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strop

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English

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Etymology 1

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Same as strap (which see); recorded in English since 1702. The verb sense referring to honing a sharp edge is recorded since 1842.

Noun

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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.
    Synonym: razor strop
  2. (nautical) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.
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strop (third-person singular simple present strops, present participle stropping, simple past and past participle stropped)

  1. 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.
  2. (obsolete) To strap.
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Etymology 2

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Back-formation from stroppy

Noun

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strop (plural strops)

  1. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A bad mood or temper. A tantrum.
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Etymology 3

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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.

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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.

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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!'

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  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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Aromanian

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Etymology

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

Noun

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strop n (plural stroapi or stroape)

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

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

Czech

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Etymology

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

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strop m inan

  1. ceiling
    Antonym: podlaha f

Declension

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Declension of strop (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative strop stropy
genitive stropu stropů
dative stropu stropům
accusative strop stropy
vocative strope stropy
locative stropě, stropu stropech
instrumental stropem stropy

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Further reading

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  • “strop”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “strop”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • “strop”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Danish

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Etymology

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Probably borrowed via West Germanic (such as Middle Low German) from Old French estrope (“snare”), from Medieval Latin stroppus, stropus (“band, strap”).

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strop c (singular definite stroppen, plural indefinite stropper)

  1. strap
  2. loop
  3. hanger

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

Dutch

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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch strop, probably borrowed via Old French estrope (“snare”) from Medieval Latin stroppus, stropus (“band, strap”).

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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

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Descendants

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  • Negerhollands: strop

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Piedmontese

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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

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Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔp
  • Syllabification: strop

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stropъ.

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strop m inan

  1. (construction) ceiling
    1. (Far Masovian) Synonym of kalenica
  2. (geology) roof (upper part of a cavity)
Declension
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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

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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strop

  1. second-person singular imperative of stropić

Further reading

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  • strop in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • strop in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Stanisław Ciszewski (1909) “strop”, in “Przyczynek do słownika gwary mazowieckiej”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 7, z. 1, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 210

Romanian

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Etymology

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From stropi.

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Noun

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strop m (plural stropi)

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

Declension

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative strop stropul stropi stropii
genitive-dative strop stropului stropi stropilor
vocative stropule stropilor

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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stropъ.

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strȍp m (Cyrillic spelling стро̏п)

  1. A ceiling
    Antonym: pod

Declension

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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

Slovene

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Etymology

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From Proto-Slavic *stropъ.

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strȍp m inan

  1. ceiling (highest portion of room)

Inflection

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 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

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