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ope n. 1 line, cord, cable, hawser; strand, string: This rope is
too light for mooring the boat. She wore a rope of baroque
pearls. 2 the ropes. the routine, the procedure, one's way
around, the ins and outs; the truth, the (real) situation;
Colloq what's what, the score, Brit the gen: It didn't take her
long to learn the ropes.
--v. 3 tie, bind, lash, hitch, fasten, secure; tether, attach:
Rope these two crates together. The horses were roped to the
post. 4 rope in. attract, draw (in), tempt, entice, lure,
persuade: They are going to use a lottery to rope the customers
in to supporting our cause.
ropy adj. 1 ropey, viscous, stringy, viscid, glutinous,
mucilaginous, gluey, gummy, thready, fibrous, filamentous: The
plastic resin emerging from the vat looks somewhat ropy, like
mozzarella cheese. 2 questionable, inadequate, inferior,
deficient, indifferent, mediocre, substandard, unsatisfactory,
poor, sketchy: Greenwood's plan for increasing profit margins
looks pretty ropy to me. 3 sickly, ill, unwell, hung-over, below
par, out of sorts, Colloq under the weather, poorly, rough, not
up to snuff, off one's feed: I was feeling pretty ropy on
Saturday morning after that do at your place on Friday.
rostrum n. platform, stage, dais, podium, stand; pulpit; lectern,
reading-stand: As the crowd hooted and booed, the speaker
descended from the rostrum.
rosy adj. 1 pink, rose-coloured, red, roseate, reddish, pinkish,
cherry, cerise, ruddy, flushed, glowing, blushing, ruby,
rubicund, florid; rose-red: During the skiing holiday, they all
developed healthy rosy complexions. 2 optimistic, promising,
favourable, auspicious, hopeful, encouraging, sunny, bright:
Caldwell has a rosy future ahead of him.
rot v. 1 decay, decompose, fester, spoil, go bad or off, be
tainted, be ruined, mould, moulder, putrefy; corrode, rust,
disintegrate, deteriorate, crumble or go or fall to pieces:
When the power went off, all the food in the freezer rotted. The
piers holding up the far end of the bridge have all rotted away.
2 waste away, wither away, languish, die, moulder, decline,
deteriorate, degenerate, decay, atrophy: Despite repeated
appeals for clemency, he's been rotting away in jail all these