different between strap vs hoop

English

Alternative forms

• strop, strope

Etymology

From a variant of earlier strope (“loop on a harness”), from Middle English strope, stropp, from Late Old English strop, stropp (“a band, thong, strap; oar-thong”) and Old French estrope (“strap, loop on a harness”), both from Latin stroppus, struppus (“strap”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (stróphos, “rope”), from ?????? (stréph?, “to twist”). Cognate with Scots strap, strop (“strap, band, thong”), Dutch strop (“noose, strop, loop”), Low German Strop (“strap”), German Struppe, Strüppe, Strippe (“string, cord”), Danish strop (“strap”), Swedish stropp (“strap, loop”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?æp/
• Rhymes: -æp

Noun

strap (countable and uncountable, plural straps)

1. A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
   1. A strap worn on the shoulder.
2. A strip of thick leather used in flogging.
3. Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use.
4. A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge of a razor; a strop.
5. A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.
   1. (carpentry, machinery) A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
   2. (nautical) A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.
6. (botany) The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
7. (botany) The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
8. (slang) A gun, normally a personal firearm such as a pistol or machine pistol.
9. (slang, uncountable, archaic) Credit offered to a customer, especially for alcoholic drink.
10. (journalism) Synonym of strapline
11. (slang, professional wrestling, with "the") A championship belt, or by extension, the title.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (sutorappu)

Translations

Verb

strap (third-person singular simple present straps, present participle strapping, simple past and past participle strapped)

1. (transitive) To beat or chastise with a strap; to whip, to lash.
2. (transitive) To fasten or bind with a strap.
3. (transitive) To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop

Derived terms

• strap on a pair
• strap-on

Translations

Anagrams

• TRAPS, parts, prats, rapts, sprat, tarps, traps

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strap/

Verb

strap

1. second-person singular imperative of strapi?

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ho?op, IPA^(key): /hu?p/
• Rhymes: -u?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English hoop, hoope, from Old English h?p (“mound, raised land; in combination, circular object”), from Proto-Germanic *h?p? (“bend, bow, arch”) (compare Saterland Frisian Houp (“hoop”), Dutch hoep (“hoop”), Old Norse hóp (“bay, inlet”)), from Proto-Indo-European *k?b- (“to bend”) (compare Lithuanian kab? (“hook”), Old Church Slavonic ???? (k?p?, “hill, island”)). More at camp.

Noun

hoop (plural hoops)

1. A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
2. A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop.

   the cheese hoop, or cylinder in which the curd is pressed in making cheese

3. A circular band of metal, wood, or similar material used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
4. (now chiefly historical) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; (hence, by extension) a hoop petticoat or hoop skirt.
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 16:

     He took the removed chair and drew it so near mine, squatting in it with his ugly weight, that he pressed upon my hoop.
5. A quart pot; so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.
6. (Britain, obsolete) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

7. (basketball) The rim part of a basketball net.
8. (US, in the plural, metonymically) The game of basketball.
9. A hoop earring.
10. (Australia, metonymically, informal, dated) A jockey; from a common pattern on the blouse.
11. (sports, usually in the plural) A horizontal stripe on the jersey
    • 2003 May 21, Barry Glendenning "Minute-by-minute: Celtic 2 - 3 FC Porto (AET)" The Guardian (London):

      Porto are playing from right to left in blue and white stripes, blue shorts and blue socks. Celtic are in their usual green and white hoops, with white shorts and white socks.

    • 2009 June 20, Ian O'Riordan "Tipperary look in better shape" The Irish Times:

      Tipperary v Clare: IF ANYTHING can relight the fire of the old Clare hurling passion it’s the sight of the blue jersey with the gold hoop.

12. (figuratively, usually in the plural) A requirement that must be met in order to proceed.

Derived terms

• hula hoop
• jump through hoops

Translations

Verb

hoop (third-person singular simple present hoops, present participle hooping, simple past and past participle hooped)

1. (transitive) To bind or fasten using a hoop.

2. (transitive) To clasp; to encircle; to surround.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

hoop (plural hoops)

1. A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
2. The hoopoe.

Verb

hoop (third-person singular simple present hoops, present participle hooping, simple past and past participle hooped)

1. (dated) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
2. (dated) To whoop, as in whooping cough.

Derived terms

• hooping cough
• hooper

Further reading

• hoop on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• Pooh, ooph, phoo, pooh

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????p/

Etymology 1

From Dutch hoop, from Middle Dutch hôop, from Old Dutch *h?p, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz.

Noun

hoop (plural hope, diminutive hopie)

1. heap

Derived terms

• ophoop

Etymology 2

From Dutch hoop, from Middle Dutch hope, from Old Dutch *hopa.

Noun

hoop (uncountable)

1. hope

Etymology 3

From Dutch hopen, from Middle Dutch h?pen, from Old Dutch hopon, from Proto-West Germanic *hop?n.

Verb

hoop (present hoop, present participle hopende, past participle gehoop)

1. to hope

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?p/
• Hyphenation: hoop
• Rhymes: -o?p

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch hope, from Old Dutch *hopa, from the verb hopon (modern Dutch hopen). Cognate with English hope.

Noun

hoop f (uncountable)

1. A hope, aspiration, wish

Antonyms

• (hope): wanhoop

Derived terms

• hopeloos
• hoopgevend
• hoopvol

Descendants

• Afrikaans: hoop

Verb

hoop

1. first-person singular present indicative of hopen
2. imperative of hopen

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch hôop, from Old Dutch *h?p, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz.

Noun

hoop m (plural hopen, diminutive hoopje n)

1. A pile, heap, stack

   Synonyms: berg, stapel

2. (figuratively) A lot, heaps
3. A pile of manure, faeces
4. A mass.

   Synonym: massa

5. A multitude, a throng.

   Synonyms: drom, massa, menigte, schare

6. (obsolete) A unit of soldiers, a contingent.

Synonyms

• berg
• massa
• stapel

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Papiamentu: hopi

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *h?p, from Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz.

Noun

hôop m

1. heap, pile
2. group of people or animals, troop, herd
3. meeting

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• hôpen

Descendants

• Dutch: hoop
• Limburgish: houp

Further reading

• “hoop”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “hoop (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

West Frisian

Etymology

See hoopje (“to hope”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ho?p/

Noun

hoop n (no plural)

1. hope

Alternative forms

• hope

Further reading

• “hoop”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011