STRIP
\stɹˈɪp], \stɹˈɪp], \s_t_ɹ_ˈɪ_p]\
Definitions of STRIP
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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an airfield without normal airport facilities
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a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music; "she did a strip right in front of everyone"
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thin piece of wood or metal
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a relatively long narrow piece of something; "he felt a flat strip of muscle"
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draw the last milk (of cows)
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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"
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remove a constituent from a liquid
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remove the thread (of screws)
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remove the surface from; "strip wood"
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strip the cured leaves from; "strip tobacco"
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remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely; "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm"
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deprive of status or authority; "he was divested of his rights and his title"; "They disinvested themselves of their rights"
By Princeton University
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an airfield without normal airport facilities
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a sequence of drawings in a newspaper telling a story
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(of mines and mining) worked from the exposed surface; "opencast mining"; "an opencut iron mine"; "a strip mine"
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a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music; "she did a strip right in front of everyone"
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thin piece of wood or metal
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a relatively long narrow piece of something; "he felt a flat strip of muscle"
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draw the last milk (of cows)
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remove a constituent from a liquid; in chemistry
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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To divest of clothing; to uncover.
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To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.
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To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.
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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.
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To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
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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.
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To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped.
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To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped.
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To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
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To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
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To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
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To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress.
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To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8.
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A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land.
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A trough for washing ore.
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The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
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To undress.
By Oddity Software
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To undress.
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To make naked; deprive of a covering; skin or peel, as an orange; to pull off; as, to strip bark from a tree; to deprive; rob; as, to strip a man of his riches; plunder; as, to strip riches from a man; milk dry, as a cow.
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A long, narrow piece; as, a strip of cloth.
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Stripped.
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Stripping.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To undress.
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To pull off the covering from.
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To rob; plunder.
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To remove something from.
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To tear or cut into strips.
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To come off in strips.
By James Champlin Fernald
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To pull off in strips or stripes: to tear off: to deprive of a covering: to skin: to make bare: to expose: to deprive: to make destitute: to plunder.
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To undress:-pr.p. stripping; pa.t. and pa.p. stripped.
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Same as STRIPE, a long narrow piece of anything.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman