different between strap vs stram

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

Etymology

Compare German stramm.

Verb

stram (third-person singular simple present strams, present participle stramming, simple past and past participle strammed)

1. (Britain, dialect, West Country, obsolete) To dash down; to beat.
2. To spring or recoil with violence.

References

• Wright, Joseph (1904) The English Dialect Dictionary?^[1], volume 5, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 803

Anagrams

• MSTAR, S.M.A.R.T., SMART, Smart, marts, smart, tarms, trams

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German stram.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stram/, [sd???m?]

Adjective

stram

1. tight, taut
2. strict, stringent
3. stiff, severe, forbidding, acid, sour
4. pungent, acrid

Inflection

Verb

stram

1. imperative of stramme

Dutch

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /str?m/
• Hyphenation: stram
• Rhymes: -?m

Adjective

stram (comparative strammer, superlative stramst)

1. stiff, rigid, inflexible

Inflection

Derived terms

• stramheid

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

stram

1. imperative of stramme