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Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line. +

An individual length of such material.

A cohesive strand of something.

(dated) A continuous stream.

(baseball) A hard line drive.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(slang) Rohypnol.

(in plural) Semen being ejaculated.

(with "the") Death by hanging.

An apparatus, currently with limited use by the senior contestants and not used in world-wide tournaments.

(metonymically) An apparatus program with a rope.

To tie (something) with rope.

To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).

To climb by means of a rope or ropes.

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

To pull or restrain (the horse one is riding) to prevent it from winning a race.

To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.

(in the plural) The small intestines.