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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.
EXPANDto 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.
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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.
12.
to remove the mold from (an ingot).
13.
to draw the last milk from (a cow), especially by a stroking and compressing movement.
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to draw out (milk) in this manner.
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Photoengraving. to remove (the emulsion from a film base) in order to place it on a glass plate for exposure to the metal plate.
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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.
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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.
COLLAPSESurgery. 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.
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Stripping
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noun
26.
a striptease.
Origin:
1175–1225; (v.) Middle English strippe, Old English *stryppan (compare Middle High German strupfen to strip off); replacing Middle English stripen, strepen, strupen (compare Old English bestrȳpan to rob, plunder)
1175–1225; (v.) Middle English strippe, Old English *stryppan (compare Middle High German strupfen to strip off); replacing Middle English stripen, strepen, strupen (compare Old English 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.
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.
6. supply, furnish.
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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.
4.
Philately. three or more stamps joined either in a horizontal or vertical row.
5.
EXPANDInformal. striplight.
6.
COLLAPSE(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.
verb (used with object)
9.
to cut, tear, or form into strips.
10.
Printing. to combine (a piece of film) with another, especially 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 Middle English, cognate with or < Middle Low German strippe strap; see stripe1
1425–75; late Middle English, cognate with or < Middle Low German strippe strap; see stripe1
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Word Origin & History
strip
"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."
EXPANDis 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.
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Medical Dictionary
strip (strĭp)
v. stripped, strip·ping, strips
To press out or drain off by milking.
To make a subcutaneous excision of a vein in its longitudinal axis, usually of a leg vein.
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