selected for the bivouac; set up our bags and brewed a reasonable meal.

4. (intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
5. (slang, intransitive) To commit suicide.

   My life is a mess; I might as well rope.

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

Synonyms

• (tie with rope): tie, bind, secure
• (throw a rope around): lasso

Derived terms

Further reading

• Rope on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rope (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Pero, oper, pore, reop, repo

Finnish

(index r)

Noun

rope

1. (gaming, slang) Abbreviation of roolipeli (“RPG (role-playing game)”).

Anagrams

• Repo, pore, repo

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

rope (imperative rop, present tense roper, simple past ropte, past participle ropt)

1. to shout

Derived terms

• utrope

References

• “rope” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

rope (imperative rop, present tense ropar or roper, simple past ropa or ropte, past participle ropa or ropt, present participle ropande)

1. Alternative form of ropa

English

Etymology

From Middle English hempen, hempyn, from Old English *hænepen (“made of hemp, hempen”), equivalent to hemp +? -en. Cognate with Dutch hennepen (“hempen”), German hänfen (“hempen”). More at hemp.

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?h?mp?n/

Adjective

hempen (not comparable)

1. (dated) Made of hemp
   • 1891: Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company

     A quiet land is this -- a land where the slow-moving Basque, with his flat biretta-cap, his red sash and his hempen sandals, tills his scanty farm ...

2. Related to hempen ropes, i.e., to hanging as capital punishment.
   • 1904: Rafael Sabatini, The Tavern Night

     ... but rid himself also of the companionship of this ruffianly Sir Crispin, to whom no doubt a hempen justice would be meted.

Derived terms

• dance the hempen jig

Translations

Middle English

Alternative forms

• hempon, hempyn

Etymology

Possibly from an Old English *hænepen; however this word is attested relatively late and was possibly formed anew in Middle English. Equivalent to hemp +? -en.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?mp?n/

Noun

hempen

1. hempen (made of hemp)

Descendants

• English: hempen
• Scots: hempen

References

• “hempen, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-1-7.