noun

• (uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
  "Nylon rope is usually stronger than similar rope made of plant fibers."
• (countable) An individual length of such material.
  "The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes."
• (dated) A continuous stream.
  "The principle of any such device should be to pull on the vessel by a rope of water passing in at the bow and out at the stern."
• (baseball) A hard line drive.
  "He hit a rope past third and into the corner."

verb

• (transitive) To tie (something) with rope.
  "The robber roped the victims."
• (transitive) To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).
  "The cowboy roped the calf."
• (intransitive) To climb by means of a rope or ropes.
  "We roped down to the platform selected for the bivouac; set up our bags and brewed a reasonable meal."
• (intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
  "Let us not hang like roping icicles / Upon our houses' thatch."

noun

• (in the plural) The small intestines.
  "the ropes of birds"