The difference between Rope and Tie
When used as nouns, rope means thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line, whereas tie means a knot.
When used as verbs, rope means to tie (something) with something, whereas tie means to twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
check bellow for the other definitions of Rope and Tie
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Rope as a noun (uncountable):
Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
Examples:
"Nylon rope is usually stronger than similar rope made of plant fibers."
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Rope as a noun (countable):
An individual length of such material.
Examples:
"The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes."
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Rope as a noun:
A cohesive strand of something.
Examples:
"The duchess wore a rope of pearls to the soirée."
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Rope as a noun (dated):
A continuous stream.
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Rope as a noun (baseball):
A hard line drive.
Examples:
"He hit a rope past third and into the corner."
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Rope as a noun (ceramics):
A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
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Rope as a noun (computer science):
A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
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Rope as a noun (Jainism):
A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.
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Rope as a noun (jewelry):
A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.
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Rope as a noun (nautical):
Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
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Rope as a noun (archaic):
A unit of length equal to 20 feet.
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Rope as a noun (slang):
Flunitrazepam, also known as Rohypnol.
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Rope as a noun (slang, vulgar):
A shot of semen that a man releases during ejaculation.
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Rope as a noun (in the plural):
The small intestines.
Examples:
"the ropes of birds"
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Rope as a verb (transitive):
To tie (something) with something.
Examples:
"The robber roped the victims."
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Rope as a verb (transitive):
To throw a rope around (something).
Examples:
"The cowboy roped the calf."
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Rope as a verb (intransitive):
To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
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Rope as a verb (slang):
To commit suicide.
Examples:
"My life is a mess, I might as well rope."
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Tie as a noun:
A knot; a fastening.
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Tie as a noun:
A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
Examples:
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Tie as a noun:
A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.
Examples:
"synonyms: necktie"
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Tie as a noun:
The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
Examples:
"synonyms: draw"
"It's two outs in the bottom of the ninth, tie score."
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Tie as a noun:
A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which is wound around something and tightened.
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Tie as a noun:
A strong connection between people or groups of people.
Examples:
"synonyms: bond"
"the sacred ties of friendship or of duty"
"the ties of allegiance"
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Tie as a noun (construction):
A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
Examples:
"'Ties work to maintain structural integrity in windstorms and earthquakes."
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Tie as a noun (rail transport, US):
A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.
Examples:
"synonyms: sleeper q1=British"
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Tie as a noun (cricket):
The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).
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Tie as a noun (sports, British):
A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
Examples:
"The FA Cup third round tie between Liverpool and Cardiff was their first meeting in the competition since 1957."
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Tie as a noun (music):
A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a single note with the combined length of both notes.
Examples:
"coordinate terms slur"
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Tie as a noun (statistics):
One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
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Tie as a noun (surveying):
A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
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Tie as a noun (graph theory):
A connection between two vertices.
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Tie as a verb (transitive):
To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
Examples:
"'Tie this rope in a knot for me, please."
"'Tie the rope to this tree."
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Tie as a verb (transitive):
To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
Examples:
"'Tie a knot in this rope for me, please."
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Tie as a verb (transitive):
To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
Examples:
"'Tie him to the tree."
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Tie as a verb (transitive):
To secure (something) by string or the like.
Examples:
"'Tie your shoes."
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Tie as a verb (transitive, or, intransitive):
To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
Examples:
"They tied for third place."
"They tied the game."
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Tie as a verb (US, transitive):
To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
Examples:
"He tied me for third place."
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Tie as a verb (music):
To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.