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What's The Definition Of Strip?
[n] a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music; "she did a strip right in front of everyone"
[n] an airfield without normal airport facilities [n] artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material [n] thin piece of wood or metal [n] a sequence of drawings in a newspaper telling a story [n] a relatively long narrow piece of something; "he felt a flat strip of muscle" [v] get undressed; "please don't undress in front of everybody!" [v] remove someone's clothes; "The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim" [v] draw the last milk (of cows) [v] take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper" [v] remove a constituent from a liquid; in chemistry [v] remove the thread (of screws) [v] lay bare; "denude a forest" [v] remove substances from by a percolating liquid; "leach the soil" [v] remove the surface from; "strip wood" [v] strip the cured leaves from; "strip tobacco" [v] remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely; "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm" [v] take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets" [v] steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" Synonyms | Synonyms for Strip: airstrip | bare | cartoon strip | clean | comic strip | denudate | denude | deprive | despoil | discase | dismantle | disrobe | divest | flight strip | foray | landing strip | leach | loot | peel | pillage | plunder | ransack | reave | rifle | slip | strip down | strip show | striptease | uncase | unclothe | undress | undress Related Terms | Find terms related to Strip: See Also | airfield | artefact | artifact | band | bark | batten | bereave | burn off | cartoon | clean | clean out | clear | cleat | cramp | cramp iron | decorticate | defoliate | deplumate | deplume | deplume | disarm | displume | displume | dispossess | edge | expropriate | field | fingerboard | flare path | flying field | furring | furring strip | jackstraw | landing field | lead | leading | lumber | margin | milk | mullion | newspaper | nude dancing | orphan | pale | paper | pare | part | peel | picket | piece | pluck | pull | remove | remove | ribbon | row | runway | sketch | skin | slat | smooth | smoothen | spillikin | spline | stay | take | take | take | take away | take away | take off | tape | tear | tickertape | timber | toothpick | typewriter ribbon | unarm | unclothe | unsex | weather strip | weather stripping | withdraw | withdraw Strip In Webster's Dictionary \Strip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stripped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Stripping}.] [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. --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.) To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging,
spars, etc.
4. (Agric.) 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) 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.) 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) A trough for washing ore. 3. (Gunnery) The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion. --Farrow. |
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