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1 de dic. de 2012 · We do not mention the rope, though we mean that the rope is being used. In the US, I believe, the name of the activity is 'jumping rope' or perhaps 'skipping rope'. A few examples: MedicineNet.com: Jumping rope is a great calorie-burner. You'd have to run an eight-minute mile to work off more calories than you'd burn jumping rope.
Hello The Rabbit: "Take this rope in your trunk, and I will tie the other end to my cow. You must pull as hard as you can, for the cow is very heavy." The Elephant: "Huh!" trumpeted the elephant, "I'll pull her out, or break the rope." Is "break the rope" a correct collocation? Or should we...
26 de abr. de 2008 · Regardless of what the data may prove 20 years from now about polycarbonates, there’s no sense in pushing a rope uphill on that. (source) Is that an idiom? I can't find it in dictionaries. Maybe it's not a common expression? What does the expression mean?
16 de ene. de 2014 · What I want to know is when a person is hanging "on" a rope (he's in the air), if you can say he's hanging from that rope, and viceversa. The same question about swinging on a liana and swinging from a liana. Specifically I have these 4 coloring pages. *On the first one, you can find Diego from Dora the explorer "hanging on a rope" (in the air).
2006-05-17 string,rope和cord的区别？ 77 2017-04-20 cord和string的区别？ 2012-10-25 rope和line的区别是什么 8 2008-07-12 string 和 thread 的区别 7 2015-01-20 string.line.rope.thread区别 2 2012-02-26 LINE IN是什么意思 479 2012-04-29 请问thread到底是什么意思？ 62 2009-08-17 string 是可数还是不可数 53
5 de sept. de 2010 · Both sentences, 'This rope is three times as long as that one' & 'This rope is three times longer than that one' are correct uses of English to mean two different things. Either sentences can be used but in different circumstances.
8 de feb. de 2007 · grasp- to physically hold something in your hand(s) Ex. Grasp the rope tightly and hold on/don't let go. seize- to take by force; Ex. The dictator seized power years ago. take- (the most neutral/most common) to have in one's hands Ex. Take this and give it to your father.
18 de mar. de 2015 · If I couldn't use "during," I'd rewrite the sentence. Neither "in" nor "on" is correct. If you mean that the teachers are to use their break times to supervise the school grounds, you could say "Teachers should superintend school grounds on their break time," but I took your original sentence to mean that it was the students' break time, not the teachers'.
6 de jun. de 2007 · Eg.: five-yard-long rope; six-foot-tall man; ten-year-old boy. If the description comes after the verb you don't use hyphens and you use the plural form of the measurement. Eg: the rope is five yards long; the man is six feet tall; the boy is ten years old.
9 de abr. de 2009 · rasari aawat jaat te, sil par parat nisaan: rasari = rassi = rope. sil = stone. aawat jaat te = aane jaane se. parat nisaan = nishaan pad jaata hai. So, the whole thing together means: Persistence makes even a dumb man intelligent, just like (even) a soft rope, when rubbed continuously on stone, makes a mark on it.
