Definición de rope en inglés:


Saltos de línea: rope
Pronunciación: /rəʊp


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1.1North American A lasso.
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1.2 (the rope) Used in reference to execution by hanging: executions by the rope continued well into the twentieth century
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1.3 (the ropes) The ropes enclosing a boxing or wrestling ring.
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  • Hw walked down to the ring and bounced back and forth off the ropes.
2A quantity of roughly spherical objects such as onions or beads strung together: a rope of pearls
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3 (the ropes) informal The established procedures in an organization or area of activity: I want you to show her the ropes
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  • He wants me to continue my studies there and learn the ropes of our business.
informal know the drill, know the score


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1Catch, fasten, or secure with rope: the calves must be roped and led out of the stockade the climbers were all roped together
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1.1 (rope something off) Enclose or separate an area with a rope or tape: police roped off the area
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  • The area around the tree is roped off and reserved for those with special tickets.
1.2 [no object] Climbing (Of a party of climbers) connect each other together with a rope: we stopped at the foot of the ridge and roped up
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1.3 [no object] (rope down/up) Climbing Climb down or up using a rope: the party had been roping down a hanging glacier
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  • So, once again we roped up and got ready to climb.
2 (rope someone in/into) Persuade someone, despite reluctance, to take part in (an activity): anyone who could sing in tune was roped in
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persuade to/into, talk into, inveigle into; enlist, engage
informal drag in/into






money for old rope

see money.
a cinch, child's play, a gift, a walkover
informal a doddle, a walk in the park, a piece of cake, a picnic, money for jam, a breeze, kids' stuff, a cushy job/number, a doss, a cakewalk, a pushover
North American informal duck soup
Australian/New Zealand informal a bludge
South African informal a piece of old tackie
dated a snip
British vulgar slang a piece of piss

on the rope

Climbing Roped together: the technique of moving together on the rope

on the ropes

Boxing Forced against the ropes by the opponent’s attack.
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  • It's the first round and Jackie's been on the ropes twice.
  • He is moving better and not laying on the ropes at all.
In state of near collapse or defeat: behind the apparent success the company was on the ropes
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a rope of sand

literary Used in allusion to something providing only illusory security or coherence: our union will become a mere rope of sand
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  • China was still, as Sun Yatsen said, ‘a rope of sand’.

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