0 (a piece of) strong, thick string made of long twisted threads: --
1 to tie things together with rope: --
2 a strong, thick cord made of twisted fibers --
3 to tie something with rope: --
However, reliable nannies, mostly young women from the countryside, are hard to recruit and keep, once they have learned the ropes about life in the city.
Traps were made of square pieces of large-mesh polyethylene fabric tied by ropes to four neighbouring live trees, at about 1.5 m above ground to avoid disturbances by large mammals.
The only radical solution is to cut the ropes tying it to the fake, blowing it to pieces and putting the pieces together, in a new and revealing configuration.
In the volador ceremony, several individuals, whose feet were tied to long ropes wrapped around a tall pole, leapt off the pole to "fly" in circles as the ropes unwound.
Echoing the tangle of ropes at the beginning of the novel, entanglement again serves as emblem of indeterminacy - of the unpredictable and unknowable in a world of mixed phenomena.
Over time, each manufacturer learned the ropes of heavily regulated markets and adapted sales and marketing strategies to the prevailing regulatory framework in existence in each country.
Fences (80 cm in height) used to enclose quadrats were made of flexible fine plastic mesh sheets attached to plastic ropes at the top and metal chains at the bottom.
Unweaned calves are tied by ropes.