strip
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I. verb
(stripped; also stript; stripping)
Etymology: Middle English strepen, strippen, from Old English -strīepan; akin to Old High German stroufen to strip
Date: 13th century
transitive verb
1.
a. to remove clothing, covering, or surface matter from
b. to deprive of possessions
c. to divest of honors, privileges, or functions
2.
a. to remove extraneous or superficial matter from <
a prose style stripped to the bones
>
b. to remove furniture, equipment, or accessories from <strip a ship for action
>
3. to make bare or clear (as by cutting or grazing)
4. to finish a milking of by pressing the last available milk from the teats <strip a cow
>
5.
a. to remove cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco)
b. to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves)
6. to tear or damage the thread of (a separable part or fitting)
7. to separate (components) from a mixture or solution
8. to press eggs or milt out of (a fish)
9. to remove (a subcutaneous vein) by means of a surgical instrument <stripping a varicose saphenous vein
>
intransitive verb
1.
a. to take off clothes
b. to perform a striptease
2. peel 1
• strippable adjective
II. noun
Etymology: probably alteration of 3stripe
Date: 1548
1.
a. a long narrow piece of a material
b. a long narrow area of land or water
2. airstrip
3. a commercially developed area especially along a highway
4. comic strip
5. striptease
New Collegiate Dictionary.
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Look at other dictionaries:
strip# — strip vb Strip, divest, denude, bare, dismantle can mean to deprive a person or thing of what clothes, furnishes, or invests him or it. Strip stresses a pulling or tearing off rather than a laying bare, though the latter implication is frequent;… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
Strip — Strip, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stripped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stripping}.] [OE. stripen, strepen, AS. str?pan in bestr?pan to plunder; akin to D. stroopen, MHG. stroufen, G. streifen.] 1. To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Strip — Студийный альбом Адам Ант Дата выпуска ноябрь 1983 Записан … Википедия
strip — strip1 [strip] vt. stripped, stripping [ME strepen < OE stripan, akin to streifen, to strip off < IE * streub < base * ster , to streak, stroke > STRIKE] 1. to remove (the clothing or covering) of or from (a person); make naked;… … English World dictionary
Strip me? — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda strip me? Álbum de Anna Tsuchiya Publicación 2 de agosto, 2006 Grabación 2005, 2006 … Wikipedia Español
strip — ‘narrow piece’ [15] and strip ‘remove covering’ [13] are distinct words. The former was perhaps borrowed from Middle Low German strippe ‘strap’, and may be related to English stripe [17], an acquisition from Middle Dutch strīfe. A stripling [13]… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
strip — ‘narrow piece’ [15] and strip ‘remove covering’ [13] are distinct words. The former was perhaps borrowed from Middle Low German strippe ‘strap’, and may be related to English stripe [17], an acquisition from Middle Dutch strīfe. A stripling [13]… … Word origins
Strip — Strip, n. 1. A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land. [1913 Webster] 2. (Mining) A trough for washing ore. [1913 Webster] 3. (Gunnery) The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Strip Me? — Álbum de Anna Tsuchiya Publicación 2 de agosto, 2006 Grabación 2005, 2006 Género(s) J Rock, Punk … Wikipedia Español
Strip Me? — Album par Anna Tsuchiya Sortie 2 août 2006 24 octobre 2006 … Wikipédia en Français
Strip — Strip, v. i. 1. To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress. [1913 Webster] 2. (Mach.) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See {Strip}, v. t., 8. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
