strop

English

Pronunciation

  • 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. (Britain) 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.
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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.
Translations

Etymology 2

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.

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

  • stropu

Etymology

Probably from Latin stroppus[1].

Noun

strop n (plural stroapi or stroape)

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

Synonyms

  • shcop, ciumagã

References

Czech

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

strop m

  1. ceiling

Declension

Antonyms

Derived terms

  • stropní

Further reading

  • strop in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • strop in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Noun

strop c (singular definite stroppen, plural indefinite stropper)

  1. strap
  2. loop
  3. hanger

Inflection

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

Anagrams

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

See also

Romanian

Etymology

From stropi.

Noun

strop m (plural stropi)

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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stropъ.

Noun

strȍp m (Cyrillic spelling стро̏п)

  1. A ceiling

Declension

Antonyms

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stropъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstrɔ́p/
  • Tonal orthography: strȍp

Noun

stròp m inan (genitive strôpa, nominative plural strôpi)

  1. ceiling (highest portion of room)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Antonyms

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