Definition of rope

"rope" in the noun sense

1. rope

a strong line

2. R-2, Mexican valium, rophy, rope, roofy, roach, forget me drug, circle

street names for flunitrazepan

"rope" in the verb sense

1. lasso, rope

catch with a lasso

"rope cows"

2. rope, leash

fasten with a rope

"rope the bag securely"

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Quotations for rope

To twist a rope of sand. [ Proverb ]

Throw the rope in after the bucket. [ Proverb ]

Who more than he is worth does spend,
He makes a rope his life to end. [ Proverb ]

Let us not throw the rope after the bucket. [ Cervantes ]

Give him but rope enough and he'll hang himself. [ Proverb ]

A rope and butter; if one slip, the other will hold. [ Proverb ]

You will dance at the end of a rope without teaching. [ Proverb ]

He pulls with a long rope that waits for another's death. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A thread will tie an honest man better than a rope will do a rogue. [ Scotch Proverb ]

I thought I had given her rope enough, said Petley when he hanged his mare. [ Proverb ]

The history of persecution is a history of endeavor to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand. [ Emerson ]

Grammarian, rhetorician, geometrician, painter, anointer, augur, tight-rope dancer, physician, magician - he knows everything. [ Juv ]

A sentence well couched takes both the sense and the understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom. [ Feltham ]

Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and borrow to her aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand. [ Milton ]

rope in Scrabble®

The word rope is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters rope:

PORE
(27)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word rope

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The 138 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In rope

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rope in Words With Friends™

The word rope is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters rope:

PORE
(45)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word rope

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The 150 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In rope

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Words containing the sequence rope

Words with rope in them (146 words)

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Word Growth involving rope

Shorter words in rope

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Longer words containing rope

acropetal

backrope backropes

checkrope checkropes

enteropeptidase enteropeptidases

exothyropexies

exothyropexy

grope dragrope dragropes

grope groped

grope groper gropers sandgropers

grope groper sandgroper sandgropers

grope gropes dragropes

grope hygropetric

headrope headropes

lycanthrope lycanthropes

micropegmatite micropegmatites

micropegmatitic

micropenis

misanthrope misanthropes

nephropexies

nephropexy

neuropeptide neuropeptides

oophoropexies

oophoropexy

propel propellable

propel propellant bipropellant bipropellants

propel propellant monopropellant monopropellants

propel propellant propellants bipropellants

propel propellant propellants monopropellants

propel propelled jetpropelled

propel propelled selfpropelled

propel propellent propellents

propel propeller propellers selfpropellers

propel propeller propellers singlepropellers

propel propeller selfpropeller selfpropellers

propel propeller singlepropeller singlepropellers

propel propelling selfpropelling

propel propellor propellors

propel propels sapropels

propel propels selfpropels

propel sapropel sapropelic

propel sapropel sapropelite sapropelites

propel sapropel sapropelitic

propel sapropel sapropels

propel selfpropel selfpropelled

propel selfpropel selfpropeller selfpropellers

propel selfpropel selfpropelling

propel selfpropel selfpropels

propene cyclopropene cyclopropenes methylcyclopropenes

propene cyclopropene methylcyclopropene methylcyclopropenes

propene phenylpropene phenylpropenes

propene polypropene polypropenes

propene propenes cyclopropenes methylcyclopropenes

propene propenes phenylpropenes

propene propenes polypropenes

propenol propenols

propensities

propensity

propenultimate

propeptide

pyrope pyropes

ropeable

ropebark ropebarks

roped dextropedal

roped groped

roped ropedance ropedanced

roped ropedance ropedancer ropedancers

roped ropedance ropedances

roped ropedancing

roped tightroped

ropelayer ropelayers

ropelaying

ropeless

ropelike

ropemaker ropemakers

ropemaking

ropeman

ropemen

roper electropermeabilisation electropermeabilisations

roper electropermeabilise electropermeabilised

roper electropermeabilise electropermeabilises

roper electropermeabilising

roper electropermeabilization electropermeabilizations

roper electropermeabilize electropermeabilized

roper electropermeabilize electropermeabilizes

roper electropermeabilizing

roper ferropericlase ferropericlases

roper groper gropers sandgropers

roper groper sandgroper sandgropers

roper hydroperoxide hydroperoxides

roper interoperability

roper interoperable noninteroperable

roper macroperforate

roper overoperate overoperated

roper overoperate overoperates

roper overoperating

roper pleuropericardial

roper pleuroperitoneal

roper pleuroperitoneum

roper proper improper improperly

roper proper properer

roper proper properest

roper proper properly improperly

roper proper properness

roper proper propertied

roper proper properties

roper proper property propertyless

roper retroperitoneal

roper ropers gropers sandgropers

roper ropers tightropers

roper sacroperineal

roper tightroper tightropers

ropes backropes

ropes checkropes

ropes gropes dragropes

ropes headropes

ropes lycanthropes

ropes misanthropes

ropes pyropes

ropes ropesmith ropesmithing

ropes ropesmith ropesmiths

ropes ropesplicer ropesplicers

ropes tailropes

ropes topropes

ropes towropes

ropes tropes allotropes

ropes tropes anisometropes

ropes tropes azeotropes polyazeotropes

ropes tropes breastropes

ropes tropes chromotropes

ropes tropes heliotropes

ropes tropes rheotropes

ropes tropes thixotropes

ropes tropes tightropes

ropes tropes zoetropes

ropetrick ropetricks

ropewalk ropewalked

ropewalk ropewalker ropewalkers

ropewalk ropewalking

ropewalk ropewalks

ropeway ropeways

ropework ropeworks

ropey

sideropenia

tailrope tailropes

toprope topropes

towrope towropes

trope allotrope allotropes

trope anisometrope anisometropes

trope azeotrope azeotropes polyazeotropes

trope azeotrope polyazeotrope polyazeotropes

trope breastrope breastropes

trope dextropedal

trope electropermeabilisation electropermeabilisations

trope electropermeabilise electropermeabilised

trope electropermeabilise electropermeabilises

trope electropermeabilising

trope electropermeabilization electropermeabilizations

trope electropermeabilize electropermeabilized

trope electropermeabilize electropermeabilizes

trope electropermeabilizing

trope gastropexies

trope gastropexy

trope gonadotrope

trope heliotrope heliotropes

trope neutropenia neutropenias

trope neutropenic

trope retroperitoneal

trope rheotrope rheotropes

trope thixotrope thixotropes

trope tightrope tightroped

trope tightrope tightroper tightropers

trope tightrope tightropes

trope tropes allotropes

trope tropes anisometropes

trope tropes azeotropes polyazeotropes

trope tropes breastropes

trope tropes chromotropes

trope tropes heliotropes

trope tropes rheotropes

trope tropes thixotropes

trope tropes tightropes

trope tropes zoetropes

trope zoetrope zoetropes

ureteropelvic

urethropexies

urethropexy