strop

English

Pronunciation

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• 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

• huff

Translations

strap

• Czech: obtahovací řemen m
• Danish: rem (da) c, (razor) strygerem c
• Dutch: riem (nl) m, (razor) scheerriem m
• French: lanière (fr) f
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• German: Riemen (de) m
• Italian: coramella (it) f, affilarasoio m
• Macedonian: ремен m (remen)
• Swedish: strigel c

bad mood

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rope

• French: estrope (fr) f
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• Ido: stropo (io) f

Verb

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.

Translations

To strap

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To sharpen with a strop

• Danish: stryge (da)
• Dutch: wetten (nl)
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• Swedish: strigla

Etymology 2

From apostrophe, due to use of apostrophes as single quotation marks to indicate boldface in ALGOL 60. Other methods were used, especially in ALGOL 68, where the earlier matched apostrophes were no longer common, and the term became used more generally for any such method.

Verb

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

• Etymology on line

Anagrams

• Ports, Prost, SPORT, ports, sport, torps, trops.

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Aromanian

Alternative forms

• stropu

Etymology

Probably from Latin stroppus, 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

• shcop, ciumagã

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Czech

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈstrop]

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Noun

1. ceiling

Antonyms

• podlaha f

Derived terms

• stropní

Further reading

• Template:R:PSJC
• Template:R:SSJC

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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

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɔp

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

• stropdas

Anagrams

• sport, sprot

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Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stropъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strɔp/

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

• (ceiling): sufit

Further reading

• strop in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Template:R:PWN

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Romanian

Etymology

From stropi.

Noun

strop m (plural stropi)

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

Related terms

• stropi

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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

• pod

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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stropъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strɔ́p/

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

• tla
• pod