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STRIP
strip, striptease, strip show
(noun) a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music; “she did a strip right in front of everyone”
airstrip, flight strip, landing strip, strip
(noun) an airfield without normal airport facilities
strip, slip
(noun) artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
strip
(noun) thin piece of wood or metal
strip
(noun) a relatively long narrow piece of something; “he felt a flat strip of muscle”
undress, discase, uncase, unclothe, strip, strip down, disrobe, peel
(verb) get undressed; “please don’t undress in front of everybody!”; “She strips in front of strangers every night for a living”
strip
(verb) draw the last milk (of cows)
strip, dismantle
(verb) take off or remove; “strip a wall of its wallpaper”
strip
(verb) remove a constituent from a liquid
strip
(verb) remove the thread (of screws)
denude, bare, denudate, strip
(verb) lay bare; “denude a forest”
leach, strip
(verb) remove substances from by a percolating liquid; “leach the soil”
strip
(verb) remove the surface from; “strip wood”
strip
(verb) strip the cured leaves from; “strip tobacco”
clean, strip
(verb) remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely; “The boys cleaned the sandwich platters”; “The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm”
deprive, strip, divest
(verb) take away possessions from someone; “The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets”
plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray
(verb) steal goods; take as spoils; “During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
strip (chiefly countable, plural strips)
(countable) A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
(usually countable, sometimes uncountable) A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
A comic strip.
A landing strip.
A strip steak.
A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
(sport of fencing) The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
(UK, soccer) The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
(mining) A trough for washing ore.
The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
(television) A television series aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
Hyponyms
• (long, thin piece of bacon): rasher
Etymology 2
Verb
strip (third-person singular simple present strips, present participle stripping, simple past and past participle stripped)
(transitive) To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
(usually, intransitive) To take off clothing.
(intransitive) To perform a striptease.
(transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
(transitive) To remove cargo from (a container).
(transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear.
(intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
(transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
(transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
(transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
(transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
(television, transitive) 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.
(transitive, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
(transitive) To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
(transitive, obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
Synonyms
• deprive
• peel
• uncover
Noun
strip (plural strips)
The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
(attributively, of games) Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.
Anagrams
• TRIPS, spirt, sprit, stirp, trips
Proper noun
un (plural )
(informal) Ellipsis of Gaza Strip.
(informal) Ellipsis of Las Vegas Strip. (Vegas Strip)
(informal) Ellipsis of Sunset Strip.
(informal) Ellipsis of Strip District.
Anagrams
• TRIPS, spirt, sprit, stirp, trips
Source: Wiktionary
Strip, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stripped; p. pr. & vb. n. Stripping.] Etym: [OE. stripen, strepen, AS. str in bestr to plunder; akin to D. stroopen, MHG. stroufen, G. streifen.]
1. To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes; to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark. And strippen her out of her rude array. Chaucer. They stripped Joseph out of his coat. Gen. xxxvii. 23. Opinions which . . . no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown. Macaulay.
2. To divest of clothing; to uncover. Before the folk herself strippeth she. Chaucer. Strip your sword stark naked. Shak.
3. (Naut.)
Definition: To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.
4. (Agric.)
Definition: To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.
5. To deprive of all milk; to milk dry; to draw the last milk from; hence, to milk with a peculiar movement of the hand on the teats at the last of a milking; as, to strip a cow.
6. To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip. [Obs.] When first they stripped the Malean promontory. Chapman. Before he reached it he was out of breath, And then the other stripped him. Beau. & Fl.
7. To pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back; to strip away all disguisses. To strip bad habits from a corrupted heart, is stripping off the skin. Gilpin.
8. (Mach.) (a) To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped. (b) To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped.
9. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
10. (Carding)
Definition: To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
11. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
Strip, v. i.
1. To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress.
2. (Mach.)
Definition: To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8.
Strip, n.
1. A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land.
2. (Mining)
Definition: A trough for washing ore.
3. (Gunnery)
Definition: The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion. Farrow.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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