Strap
A strap, sometimes also called strop, is an elongated flap or ribbon, usually of fabric or leather.
Thin straps are used as part of clothing or baggage, or bedding such as a sleeping bag. See for example spaghetti strap, shoulder strap. A strap differs from a belt mainly in that a strap is usually integral to the item of clothing; either can be used in combination with buckles.
Straps are also used as fasteners to attach and bind items, to objects, animals (for example a saddle on a horse) and people (for example a watch on a wrist), or even to tie down people and animals, as on an apparatus for corporal punishment. Occasionally a strap is specified after what it binds or holds, e.g. chin strap. Webbing is a particular type of strap that is a strong fabric woven as a flat strip or tube that is also often used in place of rope. Modern webbing is typically made from exceptionally high-strength material, and is used in automobile seat belts, furniture manufacturing, transportation, towing, military apparel, cargo fasteners, and many other fields.
Strip (noun)
Long, thin piece of land, or of any material.
“You use strips of paper in papier mache.”
“He welded together some pieces of strip.”
Strip (noun)
A comic strip.
Strip (noun)
A landing strip.
Strip (noun)
A strip steak.
Strip (noun)
A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
Strip (noun)
The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
Strip (noun)
(UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
Strip (noun)
Striptease.
Strip (noun)
A trough for washing ore.
Strip (noun)
The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
Strip (verb)
To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
“Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.”
Strip (verb)
To take off clothing.
Strip (verb)
To perform a striptease.
Strip (verb)
To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
Strip (verb)
To remove cargo from (a container).
Strip (verb)
To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear.
“The thread is stripped.”
“The screw is stripped.”
Strip (verb)
To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
Strip (verb)
To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
Strip (verb)
To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze.)
Strip (verb)
To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
Strip (verb)
To stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
Strip (verb)
To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
Strip (verb)
To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
Strip (verb)
To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
Strip (verb)
To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
Strip (verb)
To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
Strip (verb)
To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into “hands”.
Strip (verb)
To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
Strip (adjective)
Involving the removal of clothes.
Strap (noun)
A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
Strap (noun)
A strip of thick leather used in flogging.
Strap (noun)
Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use.
Strap (noun)
A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge of a razor; a strop.
Strap (noun)
A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.
Strap (noun)
A strap worn on the shoulder.
Strap (noun)
A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
Strap (noun)
The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
Strap (noun)
The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
Strap (noun)
A gun, normally a personal firearm such as a pistol or machine pistol.
Strap (noun)
Credit offered to a customer, especially for alcoholic drink.
Strap (noun)
A strap-on.
Strap (verb)
To beat or chastise with a strap; to whip, to lash.
Strap (verb)
To fasten or bind with a strap.
Strap (verb)
To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop
“to strap a razor”