Strap vs Hoop - What's the difference?
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A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
, title=The Dust of Conflict
, chapter=7 A strip of thick leather used in flogging.
* (rfdate) Addison:
Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use.
A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge of a razor; a strop.
A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.
# (carpentry, machinery) A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
# (nautical) A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.
(botany) The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
(botany) The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
A shoulder strap, see under shoulder.
(slang) A gun, normally a personal firearm such as a pistol or machine pistol.
To beat or chastise with a strap; to whip, to lash.
To fasten or bind with a strap.
To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop; as, to strap a razor.
A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop.
(mostly, in plural) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline.
* Alexander Pope
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.
(UK, obsolete) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
(plural) The game of basketball.
A hoop earring.
(Australia, metonym, informal, dated) A jockey; from a common pattern on the blouse''.“
To bind or fasten using a hoop.
To clasp; to encircle; to surround.
(dated) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
(dated) To whoop, as in whooping cough.
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In lang=en terms the difference between strap and hoop
is that strap is a gun, normally a personal firearm such as a pistol or machine pistol while hoop is to whoop, as in whooping cough.In transitive terms the difference between strap and hoop
is that strap is to sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop; as, to strap a razor while hoop is to clasp; to encircle; to surround.strap
English
(wikipedia strap)Alternative forms
* (l), (l)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The patter of feet, and clatter of strap and swivel, seemed to swell into a bewildering din, but they were almost upon the fielato offices, where the carretera entered the town, before a rifle flashed.}}
- A lively cobbler that had scarce passed a day without giving her [his wife] the discipline of the strap .
Derived terms
* boot strap * shawl strap * stirrup strap * strapless * strap beamVerb
Derived terms
* strap on a pair * strap-onAnagrams
*hoop
English
(wikipedia hoop)Etymology 1
From (etyl) hoop, hoope, from (etyl) ). More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- the cheese hoop , or cylinder in which the curd is pressed in making cheese
- stiff with hoops , and armed with ribs of whale
- (Halliwell)
hoop”, entry in 1989 , Joan Hughes, ''Australian Words and Their Origins , page 261.
Derived terms
* hula hoop * jump through hoopsVerb
(en verb)- to hoop a barrel or puncheon
- (Shakespeare)
