different between strop vs belt

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

Same as strap (which see); recorded in English since 1702.

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. Other methods were used, especially in ALGOL 68, where the earlier matched apostrophes were no longer common, 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.

Etymology 3

Noun

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!'

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “strop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• -prost, -prost-, Ports, Prost, SPORT, ports, sport, torps, trops.

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• stropu

Etymology

Probably from Latin stroppus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (stróphos, “rope”), from ?????? (stréph?, “to twist”).

Noun

strop n (plural stroapi or stroape)

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

Synonyms

• shcop, ciumagã

References

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *strop?. Compare obsolete Bulgarian ????? (strop, “floor, storey”), Serbo-Croatian str?p (which may be borrowed from Czech).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?strop]

Noun

strop m

1. ceiling

Declension

Antonyms

• podlaha f

Derived terms

• stropní

Further reading

• strop in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• strop in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Noun

strop c (singular definite stroppen, plural indefinite stropper)

1. strap
2. loop
3. hanger

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch strop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /str?p/
• Hyphenation: strop
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

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

Derived terms

• stropdas

Anagrams

• sport, sprot

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strup/

Noun

strop m

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   Synonym: trop

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *strop?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /str?p/

Noun

strop m inan

1. (construction) ceiling
2. (geology) roof (the upper part of a cavity)

Declension

See also

• (ceiling): sufit

Further reading

• strop in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• strop in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From stropi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strop/

Noun

strop m (plural stropi)

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

Declension

Derived terms

• stropule?
• stropu?or

Related terms

• stropi

Further reading

• strop in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *strop?.

Noun

str?p m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. A ceiling

Declension

Antonyms

• pod

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *strop?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /str??p/

Noun

str?p m inan

1. ceiling (highest portion of room)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Antonyms

• tla
• pod

English

Etymology

From Middle English belt, from Old English belt (“belt, girdle”), from Proto-Germanic *baltijaz (“girdle, belt”), from Latin balteus (“belt, sword-belt”), of Etruscan origin. Cognate with Scots belt (“belt”), Dutch belt, German Balz (“belt”), Danish bælte (“belt”), Swedish bälte (“belt, cincture, girdle, zone”) and Icelandic belti (“belt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?lt/
• Rhymes: -?lt

Noun

belt (plural belts)

1. A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing.

2. A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.

3. A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.

4. Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe.

5. A trophy in the shape of a belt, generally awarded for martial arts.

6. (astronomy) A collection of rocky-constituted bodies (such as asteroids) which orbit a star.
7. (astronomy) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
8. A powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object.

9. A quick drink of liquor.

10. (usually capitalized) A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn Belt, Bible Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt).
11. (baseball) The part of the strike zone at the height of the batter's waist.

12. (weaponry) A device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon
13. (music) Vocal tone produced by singing with chest voice above the break (or passaggio), in a range typically sung in head voice.

Synonyms

• (band worn around waist): girdle, waistband, sash, strap
• (band used as safety restraint): restraint, safety belt, seat belt
• (powerful blow): blow, punch, sock, wallop
• (quick drink of liquor): dram, nip

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Afrikaans: belt
• ? Assamese: ????? (belto)
• ? Bengali: ????? (bel?)
• ? Dutch: belt
• ? Hindi: ????? (bel?)
• ? Irish: beilt
• ? Japanese: ??? (beruto)
• ? Oriya: ?????? (bel?)
• ? Urdu: ????? (bel?)
• ? Welsh: belt

Translations

Verb

belt (third-person singular simple present belts, present participle belting, simple past and past participle belted)

1. (transitive) To encircle.

2. (transitive) To fasten a belt on.

3. (transitive) To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood.
4. (transitive) To hit with a belt.

5. (transitive, normally belt out) To scream or sing in a loud manner.

6. (transitive) To drink quickly, often in gulps.

7. (transitive, slang) To hit someone or something.
8. (transitive, baseball) To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.

9. (intransitive) To move very fast.

Synonyms

• (to encircle): circle, girdle, surround
• (to fasten a belt): buckle, fasten, strap
• (to hit with a belt): strap, whip
• (to drink quickly): gulp, pound, slurp
• (to hit someone or something): bash, clobber, smack, wallop
• (to move quickly): book, speed, whiz, zoom

Derived terms

• belted l
• belt out
• belt up
• beltloop

Translations

Anagrams

• blet

Afrikaans

Etymology

Borrowed from English belt.

Noun

belt (plural belde)

1. A belt (garment).

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?lt/
• Hyphenation: belt
• Rhymes: -?lt

Etymology 1

A variant of bult.

Noun

belt m or f (plural belten, diminutive beltje n)

1. (archaic) A heap, hill
2. A dumpsite, notably for waste products.

Derived terms

• asbelt
• afvalbelt
• beltmolen
• gifbelt
• vuilnisbelt
• zandbelt

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English belt.

Noun

belt m (plural belten, diminutive beltje n)

1. (Suriname) (clothing) A belt.

Synonyms

• riem, broeksriem, gordel

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

belt

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of bellen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of bellen

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (balad).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?lt/

Noun

belt f (plural bliet)

1. A city, town.

Related terms

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *baltijaz. Cognate with Old High German balz, Old Norse belti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /belt/, [be?t]

Noun

belt m (nominative plural beltas)

1. A belt.

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: belt
  • English: belt (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: belt