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

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