English-Spanish translations for rope

cuerdaEstá claro que en esta materia, como en otras, a menudo estamos dispuestos a comprar la cuerda que servirá para colgarnos. It is clear that in this area, as in many others, we are often ready to give ourselves enough rope to hang ourselves. Abrieron las puertas, quitaron la cuerda que las enganchaba y 20 minutos después las habían vuelto a cerrar y a enganchar. They unlocked them, took off the rope that was binding them and then 20 minutes later they were locked and bound again. No obstante, este se muestra muy selectivo; después de todo, no se debe hablar de cuerdas en la casa de un ahorcado. This report, though, is very selective – after all, you do not talk about rope in the house of a man who hanged himself.
sogaInsistió en colocarle él mismo la soga alrededor del cuello. He insisted upon placing the rope around her neck himself.

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
A continuous stream
A hard line drive
A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand
A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second
A necklace of at least 1 meter in length
A unit of length equal to 20 feet
A shot of semen that a man releases during ejaculation
To tie with rope
To throw a rope around (something
To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread
To commit suicide

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