Rope

Definition

rope /rǝƱp/ n ၁။ [C, U] ႀကိဳး။ We tied his feet together with (a) rope. ❍ coils of rope on the quayside ❍ They tied a (piece of) rope to the branch and used it as a swing. See also SKIPPING-ROPE, TOW-ROPE ❍ boxing ၂။ [C] တစ္ကံုး။ a rope of onions/pearls. ၃။ the rope [sing] ( infml or rhet ) ႀကိဳးဒဏ္။ bring back the rope (ie the death penalty). v ခ်ည္ေႏွာင္သည္။ တုပ္ေႏွာင္သည္။ ခ်ည္သည္။ တုပ္သည္။ ႀကိဳးႏွင့္တည္းသည္။ climbers roped together for safety ❍ They roped her to a chair. ❏ give sb enough rope [ IDM ] လႊတ္သာေပးထားလိုက္ (သူ႕တရားသူစီရင္သြားလိမ့္မယ္)။ He's a fool—give him enough rope and he's sure to hang himself. ❏ give sb plenty of/some rope [ IDM ] သူ႕လက္သူ႕ေျခ လံုးဝလုပ္ခြင့္ေပးသည္ (သို႔) လုပ္ပိုင္ခြင့္ေပးသည္။ ❏ on the ropes [ IDM ] ( infml ) (လက္ေဝွ႔ထိုးရာတြင္) ႀကိဳးဝိုင္း ကိုေက်ာမီွၿပီး အလူးအလဲခုခံေနရသည္။ [ဥ] အလူးအလဲခံေနရ သည္။ ( fig ) After a string of by-election defeats the government is clearly on the ropes. ❏ rope sb in (to do sth) [ PHRV ] ( infml ) (esp passive) 'ေခ်ာဆြဲ'သြားသည္။ All her friends have been roped in to help with the show. ❏ rope-ladder n ႀကိဳးေလွကား။ ❏ rope sth off [ PHRV ] ႀကိဳး၊ ႀကိဳးျပားျဖင့္ ပိုင္းကန္႔ ကာရံ သည္။ rope off the scene of the accident. ❏ show sb/know/learn the ropes [ IDM ] လုပ္ငန္းအထာ က်ေအာင္ ျပသေပးသည္။ အထာသိသည္/ ေလ့က်က္သည္။ She's just joined the department—it'll take her a week or two to learn the ropes.

Examples

1. One of the men tied a rope to a tree.
2. A rope of pearls