Rope is a manufactured piece of any length. A line is a segment of a full
piece of rope.

On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:28:49 -0600, "SteveB"
wrote:

Rope is a manufactured piece of any length. A line is a segment of a full
piece of rope.


Actually, it's the shortest distance between two points.

Is fishing line a segment of a full piece of rope? Webster says line
is '...a rope used on shipboard'. Where did you get your definition?
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