Stoop vs Strop - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between stoop and strop

is that stoop is the staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence or stoop can be a stooping (ie bent, see the "verb" section above) position of the body or stoop can be (dialect) a post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine or stoop can be a vessel of liquor; a flagon while strop is 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 .

As verbs the difference between stoop and strop

is that stoop is to bend the upper part of the body forward and downward while strop is (obsolete) to strap or strop can be (computing) to mark a sequence of letters syntactically as having a special property, such as being a keyword, eg by enclosing in apostrophes as in 'foo' or writing in uppercase as in foo.

stoop

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . Cognate with English "step".

Noun

(en noun)

The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.

* 1856 James Fenimore Cooper, Satanstoe or The Littlepage Manuscripts: A Tale of the Colony (London, 1856) page 110

Nearly all the houses were built with their gables to the streets and each had heavy wooden Dutch stoops , with seats, at its door.

* 1905 Carpentry and Building , vol. 27 (January 1905), NY: David Williams Company, page 2

...the entrance being at the side of the house and reached by a low front stoop with four or five risers...

The threshold of a doorway, a doorstep.

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Synonyms

* (small porch) porch, verandah * (doorstep) step, doorstep

Etymology 2

From (etyl) . Compare (steep).

Verb

(en verb)

To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward.

He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.

* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,

Their walk had continued not more than ten minutes when they crossed a creek by a wooden bridge and came to a row of mean houses standing flush with the street. At the door of one, an old black woman had stooped to lift a large basket, piled high with laundered clothes.

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To lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals.

Can you believe that a salesman would stoop so low as to hide his customers' car keys until they agreed to the purchase?

Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.

* 1882 [1875], Thomas Bewick, James Reiveley, William Harvey, The Parlour Menagerie , 4th ed., p. 63:

Presently the bird stooped and seized a salmon, and a violent struggle ensued.

To cause to incline downward; to slant.

to stoop a cask of liquor

To cause to submit; to prostrate.

* Chapman

Many of those whose states so tempt thine ears / Are stooped by death; and many left alive.

To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.

* Dryden

Mighty in her ships stood Carthage long, / Yet stooped to Rome, less wealthy, but more strong.

* Addison

These are arts, my prince, / In which your Zama does not stoop to Rome.

To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.

* Goldsmith

She stoops to conquer.

* Francis Bacon

Where men of great wealth stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly.

To degrade.

(Shakespeare)

Synonyms

(bend oneself forwards and downwards) * bend down

Derived terms

* stoop and roop

Noun

(en noun)

A stooping (ie. bent, see the "Verb" section above) position of the body

The old man walked with a stoop .

* 2011 , Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/15195384.stm]

Theo Walcott's final pass has often drawn criticism but there could be no complaint in the 11th minute when his perfect delivery to the far post only required a stoop and a nod of the head from Young to put England ahead.

An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.

* 1819 , :

At length the hawk got the upper hand, and made a rushing stoop at her quarry

Derived terms

* stoopy

Etymology 3

From (etyl), from (etyl)

Alternative forms

* stoup

Noun

(en noun)

(dialect) A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.

Derived terms

* stoup and room

Etymology 4

Old English stope

Alternative forms

* stoup

Noun

(en noun)

A vessel of liquor; a flagon.

* Shakespeare

Fetch me a stoop of liquor.

Anagrams

* * English terms with multiple etymologies

strop

English

Etymology 1

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

Noun

(en noun)

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 .

(British) A bad mood or temper (see stroppy.)

(nautical) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.

Synonyms

* huff

Verb

(stropp)

(obsolete) To strap.

(recorded since 1842; now most used ) To hone (a razor) with a strop.

One should strop the razor before each shave.

Etymology 2

From apostrophe, due to use of apostrophes as single quotation marks to indicate boldface in , where the earlier matched apostrophes were no longer common,''Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68, p. 123, footnote and the term became used more generally for any such method.

Verb

(stropp)

(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.

References

* Etymology on line

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