| 词汇 | strop |
| 释义 | strop noun[ C ] uk /strɒp/ us /strɑːp/ stropnoun[C] (STRAP)a strip of leather or other material that you can rub an old-fashioned razor, knife, etc. on in order to make the blade sharp : Use a strop to maintain a sharp edge on your knives and cutting tools. a razor strop a length of rope, etc., formed into a ring at the end, that is used, for example, for supporting something heavy when it is being moved, or for tying a boat up so that it does not float away: The crane was in position, the strops were on, and the boat was lifted high and then lowered gently onto the waiting low-loader. The mooring strop allows boats to be moored to buoys. Other materials can be used but strops are most often made of leather. Once you've learned to sharpen with a stone, it's time to maintain your edge with a strop. This extension was designed to avoid the need to connect a recovery strop to a heavy and dangerous chain. Sharp and blunt among angularity blunt hone jag keen point pointed prickly razor-sharp sharp sharpen sharply sharpness spiked spikily spiky spiny super-sharp You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Parts of ships & boats Raising and lowering Fastening and tying stropnoun[C] (MOOD)UKinformal a bad mood, especially one in which a person will not do as they are asked and is unpleasant to other people: 坏心情；（尤指）臭脾气 Don't go in unless you have to - she's in a (real) strop.若非必要就别进去——她正在气头上。 He's impossible to talk to when he's having one of his strops. When she didn't get what she wanted she threw a strop. have a strop on to be in a bad mood: 心情不好；发脾气 Why have you got such a strop on - what's happened?你为什么发这么大的脾气——发生什么事了？ Moods -humoured affect be in one of your moodsidiom black mood eat frame humour snit someone's state/frame of mindidiom spirit suck sucking dieselidiom temper temperament temperamentally temperature tone up and downidiom volatility yourself strop verb uk /strɒp/ us /strɑːp/ stropverb (MAKE SHARP)[ T ] to make a blade, etc. sharp by rubbing it on a strip of leather or other material: The barber's customers miss the familiar sound of a cut-throat blade being stropped on a leather strap. He stropped a knife razor-sharp on the inside of his belt. He stood stropping a razor as a rhythmic accompaniment to his friend's guitar playing. Sharp and blunt among angularity blunt hone jag keen point pointed prickly razor-sharp sharp sharpen sharply sharpness spiked spikily spiky spiny super-sharp stropverb (BEHAVE ANGRILY)[ Iusually+ ADV/PREP ]UKinformal to act or go somewhere in a way that shows you are in a bad mood and angry with other people: She muttered goodbye and stropped off home. All he does is strop around with a grumpy face, complaining about everything. She used to strop about like a horrible moody teenager. What did he do if he didn't get his way? He stropped. Becoming angry and expressing anger (almost) burst a blood vesselidiom ape ballistic bananas bay for bloodidiom blow chip fulminating fume get bent out of shapeidiom get your knickers in a twistidiom give someone evilsidiom roof sharp splenetic splenetically stew temper tempered throw Examples of stropstrop The company's original focus was the production of razor strops, to sharpen razors used in shaving. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The soldiers then scalped most of the dead, and cut long strips of flesh from others for use as razor strops. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Most vehicles will be equipped with an assortment of lifting strops or chains and webbing to secure loads. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Even if this can be done, the use of strops can cause further damage and are often not the right way to start a lift. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Men shaved with straight razors that needed sharpening every day using a leather strop. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Entanglement with the parachute appears plausible in view of the fact that the parachute's strop was shortened from the original design to save mass. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Additionally, a leather razor strop, or strop, is often used to straighten and polish an edge. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The chest sports a medial strop of black-tipped hairs. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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