Strop vs Strep - What's the difference?
strop | strep |
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.
(obsolete) To strap.
(recorded since 1842; now most used ) To hone (a razor) with a strop.
(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
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As nouns the difference between strop and strep
is that 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 while strep is (pathology).As a verb 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. strop
English
Etymology 1
Same as strap (which see); recorded in English since 1702.Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* huffVerb
(stropp)- 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)'foo' or writing in uppercase as in FOO. References
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