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1  [strip] ,verb, stripped or stript, strip⋅ping, noun
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–verb (used with object)
1. to deprive of covering: to strip a fruit of its rind.
2. to deprive of clothing; make bare or naked.
3. to take away or remove: to strip sheets from the bed.
4. to deprive or divest: to strip a tree of its bark; to strip him of all privileges.
5. to clear out or empty: to strip a house of its contents.
6. to deprive of equipment; dismantle: to strip a ship of rigging.
7. to dispossess, rob, or plunder: to strip a man of his possessions.
8. to remove varnish, paint, wax, or the like from: The wood should be stripped and then refinished.
9. to separate the leaves from the stalks of (tobacco).
10. to remove the midrib, as from tobacco leaves.
11. Machinery. to break off the thread of (a screw, bolt, etc.) or the teeth of (a gear), as by applying too much force.
12. to remove the mold from (an ingot).
13. to draw the last milk from (a cow), esp. by a stroking and compressing movement.
14. to draw out (milk) in this manner.
15. Photoengraving. to remove (the emulsion from a film base) in order to place it on a glass plate for exposure to the metal plate.
16. Textiles.
a. to clean (a carding roller) by removing waste fibers.
b. to transfer (fibers) from one carding roller to another.
c. to remove (color) from a cloth or yarn in order to redye it another color.
d. to remove color from (a cloth or yarn).
17. Bridge. to lead successively winning cards from (a hand) in order to dispose of as many cards as necessary preparatory to surrendering the lead to an opponent so that any card the opponent plays will be to his or her disadvantage.
18. Mining. to strip-mine.
19. Chemistry. to remove the most volatile components from, as by distillation or evaporation.
20. Finance. to split (a bond) for selling separately as a principal certificate and as interest coupons.
21. Surgery. to remove (a vein) by pulling it inside out through a small incision, using a long, hooked instrument.
–verb (used without object)
22. to strip something.
23. to remove one's clothes.
24. to perform a striptease.
25. to become stripped: Bananas strip easily.
–noun
26. a striptease.
Origin:
1175–1225; (v.) ME strippe, OE *stryppan (cf. MHG strupfen to strip off); r. ME stripen, strepen, strupen (cf. OE bestrȳpan to rob, plunder)

Synonyms:
1. uncover, peel, decorticate. 2. denude. 7. despoil. Strip, deprive, dispossess, divest imply more or less forcibly taking something away from someone. To strip is to take something completely (often violently) from a person or thing so as to leave in a destitute or powerless state: to strip a man of all his property; to strip the bark from a tree. To deprive is to take away forcibly or coercively what one has, or to withhold what one might have: to deprive workers of their livelihood. To dispossess is to deprive of the holding or use of something: to dispossess the renters of a house. Divest usually means depriving of rights, privileges, powers, or the like: to divest a king of authority.

Antonyms:
6. supply, furnish.
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strip

2  [strip] noun, verb, stripped, strip⋅ping.
–noun
1. a narrow piece, comparatively long and usually of uniform width: a strip of cloth, metal, land, etc.
2. a continuous series of drawings or pictures illustrating incidents, conversation, etc., as a comic strip.
3. Aeronautics.
a. an airstrip; runway.
b. landing strip.
4. Philately. three or more stamps joined either in a horizontal or vertical row.
5. Informal. striplight.
6. (sometimes initial capital letter) a road, street, or avenue, usually in a city or a main thoroughfare between outlying suburbs, densely lined on both sides by a large variety of retail stores, gas stations, restaurants, bars, etc.: Sunset Strip in Los Angeles.
7. strip steak.
8. drag strip.
–verb (used with object)
9. to cut, tear, or form into strips.
10. Printing. to combine (a piece of film) with another, esp. for making a combination plate of lines and halftones.
11. to broadcast (a television series) in multiple related segments, as daily from Monday through Friday.
Origin:
1425–75; late ME, c. or < MLG strippe strap; see stripe 1

strip-mine

  [strip-mahyn]
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object), -mined, -min⋅ing.
to excavate by open-cut methods.
Also, strip.

Origin:
1925–30

Related forms:
strip mine, noun
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strip 1   (strĭp)   
v.   stripped, strip·ping, strips

v.   tr.

    1. To remove clothing or covering from.

    2. To deprive of (clothing or covering).

    3. To remove all excess detail from; reduce to essentials.

    4. To remove equipment, furnishings, or supplementary parts or attachments from.

  2. To deprive of honors, rank, office, privileges, or possessions; divest.

    1. To remove all excess detail from; reduce to essentials.

    2. To remove equipment, furnishings, or supplementary parts or attachments from.

  4. To clear of a natural covering or growth; make bare: strip a field.

  5. To remove an exterior coating, as of paint or varnish, from: stripped and refinished the old chest of drawers.

  6. To remove the leaves from the stalks of. Used especially of tobacco.

  7. To dismantle (a firearm, for example) piece by piece.

  8. To damage or break the threads of (a screw, for example) or the teeth of (a gear).

  9. To press the last drops of milk from (a cow or goat, for example) at the end of milking.

  10. To rob of wealth or property; plunder or despoil.

  11. To mount (a photographic positive or negative) on paper to be used in making a printing plate.

v.   intr.

    1. To undress completely.

    2. To perform a striptease.

  2. To fall away or be removed; peel.

n.  A striptease.

[Middle English stripen, from Old English -strȳpan, to plunder (in bestrȳpan).]
strip'pa·ble adj.
strip 2   (strĭp)   
n.  

    1. A long narrow piece, usually of uniform width: a strip of paper; strips of beef.

    2. A long narrow region of land or body of water.

  2. A comic strip.

  3. An airstrip.

  4. An area, as along a busy street or highway, that is lined with a great number and variety of commercial establishments.

tr.v.   stripped, strip·ping, strips
To cut or tear into strips.

[Middle English, perhaps from Middle Low German strippe, strap, thong.]
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Word Origin & History

strip  (v.)
"make bare," O.E. -striepan, -strypan "plunder, despoil," as in W.Saxon bestrypan "to plunder," from P.Gmc. *straupijanan (cf. M.Du. stropen "to strip off, to ramble about plundering," O.H.G. stroufen "to strip off, plunder," Ger. streifen "strip off, touch upon, to ramble, roam, rove"). Meaning "to unclothe" is recorded from c.1225. Of screw threads, from 1839; of gear wheels, from 1873. Strip poker is attested from 1929; strip search is from 1947.

strip  (n.)
"long, narrow, flat piece," 1459, "narrow piece of cloth," probably from M.L.G. strippe "strap, thong," related to stripe (see stripe (1)). Sense extension to wood, land, etc. first recorded 1638. Sense in comic strip is from 1920. Meaning "street noted for clubs, bars, etc." is attested from 1939, originally in ref. to Los Angeles' Sunset Strip. Strip mine is attested from 1934, so called because the surface material is removed in successive parallel strips.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Financial Dictionary

Strip

1. For bonds, the process of removing coupons from a bond and then selling the separate parts as a zero coupon bond and interest paying coupons. Also known as a stripped bond or zero coupon bond.

2. In options, a strategy created by being long in one call and two put options, all with the exact same strike price.

Investopedia Commentary

In the context of bonds, stripping is typically done by a brokerage or other financial institution.

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See also: Call, Coupon, Put, Straddle, Strangle, Strap, Strike Price, Zero Coupon Bond

Also spelled: strips, stripping

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strip

A combination of two put options and a call option. The buyer of a strip profits from large variations in the price of the underlying asset, especially if it is moving downward.

Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms by David L. Scott.
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: strip
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: stripped; stripping
: to divide (a debt security) into separately traded securities entitling the owner usually to either principal or interest alone from the obligation

Main Entry: strip
Function: noun
: a security traded separately from another after stripping; specifically : a derivative mortgage-backed security created by the segregation of cash flow from the underlying mortgages or other mortgage-backed securities and entitling the investor to a specified percentage (as 100 percent) of the interest or principal paid

Main Entry: STRIP
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural STRIPs
Etymology: separate trading of registered interest and principal of securities
: a Treasury security that entitles the investor usually to payment of interest or principal exclusively and that is registered in a Federal Reserve bank under a federal program that provides for such separate trading of the components of U.S. Treasury obligations —compare zero-coupon bond at BOND 2
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: strip
Pronunciation: 'strip
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: stripped /'stript/; strip·ping
: toremove (a vein) by means of a stripper <stripping a varicose saphenous vein>
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Medical Dictionary

strip (strĭp)
v. stripped, strip·ping, strips

  1. To press out or drain off by milking.

  2. To make a subcutaneous excision of a vein in its longitudinal axis, usually of a leg vein.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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