What's the difference between stopped and stropped?
Stopped
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Stop
(a.) Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; -- said of certain consonants (p, b, t, d, etc.).
Example Sentences:
(1) Decreased MU stops additions of bone by modeling and increases removal of bone next to marrow by remodeling.
(2) The stopped-flow technique was used to measure the rate constants for the reactions between the oxidized forms of peroxidase with luminol and the following substrates: p-iodophenol, p-bromophenol, p-clorophenol, o-iodophenol, m-iodophenol, luciferin, and 2-iodo-6-hydroxybenzothiazole.
(3) The region containing the injection stop signal (iss) has been cloned and sequenced and found to contain numerous large repeats and inverted repeats which may be part of the iss.
(4) Certainly, Saunders did not land a single blow that threatened to stop his opponent, although he took quite a few himself that threatened his titles in the final few rounds.
(5) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
(6) All of this in the same tones of weary nonchalance you might use to stop the dog nosing around in the bin.
(7) There are no oceans wide enough to stop us from dreaming.
(8) At the ceremony, the Taliban welcomed dialogue with Washington but said their fighters would not stop fighting.
(9) In a separate exclusive interview , Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, told the Guardian that he was determined "to stop the experiment" with austerity policies imposed by Germany.
(10) She stopped working only when the pain made it hard for her to get to work.
(11) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
(12) Crown prince Sultan Bin Abdel Aziz said yesterday that the state had "spared no effort" to avoid such disasters but added that "it cannot stop what God has preordained.
(13) Control measures were introduced rapidly, effectively stopping the epidemic.
(14) Both strong-stop DNAs are made early during in vitro reactions and decline in concentration later, consistent with postulated roles as initiators of long minus- and plus-strand DNA.
(15) Thus it appears that a portion of the adaptation to prolonged and intense endurance training that is responsible for the higher lactate threshold in the trained state persists for a long time (greater than 85 days) after training is stopped.
(16) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
(17) Bacteria can stop or lessen antibodies synthesis process.
(18) Never become so enamored of your own smarts that you stop signing up for life’s hard classes.
(19) The scatter measurement was made using a standard imaging geometry with both beam stops and an additional x-ray detector placed behind the standard imaging detector.
(20) Thirteen of the dogs treated with various drug regimens lived for 90 days, after which time treatment was stopped; 10 of the dogs eventually rejected the grafts, but three had continued graft function for 6 months or longer and may be permanently tolerant.
Stropped
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Strop
Example Sentences:
(1) Solskjaer's need to gamble was such that he withdrew Fábio da Silva, by now in such a strop with himself and everybody else that another sending off probably beckoned.
(2) Or perhaps it's all down to people taking Wagner's strops too seriously .
(3) We threw a strop and we threatened to lose our focus but we gathered ourselves at half-time.
(4) Is his reputation for walking out in a strop justified?
(5) The Tory speech writer condemned Goldsmith for throwing a “strop” by quitting and was unhappy when the Tories announced they would not stand.
(6) After last season's fiasco with Peter Odemiwingie, Steve Clarke wants to sign a totally dependable striker who's not going to throw any strops.
(7) Infamously, he refused to appear in the video for his UK No 2 hit Wearing My Rolex , apparently spending two days on set having a strop in the back of his car.
(8) Harry's strop was both maladroit and inappropriate, to the extent that you might think his bark is worse than his bite.
(9) Just a gobby teenager stropping off to her bedroom.
(10) The aircraft is suspended, in an arrested nose dive, from a complicated cat's cradle of strops and ratchet straps.
(11) Emerge into focus Kevin Garvey, police chief of Mapleton County, ripped and brooding in the way only fictional police chiefs can be, and in a right old strop about a memorial for the Departed, which he predicts will end in a ruck when mysterious religious group, the Guilty Remnant, show up.