strop

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Archived revision by This, that and the other (talk | contribs) as of 10:24, 5 June 2022.
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stɹɒp/
  • Audio (AU):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɒp

Etymology 1

Same as strap (which see); recorded in English since 1702.

Noun

strop (plural strops)

  1. 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, in this sense also called razor strop.
  2. (British) A bad mood or temper (see stroppy.)
  3. (nautical) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.
Synonyms
Translations

Verb

strop (third-person singular simple present strops, present participle stropping, simple past and past participle stropped)

  1. (obsolete) To strap.
  2. (recorded since 1842; now most used) To hone (a razor) with a strop.
    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.
Translations

Etymology 2

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

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

strop (third-person singular simple present strops, present participle stropping, simple past and past participle stropped)

  1. (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 in FOO.

Etymology 3

Noun

strop (plural strops)

  1. (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

  1. ^ 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; ...
  2. ^ Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68, p. 123, footnote

Anagrams

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Probably from Latin stroppus[1], from Ancient Greek στρόφος (stróphos, “rope”), from στρέφω (stréphō, “to twist”).

Noun

strop n (plural stroapi or stroape)

  1. pole
  2. stick
  3. (figurative) beating

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ http://www.scribd.com/doc/119066566/Al-Rosetti-Istoria-Limbii-Romane#scribd

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia cs

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stropъ. Compare obsolete Bulgarian строп (strop, “floor, storey”), Serbo-Croatian strȍp (which may be borrowed from Czech).

Pronunciation

Noun

Lua error in Module:cs-sk-headword at line 198: Invalid gender: 'm'; must specify animacy along with masculine gender

  1. ceiling

Declension

Template:cs-decl-noun

Antonyms

Derived terms

Further reading

Danish

Noun

strop c (singular definite stroppen, plural indefinite stropper)

  1. strap
  2. loop
  3. hanger

Inflection

Declension of strop
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative strop stroppen stropper stropperne
genitive strops stroppens stroppers stroppernes

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch strop.

Pronunciation

Noun

strop m (plural stroppen, diminutive stropje n)

  1. A noose
  2. (by metonymy) hanging (execution)
  3. (figuratively) bad luck, loss
  4. A loop
  5. A rascal, brat

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Negerhollands: strop

Anagrams

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

Noun

strop m

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
    Synonym: trop

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stropъ.

Pronunciation

Template:pl-p

Noun

strop m inan

  1. (construction) ceiling
  2. (geology) roof (the upper part of a cavity)

Declension

Declension of strop
singular plural
nominative strop stropy
genitive stropu stropów
dative stropowi stropom
accusative strop stropy
instrumental stropem stropami
locative stropie stropach
vocative stropie stropy

See also

Further reading

  • strop in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • strop in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From stropi.

Pronunciation

Noun

strop m (plural stropi)

  1. drop; droplet (of liquid)
  2. (figurative) a small quantity of something, such as a grain

Declension

Declension of strop
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) strop stropul (niște) stropi stropii
genitive/dative (unui) strop stropului (unor) stropi stropilor
vocative stropule stropilor

Derived terms

Further reading

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stropъ.

Noun

strȍp m (Cyrillic spelling стро̏п)

  1. A ceiling

Declension

Declension of strop
singular plural
nominative strop stropovi
genitive stropa stropova
dative stropu stropovima
accusative strop stropove
vocative strope stropovi
locative stropu stropovima
instrumental stropom stropovima

Antonyms

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stropъ.

Pronunciation

Noun

strȍp m inan

  1. ceiling (highest portion of room)

Inflection

 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.

Antonyms

Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=strop&oldid=67258207"