Line vs. Rope

Linenoun

A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.

Linenoun

(geometry) An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.

Linenoun

A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.

Linenoun

(graph theory) An edge of a graph.

Linenoun

(geography) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.

Linenoun

The equator.

Linenoun

(music) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.

Linenoun

(cricket) The horizontal path of a ball towards the batsman (see also length).

Linenoun

(soccer) The goal line.

Linenoun

A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.

Linenoun

A hose or pipe, of any size.

Linenoun

Direction, path.

Linenoun

The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points: a telephone or network connection.

Linenoun

A clothesline.

Linenoun

A letter, a written form of communication.

Linenoun

A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.

Linenoun

(military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied by specified forces.

Linenoun

The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.

Linenoun

A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.

Linenoun

(obsolete) A measuring line or cord.

Linenoun

That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.

Linenoun

A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.

Linenoun

Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).

Linenoun

A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation.

Linenoun

(military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.

Linenoun

A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.

Linenoun

A small amount of text. Specifically:

Linenoun

A written or printed row of letters, words, numbers, or other text, especially a row of words extending across a page or column, or a blank in place of such text.

Linenoun

A verse (in poetry).

Linenoun

A sentence of dialogue, especially in a play, movie, or the like.

Linenoun

A lie or exaggeration, especially one told to gain another's approval or prevent losing it.

Linenoun

Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.

Linenoun

The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political or religious faction.

Linenoun

A set of products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.

Linenoun

(stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.

Linenoun

A measure of length:

Linenoun

(historical) A tsarist-era Russian unit of measure, approximately equal to one tenth of an English inch, used especially when measuring the calibre of firearms.

Linenoun

One twelfth of an inch.

Linenoun

One fortieth of an inch.

Linenoun

(historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.

Linenoun

The batter’s box.

Linenoun

The position in which the fencers hold their swords.

Linenoun

(engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working).

Linenoun

A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).

Linenoun

(obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.

Linenoun

(genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.

Linenoun

(perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock and a catheter.

Linenoun

(ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.

Linenoun

A vascular catheter.

Linenoun

(obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.

Lineverb

(transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.

Lineverb

(transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify.

Lineverb

To form a line along.

Lineverb

(transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.

Lineverb

To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.

Lineverb

(transitive) To read or repeat line by line.

Lineverb

To form or enter into a line.

Lineverb

To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground.

Lineverb

To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.

Lineverb

(transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.

Lineverb

To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.

Lineverb

(transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.

Lineverb

to copulate with, to impregnate.

Linenoun

Flax; linen.

Linenoun

The longer and finer fiber of flax.

Linenoun

A linen thread or string; a slender, strong cord; also, a cord of any thickness; a rope; a hawser; as, a fishing line; a line for snaring birds; a clothesline; a towline.

Linenoun

A more or less threadlike mark of pen, pencil, or graver; any long mark; as, a chalk line.

Linenoun

The course followed by anything in motion; hence, a road or route; as, the arrow descended in a curved line; the place is remote from lines of travel.

Linenoun

Direction; as, the line of sight or vision.

Linenoun

A row of letters, words, etc., written or printed; esp., a row of words extending across a page or column.

Linenoun

A short letter; a note; as, a line from a friend.

Linenoun

A verse, or the words which form a certain number of feet, according to the measure.

Linenoun

Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.

Linenoun

That which has length, but not breadth or thickness.

Linenoun

The exterior limit of a figure, plat, or territory; boundary; contour; outline.

Linenoun

A threadlike crease marking the face or the hand; hence, characteristic mark.

Linenoun

Lineament; feature; figure.

Linenoun

A straight row; a continued series or rank; as, a line of houses, or of soldiers; a line of barriers.

Linenoun

A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; as, the ascending or descending line; the line of descent; the male line; a line of kings.

Linenoun

A connected series of public conveyances, and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.; as, a line of stages; an express line.

Linenoun

A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.

Linenoun

A long tape, or a narrow ribbon of steel, etc., marked with subdivisions, as feet and inches, for measuring; a tapeline.

Linenoun

A measuring line or cord.

Linenoun

That which was measured by a line, as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.

Linenoun

The proper relative position or adjustment of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working; as, the engine is in line or out of line.

Linenoun

Instruction; doctrine.

Linenoun

The track and roadbed of a railway; railroad.

Linenoun

A row of men who are abreast of one another, whether side by side or some distance apart; - opposed to column.

Linenoun

A trench or rampart.

Linenoun

Form of a vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections.

Linenoun

One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.

Linenoun

A number of shares taken by a jobber.

Linenoun

A series of various qualities and values of the same general class of articles; as, a full line of hosiery; a line of merinos, etc.

Linenoun

The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, or the whole of a system of telegraph wires under one management and name.

Linenoun

The reins with which a horse is guided by his driver.

Linenoun

A measure of length; one twelfth of an inch.

Lineverb

To cover the inner surface of; as, to line a cloak with silk or fur; to line a box with paper or tin.

Lineverb

To put something in the inside of; to fill; to supply, as a purse with money.

Lineverb

To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding anything; to fortify; as, to line works with soldiers.

Lineverb

To impregnate; - applied to brute animals.

Lineverb

To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines; as, to line a copy book.

Lineverb

To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.

Lineverb

To read or repeat line by line; as, to line out a hymn.

Lineverb

To form into a line; to align; as, to line troops.

Linenoun

a formation of people or things one beside another;

Linenoun

a mark that is long relative to its width;

Linenoun

a formation of people or things one behind another;

Linenoun

a length (straight or curved) without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving point

Linenoun

text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen;

Linenoun

a single frequency (or very narrow band) of radiation in a spectrum

Linenoun

a fortified position (especially one marking the most forward position of troops);

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the methodical process of logical reasoning;

Linenoun

a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power

Linenoun

a connected series of events or actions or developments;

Linenoun

a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent

Linenoun

a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface;

Linenoun

a pipe used to transport liquids or gases;

Linenoun

the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed

Linenoun

a telephone connection

Linenoun

acting in conformity;

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the descendants of one individual;

Linenoun

something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible;

Linenoun

the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money;

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in games or sports; a mark indicating positions or bounds of the playing area

Linenoun

(often plural) a means of communication or access;

Linenoun

a particular kind of product or merchandise;

Linenoun

a commercial organization serving as a common carrier

Linenoun

space for one line of print (one column wide and 1/14 inch deep) used to measure advertising

Linenoun

the maximum credit that a customer is allowed

Linenoun

a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence;

Linenoun

a short personal letter;

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a conceptual separation or demarcation;

Linenoun

mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it

Lineverb

be in line with; form a line along;

Lineverb

cover the interior of (garments);

Lineverb

make a mark or lines on a surface;

Lineverb

mark with lines;

Lineverb

fill plentifully;

Lineverb

reinforce with fabric;

Ropenoun

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

Ropenoun

(countable) An individual length of such material.

Ropenoun

A cohesive strand of something.

Ropenoun

(dated) A continuous stream.

Ropenoun

(baseball) A hard line drive.

Ropenoun

(ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.

Ropenoun

(computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.

Ropenoun

(Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.s

Ropenoun

(jewelry) A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.

Ropenoun

(nautical) Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.

Ropenoun

(archaic) A unit of length equal to 20 feet.

Ropenoun

(slang) Flunitrazepam, also known as Rohypnol.

Ropenoun

A shot of semen that a man releases during ejaculation.

Ropenoun

(in the plural) The small intestines.

Ropeverb

(transitive) To tie (something) with something.

Ropeverb

(transitive) To throw a rope around (something).

Ropeverb

(intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.

Ropeverb

(slang) To commit suicide

Ropenoun

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.

Ropenoun

A row or string consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc.; as, a rope of onions.

Ropenoun

The small intestines; as, the ropes of birds.

Ropeverb

To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread, as by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality.

Ropeverb

To bind, fasten, or tie with a rope or cord; as, to rope a bale of goods.

Ropeverb

To connect or fasten together, as a party of mountain climbers, with a rope.

Ropeverb

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.

Ropeverb

To lasso (a steer, horse).

Ropeverb

To draw, as with a rope; to entice; to inveigle; to decoy; as, to rope in customers or voters.

Ropeverb

To prevent from winning (as a horse), by pulling or curbing.

Ropenoun

a strong line

Ropenoun

street names for flunitrazepan

Ropeverb

catch with a lasso;

Ropeverb

fasten with a rope;

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.