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Definition of 'STRIP'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) strip
to deprive of covering:
to strip a fruit of its rind.

2.  strip
to deprive of clothing.

3.  strip
to remove:
to strip sheets from a bed.

4.  strip
to deprive; divest:
stripped of one's rights.

5.  strip
to clear out; empty:
to strip a house of its contents.

6.  strip
to deprive of equipment or possessions.

7.  strip
to remove varnish, paint, wax, or the like from.

8.  strip
to separate the leaves from the stalks of (tobacco).

9.  strip
to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

10.  strip
to shear or damage the thread or the teeth of:
to strip gears.

11.  strip
to draw the last milk from (a cow), esp. by a stroking and compressing movement.

12.  strip
to remove (color) from a cloth or yarn.

13.  strip
Chem. to remove the most volatile components from, as by distillation or evaporation.

14. (v.i.) strip
to remove one's clothes.

15.  strip
to perform a striptease.

16.  strip
to become stripped.

17. (n.) strip
a long narrow piece of material.

18.  strip
a narrow expanse of water or land.

19.  strip
an airstrip; runway.

20.  strip
an area of commercial development along a thoroughfare.

21. (v.t.) strip
to cut, tear, or form into strips.

Etymology: (1425–75; late ME, c. or < MLG strippe strap; see stripe¹)

Definition of 'STRIP'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) strip
a relatively long narrow piece of something
"he felt a flat strip of muscle"

2. (noun) strip, slip
artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material

3. (noun) airstrip, flight strip, landing strip, strip
an airfield without normal airport facilities

4. (noun) comic strip, cartoon strip, strip, funnies
a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book

5. (noun) strip
thin piece of wood or metal

6. (verb) strip, striptease, strip show
a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music
"she did a strip right in front of everyone"

7. (verb) deprive, strip, divest
take away possessions from someone
"The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"

8. (verb) undress, discase, uncase, unclothe, strip, strip down, disrobe, peel
get undressed
"please don't undress in front of everybody!"; "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living"

9. (verb) strip
remove the surface from
"strip wood"

10. (verb) leach, strip
remove substances from by a percolating liquid
"leach the soil"

11. (verb) denude, bare, denudate, strip
lay bare
"denude a forest"

12. (verb) plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray
steal goods; take as spoils
"During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"

13. (verb) clean, strip
remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely
"The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm"

14. (verb) strip
strip the cured leaves from
"strip tobacco"

15. (verb) strip
remove the thread (of screws)

16. (verb) strip
remove a constituent from a liquid

17. (verb) strip, dismantle
take off or remove
"strip a wall of its wallpaper"

18. (verb) strip
draw the last milk (of cows)

19. (verb) strip, undress, divest, disinvest
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"

Definition of 'STRIP'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) strip
to take your clothes off
The guards told him to strip.; He stripped his clothes off.

2.  strip
to pull the top layer off of sth
The beaver strips the bark from the tree.; First strip the old paint.

3.  strip
to remove or steal everything from inside sth
Thieves stripped the museum of its WWII artifacts.; We stripped the kitchen and started again.

4.  strip
to take away a right, privilege, or responsibility
citizens stripped of their civil rights; They stripped her of her official title.

5. (noun) strip
a long, narrow, flat piece of sth
strips of colored paper

6.  strip
a long narrow area of land, water, etc.
an empty strip of beach

7.  strip
a street with many stores or businesses on it
the Las Vegas strip

Definition of 'STRIP'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) STRIP
a narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land

2. (noun) STRIP
a trough for washing ore

3. (noun) STRIP
the issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion

4. (verb) STRIP
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

5. (verb) STRIP
to divest of clothing; to uncover

6. (verb) STRIP
to dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc

7. (verb) STRIP
to pare off the surface of, as land, in strips

8. (verb) STRIP
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

9. (verb) STRIP
to pass; to get clear of; to outstrip

10. (verb) STRIP
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

11. (verb) STRIP
to tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped

12. (verb) STRIP
to tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped

13. (verb) STRIP
to remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action

14. (verb) STRIP
to remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged

15. (verb) STRIP
to pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves)

16. (verb) STRIP
to take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress

17. (verb) STRIP
to fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8

Translation of 'STRIP'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to remove the covering from something He stripped the old varnish off the wall; He stripped the branch (of its bark) with his knife.
Afrikaans: strook, afstroop	Arabic: يَقْشِر، يُزيل	Bulgarian: свалям
Brazilian: remover	Czech: sundat, seškrabat	German: abziehen
Danish: fjerne	Greek: αφαιρώ, ξύνω, ξεφλουδίζω	Spanish: quitar, desprender; arran
Estonian: maha kiskuma	Farsi: كندن	Finnish: poistaa
French: enlever	Hebrew: לִפשוֹט	Hindi: उघाड़ना, आवरण हटाना
Croatian: ljuštiti, guliti	Hungarian: lehúz	Indonesian: mengupas
Icelandic: strípa, fjarlægja af	Italian: togliere	Japanese: はぐ
Korean: 껍질을 벗기다	Lithuanian: nuimti, nuplėšti, nulupti	Latvian: noplēst
Malay: menanggalkan	Dutch: ontdoen van	Norwegian: fjerne, rive av, flekke,
Polish: zdjąć, usunąć, (ze)skroba	Persian: كندن	Pashto: اشکول
Portuguese: raspar	Romanian: aîndepărta, a scoate	Russian: сдирать
Slovak: stiahnuť; zoškrabať	Slovenian: olupiti	Serbian: skinuti
Swedish: skrapa, skala (barka) av	Thai: ถอด	Turkish: (kabuğunu) soymak
Taiwanese: 剝去	Ukrainian: здирати; знімати	Urdu: غلاف وغیرہ اتارنا
Vietnamese: tước, lột	Chinese: 剥去
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