What's the difference between satchel and strap?

Satchel


Definition:

  • (n.) A little sack or bag for carrying papers, books, or small articles of wearing apparel; a hand bag.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A: Julie Dean of the Cambrige Satchel Co: "We're introducing allotments...?"
  • (2) Now a human rights lawyer, Ronan was originally named Satchel after baseball player Satchel Paige, who his presumed father was a fan of.
  • (3) Gideon wondering how many coins there are in a pound then snorting through his nose as he draws a penis murdering a tramp on his satchel.
  • (4) After school last week, a gaggle of African children heading home with their satchels waved at the elderly Italian men lined up on chairs for a gossip outside the barber shop.
  • (5) Today it's a more Timbuk2 satchel and North Face fleece aesthetic (although that's partly a function of the 90F (32C) heat of DC in August and the mid-50s (12C) autumnal weather of October).
  • (6) Co-owner and Founder, The Cambridge Satchel Company.
  • (7) You’ll pay more than you would at Old Delhi’s bazaars, but you’ll still get a bargain: Rajasthani leather satchels go for the equivalent of £12, hallmarked silver bracelets start at £14, cashmere shawls are £8, hand-embroidered silk purses £3 and hand-woven wool carpets start at only £8.
  • (8) With Ronan as his new name – until recently, he was known as Satchel Farrow – and now with possible new paternity, he seems willfully made up.
  • (9) Gove attended one writers’ round-table meeting a week, where all he did was badger the producers to book the former BBC newsreader Jan Leeming , upon whom he was oddly fixated, before leaving with all the office washroom’s toilet rolls secreted in his satchel.
  • (10) I set off cycling up the East River bike path, but soon realise Freitas’s cake won’t survive the journey in my satchel.
  • (11) The walk was fine in spring or summer; Sara quite liked it, swinging her satchel, listening to the unfamiliar sounds of birds and insects.
  • (12) Jeannie Satchell, their trainer, is encouraging people to think through where they want to be in five years' time.
  • (13) Mia Farrow suggested in a Vanity Fair interview that Ronan, 25, may not have been the son of her then husband Woody Allen ; Ronan, formerly known as Satchel, is also estranged from Allen.
  • (14) "I arrived in adulthood with a satchel of goods and one of the things in my satchel was [the feeling] that I'm not quite enough.
  • (15) They have replaced briefcases, overtaken the messenger bag in the affection of cyclists (better for a laptop), subsumed the satchel fad.
  • (16) Satchell is brimming with enthusiasm about where self-employment can take them.
  • (17) But no code of cross-party working will deal with the deeper problem revealed by Messrs Gove and Laws slinging their satchels at each other.
  • (18) Both were given the award for entrepreneurship, as were Julie Deane, who founded the Cambridge Satchel Company, and Richard Moross, founder of online printer Moo.com.

Strap


Definition:

  • (n.) A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like; specifically, a strip of thick leather used in flogging.
  • (n.) Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use; as, a boot strap, shawl strap, stirrup strap.
  • (n.) A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for sharpening a razor; a strop.
  • (n.) A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.
  • (n.) A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
  • (n.) A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.
  • (n.) The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
  • (n.) The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
  • (n.) A shoulder strap. See under Shoulder.
  • (v. t.) To beat or chastise with a strap.
  • (v. t.) To fasten or bind with a strap.
  • (v. t.) To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop; as, to strap a razor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A definite correlation was established between the disease and the character of work and specificity of the working postures: a long stay in a bent position aggravated by the pressure of the apron strap weighing 8-10 kg on the lumbar part of the spine.
  • (2) The surest way for either side to capture the mood of a cash-strapped country would be to give ground on those of their demands which have least merit.
  • (3) Tragedy was averted because there was a little delay as the prayers did not commence in earnest and the bomb strapped to the body of the girl went off and killed her,” he added.
  • (4) The cell shape varied greatly and included dendritic, stellated and strap-shaped forms as well as multinucleated giant cells, similar to those of juvenile melanomatas.
  • (5) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
  • (6) To be effective, strapping must adhere to the entire abdominal wall rather than to the edges of the incision; it must also be permeable to body fluids and well tolerated.
  • (7) The last time I visited they were rollerblading and after plenty of assistance managing the straps and buckles on the hefty skates, I took to the floor.
  • (8) A single anatomic unit is rebuilt, transferring a strong new muscle strap with ideal supporting vectors and leaving scars in natural creases.
  • (9) Rare is the interview that concludes with the subject pinging one’s bra strap.
  • (10) The City is most focused on the investigation begun in April 2009 into the bank before it was rescued by the taxpayer following the takeover of ABN Amro, which left it crippled with bad debts and strapped for cash after paying too much for the bank just as the credit crunch began.
  • (11) The cash-strapped HMV retail chain clinched a deal on Friday to sell its Waterstone's bookshops to the Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut for £53m.
  • (12) They believed the film strips strapped around his forearm, which they called a sleeve, would stimulate his muscles to make those movements a physical reality.
  • (13) It’s easy money for cash-strapped African treasuries.
  • (14) These eventrations are enormous in Africa because the post-partum women do not make active movements to develop again the abdominal strap.
  • (15) Two hundred consecutive patients with arthrographically verified rupture of one or both of the lateral ankle ligaments were allocated to treatment with either an operation and a walking cast, walking cast alone, or strapping with an inelastic tape - all for 5 weeks.
  • (16) The dermal-subdermal plexus is continuous across the midline and this contralateral pathway is supplied chiefly from branches of the superior thyroid artery, facial artery, and myocutaneous perforators of the strap muscles.
  • (17) He now faces an even harder task of selling his economic policies to a doubting and cash-strapped nation when his taxman in chief, the man responsible for fiscal "justice", was hiding a stack of cash from the tax authorities and brazenly lying about it.
  • (18) The extra cost of the deployment is estimated at $35bn, at a time when the US is strapped for cash because of the recession.
  • (19) The backpack was held snugly in place by shoulder and body straps.
  • (20) Ever since I first strapped a radio to my bag, people have been warning me that the cycle courier is an endangered species.