strop
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Same as strap (which see); recorded in English since 1702. The verb sense referring to honing a sharp edge is recorded since 1842.
Noun edit
strop (plural strops)
- A strap; more specifically a piece of leather or a substitute (notably canvas), or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for honing a razor.
- Synonym: razor strop
- (nautical) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
|
Verb edit
strop (third-person singular simple present strops, present participle stropping, simple past and past participle stropped)
- To hone (a razor or knife) with a strop.
- Coordinate term: lap (verb)
- One should strop the razor before each shave.
- 1891, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, chapter 1, in The Blue Pavilions:
- The barber—a round, bustling fellow—stropped his razor and prattled gossip.
- (obsolete) To strap.
Translations edit
Etymology 2 edit
Back-formation from stroppy
Noun edit
strop (plural strops)
- (British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Commonwealth) A bad mood or temper.
Synonyms edit
Translations edit
Etymology 3 edit
From apostrophe, due to use of apostrophes as single quotation marks to indicate boldface in ALGOL 60.[1] Other methods were used, especially in ALGOL 68, where the earlier matched apostrophes were no longer common,[2] and the term became used more generally for any such method.
Verb edit
strop (third-person singular simple present strops, present participle stropping, simple past and past participle stropped)
- (computing) To mark a sequence of letters syntactically as having a special property, such as being a keyword, e.g. by enclosing in apostrophes as in
'foo'or writing in uppercase as inFOO.
Etymology 4 edit
Noun edit
strop (plural strops)
- (slang) A poor-quality or unsaleable diamond.
- 2005, Renée Rose Shield, Diamond Stories: Enduring Change on 47th Street, page 156:
- […] he almost fell out of the phone booth laughing and said to her, 'Boy, did my son buy a strop! Did he get stuck!'
References edit
- ^ Proceedings of an International Conference on ALGOL 68 Implementation: Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, June 18-20, 1974, ed. Peter R. King, University of Manitoba. Dept. of Computer Science, p. 148 – More serious problems are posed by "stropping," the technique used to distinguish boldface text from roman text. Some implementations demand apostrophes around boldface (whence the name stropping); others require backspacing and underlining; ...
- ^ Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68, p. 123, footnote
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “strop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams edit
Aromanian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Probably from Latin stroppus,[1] from Ancient Greek στρόφος (stróphos, “rope”), from στρέφω (stréphō, “to twist”).
Noun edit
strop n (plural stroapi or stroape)
Synonyms edit
References edit
Czech edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stropъ. Compare obsolete Bulgarian строп (strop, “floor, storey”), Serbo-Croatian strȍp (which may be borrowed from Czech).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
strop m inan
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
Danish edit
Etymology edit
Probably borrowed via West Germanic (such as Middle Low German) from Old French estrope (“snare”), from Medieval Latin stroppus, stropus (“band, strap”).
Noun edit
strop c (singular definite stroppen, plural indefinite stropper)
Inflection edit
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | strop | stroppen | stropper | stropperne |
| genitive | strops | stroppens | stroppers | stroppernes |
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Dutch strop, probably borrowed via Old French estrope (“snare”) from Medieval Latin stroppus, stropus (“band, strap”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
strop m (plural stroppen, diminutive stropje n)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Negerhollands: strop
Anagrams edit
Piedmontese edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
strop m
Polish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stropъ.
Noun edit
strop m inan
- (construction) ceiling
- (geology) roof (the upper part of a cavity)
Declension edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
strop
Further reading edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
From stropi.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
strop m (plural stropi)
- drop; droplet (of liquid)
- (figurative) a small quantity of something, such as a grain
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- strop in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stropъ.
Noun edit
strȍp m (Cyrillic spelling стро̏п)
Declension edit
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | strop | stropovi |
| genitive | stropa | stropova |
| dative | stropu | stropovima |
| accusative | strop | stropove |
| vocative | strope | stropovi |
| locative | stropu | stropovima |
| instrumental | stropom | stropovima |
Slovene edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Slavic *stropъ.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
strȍp m inan
- ceiling (highest portion of room)
Inflection edit
 |
The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks. |
| Masculine inan., hard o-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nom. sing. | stròp | ||
| gen. sing. | strôpa | ||
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
stròp | strôpa | strôpi |
| genitive (rodȋlnik) |
strôpa | strôpov | strôpov |
| dative (dajȃlnik) |
strôpu | strôpoma | strôpom |
| accusative (tožȋlnik) |
stròp | strôpa | strôpe |
| locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
strôpu | strôpih | strôpih |
| instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
strôpom | strôpoma | strôpi |
This noun needs an inflection-table template.