different between snail vs rope

English

Etymology

From the Middle English snaile, snayle, from the Old English sne?el, from Proto-Germanic *snagilaz. Cognate with Low German Snagel,Snâel, Snâl (“snail”), German Schnegel (“slug”). Compare also Old Norse snigill, from Proto-Germanic *snigilaz.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sn?l
• IPA^(key): /sne?l/, [sn?e???]
• Rhymes: -e?l

Noun

snail (plural snails)

1. Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
2. (informal, by extension) A slow person; a sluggard.
3. (engineering) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.
4. (military, historical) A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.
5. The pod of the snail clover.

Synonyms

• dodman, hodmandod (East Anglia, dialectal)

Derived terms

• snail trefoil (Medicago scutellata)
• snail mail
• snail's pace

Translations

See also

• heliciculture
• slug

Verb

snail (third-person singular simple present snails, present participle snailing, simple past and past participle snailed)

1. To move or travel very slowly.

Anagrams

• Lains, Lians, Nilas, Sinla, anils, lains, nails, nilas, salin, slain

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