English

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.

Synonyms

• huff

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.

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

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Anagrams

• ports, sport, SPORT

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

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

Czech

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

strop m

1. ceiling

Declension

Antonyms

• podlaha f

Derived terms

• stropní

Danish

Noun

strop c (singular definite stroppen, plural indefinite stropper)

1. strap
2. loop
3. hanger

Inflection

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔp

Noun

strop m, f ‎(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

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

• (ceiling): sufit

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

Related terms

• stropi

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stropъ.

Noun

strȍp m ‎(Cyrillic spelling стро̏п)

1. A ceiling

Declension

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.