Strip
[strɪp]
Definition
(noun.) a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music; 'she did a strip right in front of everyone'.
(noun.) artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material.
(noun.) thin piece of wood or metal.
(noun.) a relatively long narrow piece of something; 'he felt a flat strip of muscle'.
(verb.) draw the last milk (of cows).
(verb.) take off or remove; 'strip a wall of its wallpaper'.
(verb.) remove a constituent from a liquid.
(verb.) remove the thread (of screws).
(verb.) remove the surface from; 'strip wood'.
(verb.) strip the cured leaves from; 'strip tobacco'.
(verb.) 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'.
Checked by Brady--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To divest of clothing; to uncover.
(v. t.) To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.
(v. t.) To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped.
(v. t.) To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped.
(v. t.) To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
(v. t.) To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
(v. t.) To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
(v. i.) To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress.
(v. i.) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8.
(n.) A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land.
(n.) A trough for washing ore.
(n.) The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
Editor: Timmy
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Tear off, pull off, strip off.[2]. Uncover, denude, peel, lay bare.[3]. Divest, deprive, bereave, despoil, fleece, shave, make destitute.[4]. Rob, plunder, pillage, spoil, sack, ransack, devastate, desolate, lay waste.[5]. Milk dry.
v. n. Undress, uncover, take off the clothes.
n. Piece (long and narrow, torn off), slip, shred.
Typed by Beryl
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Divest, denude, bare, pull_off, despoil, dismantle, disencumber, flay, fleece,rob
ANT:Invest, endow, clothe, enrich, compensate
Editor: Vanessa
Definition
v.t to pull off in strips or stripes: to tear off: to deprive of a covering: to skin to peel to husk: to make bare: to expose: to remove the overlying earth from a deposit: to deprive: to impoverish or make destitute: to plunder: to press out the last milk at a milking: to press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes for artificial fecundation: to separate the leaves of tobacco from the stems.—v.i. to undress: to lose the thread as a screw: to come off:—pr.p. strip′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. stripped.—n. a long narrow piece of anything (cf. Stripe).—ns. Strip′leaf tobacco which has been stripped of the stalks before packing; Strip′per one who or that which strips.—n.pl. Strip′pings the last milk drawn from a cow at a milking.—Strip off to pull or take off: to cast off.
Typist: Yvette
Examples
- He tore off a strip of the blotting-paper and turned towards us the following hieroglyphic: GRAPHIC Cyril Overton was much excited. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Seize him and strip him, slaves, said the knight, and let the fathers of his race assist him if they can. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I have already told the reader, that every night, when the family were gone to bed, it was my custom to strip, and cover myself with my clothes. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- A pendulum carrying a pencil was in constant contact with a strip of paper drawn beneath the pencil. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The completed rail is then covered with a finishing strip, known as the blind rail, which covers the unsightly bolt heads and adds to the artistic effect of the table. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- These are at the same distance apart that the thickness of the strip is required to be. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He had seen them shot and left to swell beside the road, nobody bothering to do more than strip them of their cartridges and their valuables. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The conductor from the hopper to the machine is made of two strips of steel, down which the pins, held by their heads, slide. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- First of all tack tarred building paper to the studding, running the strips up and down and having them catch on every third studding. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- When the bed is finished, the strips are clamped with steel clamps, the turned-up ends of which firmly grip the sides of the bed, thus preventing warping or spreading. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This is finished similar to the maple strips. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The height of the leveling strips, plus the height of the bed, lift its surface about six inches from the foundation floor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- All the letters had been pieced together with strips of thin paper. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Other mechanisms cut and divided the block into strips, which were then dipped at one end, dried and tied in bundles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The thought of our own times has not out-stripped language; a want of Plato's 'art of measuring' is the rule cause of the disproportion between them. Plato. The Republic.
- As it was pushed forward, the stalks next the heads came between these sharp teeth and were cut or stripped off into a box attached to and behind the cutter bar and carried by two wheels. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I am stripped of romance as bare as the white tenters in that field are of cloth. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He consented, and I immediately stripped myself stark naked, and went down softly into the stream. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Those are the main facts of the case, stripped of all surmise, and stated as baldly as possible. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It's a very fine skin, as you may see, but I didn't have it stripped off! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And when they are housed, they will work, in summer, commonly, stripped and barefoot, but in winter substantially clothed and shod. Plato. The Republic.
- Stripping his harness from him I securely bound his hands behind his back, and after similarly fastening his feet tied him to a heavy gun carriage. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Pliny describes this machine which was used early in the first century and which might be termed a stripping header. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Heaven only knows how far a man might trace them by stripping. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He played on for twenty-four hours, and won ten thousand pounds, stripping the bank he had played against. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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