strip
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (6)strips
- a relatively long narrow piece of something“he felt a flat strip of muscle”Type of part, pieceKinds row
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of materialSynonyms: slipType of artifact, artefactKinds tape, band, stay, reef, endband, mullion, lead, cramp, screed, ribbon +2 more
- an airfield without normal airport facilitiesSynonyms: airstripflight striplanding stripType of airfield, landing fieldKinds flare pathParts runway
- a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic bookSynonyms: comic stripcartoon stripfunniesType of cartoon, sketchPart of newspaper, comic bookParts frame
- thin piece of wood or metalType of lumber, timberKinds slat, picket, cleat, fingerboard, jackstraw, spline, batten, furring strip, toothpick
- a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music“she did a strip right in front of everyone”Synonyms: stripteasestrip showType of nude dancing
Verb (13)stripped, stripping, strips, striped, striping
- take away possessions from someone“The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets”Synonyms: deprivedivestMore general takeMore specific unsex, clean, dispossess, clean out, orphan, expropriate, disarm, bereave, unclothe
- get undressed“please don't undress in front of everybody!”“She strips in front of strangers every night for a living”Synonyms: undressdiscaseuncaseunclothestrip downdisrobepeelMore general remove, takeMore specific take offSimilar undress, divest
- remove the surface from“strip wood”More general remove, takeMore specific skin, pluck, decorticate, bark
- remove substances from by a percolating liquid“leach the soil”Synonyms: leachMore general remove, take
- lay bare“denude a forest”Synonyms: denudebaredenudateMore general clearMore specific burn off, defoliate
- steal goods; take as spoils“During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners”Synonyms: plunderdespoillootreaverifleransackpillageforayMore general takeMore specific deplume, displume
- remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely“The boys cleaned the sandwich platters”“The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm”Synonyms: clean
- strip the cured leaves from“strip tobacco”
- remove the thread (of screws)
- remove a constituent from a liquid
- take off or remove“strip a wall of its wallpaper”Synonyms: dismantle
- draw the last milk (of cows)
- remove (someone's or one's own) clothes“The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim”“She divested herself of her outdoor clothes”“He disinvested himself of his garments”Synonyms: undressdivestdisinvest
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Translations
Noun long, thin piece of land or material
Verb to take off clothing
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. stripen, strepen, AS. str…pan in bestr…pan 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.— Geoffrey 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.— Thomas Babington Macaulay
2. To divest of clothing; to uncover.
Before the folk herself strippeth she.— Geoffrey Chaucer
Strip your sword stark naked.— William Shakespeare
3. Nautical To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.
4. Agriculture 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. obsolete
When first they stripped the Malean promontory.— George Chapman
Before he reached it he was out of breath, And then the other stripped him.— Francis, & Fletcher, John. Beaumont
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 disguises.
To strip bad habits from a corrupted heart, is stripping off the skin.— William Gilpin
8. Machinery (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 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).
1. To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress.
2. Machinery To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, transitive verb, 8.
1. A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land.
2. Mining A trough for washing ore.
3. Gunnery The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion. Farrow, Edward S.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54