Stripped vs Stropped - What's the difference?

stripped | stropped |

As verbs the difference between stripped and stropped

is that stripped is (strip) while stropped is (strop).

As an adjective stripped

is made of.

stripped

English

Adjective

(head)

Made of .

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Verb

(head)

(strip)

stropped

English

Verb

(head)

(strop)

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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