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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 1

From Middle English linnen, from Old English linnan (“to cease from, desist, lose, yield up”), from Proto-Germanic *linnan? (“to turn, move aside, avoid”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to elude, avoid, shrink from”). Cognate with Danish linne (“to stop, rest”), dialectal Swedish linna (“to pause, rest”), Icelandic linna (“to stop, rest”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?n/
• Homophone: Lynn
• Rhymes: -?n

Verb

lin (third-person singular simple present lins, present participle linning, simple past linned or lan, past participle linned or lun)

1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To desist, to stop to cease.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:

     Halfe furious vnto his foe he came, / Resolv'd in minde all suddenly to win, / Or soone to lose, before he once would lin [...].

   • 1684, Meriton, Praise Ale, 1.46 (quoted in the EDD):

     Till all war deaun I knaw thou wad not lin.

   • 1822, James Hogg, The Three Perils of Man, I. 238:

     He never linned till he had taen away every chicken that the wife had.

Derived terms

• blin

Etymology 2

See English linn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?n/

Noun

lin (plural lins)

1. Alternative spelling of linn
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 9 p. 134[1]:

     And therefore, to recount her Rivers, from their Lins (marginal gloss) Meeres or Pooles, from whence Rivers spring

   • c. 1735-1801, John Millar, poem, published in 1979, William Christian Lehmann, John Millar of Glasgow, 1735-1801, page 414:

     Here the hammer's active din / Blends with sound of roaring lin.

   • 1776, David Herd, George Paton, Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, Etc, page 20, "Binnorie":

     Whan they came to the roaring lin, She drave unwitting Isabel in.

   • 1827, Jane Porter, The Scottish Chiefs, page 51:

     A step farther might be on the firm earth; but more probably it would be illusive, and dash him into the roaring Lin, where he would be ingulfed at once in its furious whirlpool.

   • 1861, Alexander McLachlan, The Emigrant: And Other Poems, page 201:

     O ye were ne ' er the ane to fret,

     But kept my heart aboon,

     Wi ' smiles sweet as when first we met,

     By Locher ' s roaring lin.

Etymology 3

From Middle English lin, from Old English l?n (“flax, linen, cloth”). For more information, see the entry linen, lint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?n/, /la?n/

Noun

lin (plural lins)

1. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, especially in compounds) Alternative form of line (“flax, linen”)

   a lin apron, lin-break, lin-brake, a lin cap, lin-clout, lin-garn/lin-yarn, lin-man, lin-weaver/lin-webster, lin-wheel

   • 1775, John Watson, The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Halifax, page 16:

     […] to Sowerby-bridge, about twenty-four measured miles, wheel carriages would go in one day; and on that account they concluded that the manufacture of that place, Warrington, &c. would be much readier and cheaper supplied with lin-yarn, flax, &c. from the east, […]

     1641.—14 yards of femble cloth, 12s. ; 8 yards of linen, 6s. 8d. ; 20 yards of harden, 10s. ; 5 linen sheets, 1l. ; 7 linen pillow bears, 8s. ; 2 femble sheets and a line hard sheet, 10s. ; 3 linen towels, 4s. ; 6 lin curtains and a vallance, 12s. ; […]

   • 1864, Preston, Poems, 8:

     A yerd a gooid lin check.

   • 1866, Gilpin, Songs, 233:

     Paddeys wi' their feyne lin' ware.

   • 1874 (ed. of 1879), Waugh, Chim. Corner, 27:

     Hoo wur stonnin' i' th' front of a weshin'-mug, wi' a lin brat afore her.

References

• lin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• -nil-, NIL, nil

Cornish

Etymology 1

Noun

lin f (singulative linen)

1. linen

Etymology 2

Noun

lin

1. Soft mutation of glin.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lin/

Pronoun

lin

1. accusative of li; him

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin l?num, from Proto-Indo-European *l?no-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

lin m (plural lins)

1. linen
2. flax (the plant)

Related terms

• ligne
• linge

Further reading

• “lin” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• Nil

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin l?num.

Noun

lin m

1. linen
2. flax

Related terms

• linie

Galician

Verb

lin

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of ler

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch lijn, from Middle Dutch l?ne, from Old Dutch *l?na, from Proto-Germanic *l?n?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *l?no- (“flax”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?n]
• Hyphenation: lin

Noun

lin

1. line

   Synonym: garis

2. band

   Synonym: pita

3. a route, a line (of transport, especially of public transport and airlines).

   Synonym: jalur

Further reading

• “lin” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Mandarin

Romanization

lin

1. Nonstandard spelling of l?n.
2. Nonstandard spelling of lín.
3. Nonstandard spelling of l?n.
4. Nonstandard spelling of lìn.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle English

Noun

lin (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of lyne

References

• “lin,, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29 April 2018.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin linum, via Old Norse lín.

Noun

lin n (definite singular linet)

1. (botany) flax
2. (fabric) linen

Derived terms

• linolje
• lintøy

References

• “lin” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin linum, via Old Norse lín.

Noun

lin n (definite singular linet)

1. (botany) flax
2. (fabric) linen

Derived terms

• linolje
• lintøy

References

• “lin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

lin m (oblique plural lins, nominative singular lins, nominative plural lin)

1. line (lineage; descent)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?in/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *lin?, further etymology uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Slavic *linjati, see Russian ???? (lin?).

Noun

lin m anim

1. tench (Tinca tinca)

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

lin f

1. genitive plural of lina

Further reading

• lin in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• lin in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lin/

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *lenus, from Latin lenis.

Adjective

lin m or n (feminine singular lin?, masculine plural lini, feminine and neuter plural line)

1. even, smooth
2. calm, quiet
3. mild, gentle, sweet

Declension

Synonyms

• (even, smooth): neted
• (calm, quiet): calm, lini?tit
• (mild, gentle): blând

Derived terms

• lini?te

See also

• senin

Etymology 2

From Bulgarian ??? (lin)

Noun

lin m (plural lini)

1. tench (Tinca tinca)

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?n/
• Rhymes: -i?n

Etymology

From Old Norse lín, from Proto-Germanic *l?n?. Cognate with English linen.

Noun

lin n

1. flax (plant)

Declension

Related terms

• linberedning
• linblomma
• linfält
• linolja
• lintråd
• linne

See also

• lina

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin l?num. Compare Italian lino

Noun

lin m (plural lini)

1. flax
2. linen (fibre)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?n/

Noun 1

lin

1. Soft mutation of glin.

Mutation

Noun 2

lin

1. Soft mutation of llin.

Mutation