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[stript]
verb
a simple past tense and past participle of strip1.
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strip

1[strip] ,verb, stripped or stript, strip·ping, noun
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.
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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), especially 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.
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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.

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)


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.


6. supply, furnish.

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.
4.
Philately. three or more stamps joined either in a horizontal or vertical row.
5.
Informal. striplight.
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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.
COLLAPSE
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
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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."
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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.
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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.

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"Hereabouts our Indian told us at length the story of their contention with the priest respecting schools. He thought a great deal of education and had recommended it to his tribe. His argument in its favor was, that if you had been to college and learnt to calculate, you could "keep 'um property,—no other way." He said that his boy was the best scholar in the school at Oldtown, to which he went with whites. He himself is a Protestant, and goes to church regularly at Oldtown. According to his account, a good many of his tribe are Protestants, and many of the Catholics also are in favor of schools. Some years ago they had a schoolmaster, a Protestant, whom they liked very well. The priest came and said that they must send him away, and finally he had such influence, telling them that they would go to the bad place at last if they retained him, that they sent him away. The school party, though numerous, were about giving up. Bishop Fenwick came from Boston and used his influence against them. But our Indian told his side that they must not give up, must hold on, they were the strongest. If they gave up, then they would have no party. But they answered that it was "no use, priest too strong, we'd better give up." At length he persuaded them to make a stand.
The priest was going for a sign to cut down the liberty-pole. So Polis and his party had a secret meeting about it; he got ready fifteen or twenty stout young men, "stript 'um naked, and painted 'um like old times," and told them that when the priest and his party went to cut down the liberty-pole, they were to rush up, take hold of it, and prevent them, and he assured them that there would be no war, only noise,—"no war where priest is." He kept his men concealed in a house near by, and when the priest's party were about to cut down the liberty-pole, the fall of which would have been a death-blow to the school party, he gave a signal, and his young men rushed out and seized the pole. There was a great uproar, and they were about coming to blows, but the priest interfered, saying, "No war, no war," and so the pole stands, and the school goes on still.
We thought that it showed a good deal of tact in him, to seize the occasion and take his stand on it; proving how well he understood those with whom he had to deal."
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