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  1. ropesnoun

    Plural form of rope.

Wikipedia

  1. ropes

    A rope is a group of yarns, plies, fibres, 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. Rope is thicker and stronger than similarly constructed cord, string, and twine.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. ropes

    A general name given to all the cordage above one inch in circumference used in rigging a ship; but the name is severally applied to the awning, bell, boat, bolt, breast, bucket, buoy, davit, entering, grapnel, guest or guist, guy, heel, keel, man, parral, passing, ring, rudder, slip, swab, tiller, top, and yard: all which see under their respective heads. Ropes are of several descriptions, viz.:--Cable-laid, consists of three strands of already formed hawser-laid or twisted left-hand, laid up into one opposite making nine strands.--Hawser-laid, is merely three strands of simple yarns twisted right, but laid up left.--Four-strand is similarly laid with four strands, and a core scarcely twisted.--Sash-line is plaited and used for signal halliards.--Rope-yarn is understood to be the selected serviceable yarns from condemned rope, and is worked into twice-laid. The refuse, again, into rumbowline for temporary purposes, not demanding strength.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. ROPES

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Ropes is ranked #104602 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Ropes surname appeared 171 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Ropes.

    91.2% or 156 total occurrences were White.
    4.6% or 8 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

Anagrams for ropes »

  1. opers

  2. pores

  3. poser

  4. preso

  5. prose

  6. pro se

  7. reops

  8. spore

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ropes in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ropes in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of ropes in a Sentence

  1. Andrew Olvera:

    Andrew Olvera, an urban search and rescue member with the U.S. Agency for International Development's Disaster Assistance Response Team, said shortly before the boy was freed. Twisted ropes of steel reinforcing rods were all that stopped huge concrete slabs from falling onto the scene. Two concrete floors hung down in front of the building like curtains. The whole operation is dangerous, but it's risk versus gain. To save a human life, we'll risk almost anything.

  2. Douglas Kurylowicz:

    While I was on the phone with 911, people were getting ropes and things to try and help her( the driver).

  3. Terry Schappert:

    We had all these different kinds of shots against hangman’s ropes, with the period guns you saw in the film, to get to use those weapons and to play the role of Clint Eastwood in those scenes, it was so much fun.

  4. Josh Morris:

    The goal is to try and find the chimney, drill some bolts, put some ropes in and rappel down into different chimneys to wiggle down into the cave maze to see if we can get to the main passage, the key is finding the right hole. If you find the right hole it may not take very long. It's just whether you can find the right hole because they are all over the hillside.

  5. Attorney Casey Yontz:

    It feels like there is this battle that Christianity is facing right now, it feels like we’re on the ropes, and seeing this email confirms that – the fact that it was written so freely. This type of discrimination – it’s becoming the norm.

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