Rote vs. Rope

Rotenoun

The process of learning or committing something to memory through mechanical repetition, usually by hearing and repeating aloud, often without full attention to comprehension or thought for the meaning.

Rotenoun

Mechanical routine; a fixed, habitual, repetitive, or mechanical course of procedure.

Rotenoun

(rare) The roar of the surf; the sound of waves breaking on the shore.

Rotenoun

(musical instrument) A kind of guitar, the notes of which were produced by a small wheel or wheel-like arrangement; an instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.

Rotenoun

synonym of crowd

Roteadjective

By repetition or practice.

Roteverb

(obsolete) To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.

Roteverb

(transitive) To learn or repeat by rote.

Rotenoun

A root.

Rotenoun

A kind of guitar, the notes of which were produced by a small wheel or wheel-like arrangement; an instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.

Rotenoun

The noise produced by the surf of the sea dashing upon the shore. See Rut.

Rotenoun

A frequent repetition of forms of speech without attention to the meaning; mere repetition; as, to learn rules by rote.

Roteverb

To learn or repeat by rote.

Roteverb

To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.

Rotenoun

memorization by repetition

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.