different between strap vs tether

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

Alternative forms

• tedder (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English tether, teder, from Old English *t?oder and/or Old Norse tjóðr ( > Danish tøjr); both from Proto-Germanic *teudr? (“rope; cord; shaft”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *dewtro-, from Proto-Indo-European *dew- (“to tie”), or from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull”). Cognate with North German Tüder (“tether for binding the cattle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?ð?(r)/
• Rhymes: -?ð?(r)

Noun

tether (plural tethers)

1. a rope, cable etc. that holds something in place whilst allowing some movement
2. (nautical, sailing) a strong rope or line that connects a sailor's safety harness to the boat's jackstay
3. (by extension) the limit of one's abilities, resources etc.
4. (dialect) The cardinal number three in an old counting system used in Teesdale and Swaledale. (Variant of tethera)

Synonyms

• hobble (strap)

Derived terms

• at the end of one’s tether
• tetherless
• tetherless computing

Translations

Verb

tether (third-person singular simple present tethers, present participle tethering, simple past and past participle tethered)

1. to restrict something with a tether.
2. (Internet) to connect a cellular smartphone to another personal computer in order to give it access to a hotspot.
3. to connect something to something else. (clarification of this definition is needed)

Translations

Anagrams

• Threet