1. ropes - Noun
2. ropes - Verb
plural of rope
(in the plural, with the) Basic skills of a job.
show the ropes, learn the ropes
ropes
third-person singular simple present indicative of rope
I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance. Arthur Rimbaud
That's what it's like when people have crawled very high up in a tree, then they sometimes need help to get down with ladders and ropes and other instruments. Anders Fogh Rasmussen
She is as in a field a silken tent At midday when a sunny summer breeze Has dried the dew and all its ropes relent, So that in guys it gently sways at ease. Robert Frost
It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged. Irish Proverb
Ropes that are too long become snakes. Corsican Proverb
Men are bound by words, bulls' horns by ropes. Latin Proverb