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Lasso vs. Rope — What's the Difference?

Lasso vs. Rope — What's the Difference?

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Lasso

A lasso ( or ), also called lariat, riata, or reata (all from Castilian, la reata 're-tied rope'), is a loop of rope designed as a restraint to be thrown around a target and tightened when pulled. It is a well-known tool of the Spanish and Mexican cowboy, then adopted by the cowboys of the United States.

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.

Lasso

A long rope with a running noose at one end, used especially to catch horses and cattle. Also called lariat.

Rope

A flexible heavy cord of tightly intertwined hemp or other fiber.

Lasso

To catch, tie, or attach with or as if with a lasso.
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Rope

A string of items attached in one line, especially by twisting or braiding
A rope of onions.

Lasso

A long rope with a sliding loop on one end, generally used in ranching to catch cattle and horses.

Rope

A sticky glutinous formation of stringy matter in a liquid.

Lasso

(computing) An image-editing function allowing the user to capture an irregularly-shaped object by drawing an approximate outline.

Rope

A cord with a noose at one end for hanging a person.

Lasso

(transitive) To catch with a lasso.

Rope

Execution or death by hanging
To die by the rope.

Lasso

A rope or long thong of leather with a running noose, used for catching horses, cattle, etc.

Rope

A lasso or lariat.

Lasso

To catch with a lasso.

Rope

Ropes(Sports) Several cords strung between poles to enclose a boxing or wrestling ring.

Lasso

Belgian composer (1532-1594)

Rope

Ropes(Informal) Specialized procedures or details
Learn the ropes.
Know the ropes.

Lasso

A long noosed rope used to catch animals

Rope

(Baseball) A line drive.

Lasso

Catch with a lasso;
Rope cows

Rope

To tie, fasten, or attach with a rope or other cord.

Rope

To enclose, separate, or partition with a rope or other cord
Rope off the scene of the crime.

Rope

To catch with a rope or lasso.

Rope

(Informal) To persuade or manipulate (someone)
My boss roped me into attending the ceremony.

Rope

(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.

Rope

(countable) An individual length of such material.
The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes.

Rope

A cohesive strand of something.
The duchess wore a rope of pearls to the soirée.

Rope

A shot of semen that a man releases during ejaculation.

Rope

(dated) A continuous stream.

Rope

(baseball) A hard line drive.
He hit a rope past third and into the corner.

Rope

(ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.

Rope

(computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.

Rope

A kind of chaff material dropped to interfere with radar consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.

Rope

(Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.

Rope

(jewelry) A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.

Rope

(nautical) Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.

Rope

(archaic) A unit of length equal to 20 feet.

Rope

(slang) Rohypnol.

Rope

Semen being ejaculated.

Rope

(with "the") Death by hanging.
The murderer was sentenced to the rope.

Rope

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

Rope

(transitive) To tie (something) with rope.
The robber roped the victims.

Rope

(transitive) To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).
The cowboy roped the calf.

Rope

(intransitive) To climb by means of a rope or ropes.

Rope

(intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.

Rope

To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.
My life is a mess; I might as well rope.

Rope

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.

Rope

A row or string consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc.; as, a rope of onions.

Rope

The small intestines; as, the ropes of birds.

Rope

To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread, as by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality.
Let us not hang like ropingiciclesUpon our houses' thatch.

Rope

To bind, fasten, or tie with a rope or cord; as, to rope a bale of goods.

Rope

To connect or fasten together, as a party of mountain climbers, with a rope.

Rope

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.

Rope

To lasso (a steer, horse).

Rope

To draw, as with a rope; to entice; to inveigle; to decoy; as, to rope in customers or voters.

Rope

To prevent from winning (as a horse), by pulling or curbing.

Rope

A strong line

Rope

Street names for flunitrazepan

Rope

Catch with a lasso;
Rope cows

Rope

Fasten with a rope;
Rope the bag securely

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