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What's the difference between string and rope?

Question

What’s the difference between string and rope? When does string get big enough to be called rope?
Gary, Bexley

Answer

** Definitive **
Name: Angus, Barnet
Qualification: Ex-Navy
Answer: It starts of as a fibre – a strand that cannot be separated any further. Six fibres is a yarn, six yarns is a twine, six twines is a rope, six ropes is a cable. String isn’t included in this.

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