strip
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
ball-games
bridge
broadcasting
business
fencing
finance
games
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
media
military
mining
politics
soccer
sports
television
war
Etymology: From alteration of stripe or from Middle Low German strippe, of uncertain ultimate origin, perhaps derived from a lost strong verb Proto-Germanic *strīpaną, with no clear cognates outside of Germanic except for Irish sríab (“line, stripe”).
Inflected forms:
form: strips
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: strips
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stripping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stripped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stripped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The countries were in dispute over the ownership of a strip of desert about 100 metres wide.
gloss: A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
pos: noun
tags: countable
sometimes
uncountable
usually
examples: Papier mache is made from strips of paper.
Squeeze a strip of glue along the edge and then press down firmly.
I have some strip left over after fitting out the kitchen.
At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.
First, marinate the tofu. In a bowl, whisk the kecap manis, chilli sauce, and sesame oil together. Cut the tofu into strips about 1cm thick, mix gently (so it doesn't break) with the marinade and leave in the fridge for half an hour.
gloss: A comic strip.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A landing strip.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A strip steak.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: A trough for washing ore.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: You learn, in 'Cleaning Arms,' how rust may cause a 'strip,' and how it must interfere with expansion. I need hardly say, that if the grooves be filled up, the rotation will be lost; or if the grooves be partially filled up, the rotation will be weak,
He has fired more than 100 rounds per barrel at a time, from nearly all the barrels converted on this system, without cleaning, and without having a strip, or failure as regards vertical accuracy.
What struck me as very marvellous was that in the course of a day's firing, with so many varieties of "part" rifling, there was not a single strip; I expected to have seen some strips, for the ammunition was exceeding bad, independently of the novelty of the "part" system.
gloss: A television series aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ABC-TV this week put into effect its long anticipated plans to move into daytime programming in a bigger way by opening up its 4-5 across-the-board strip. The web is using its "Mickey Mouse Club," which is stoutly anchored in the 5-6 p.m. slot, as a backing up point for its afternoon expansion.
gloss: An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one call and two put options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bearish than a straddle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A strip club.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: You be throwing cash in the strip
My lil' bitch sucking dick for the free.
gloss: To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.
gloss: To take off clothing.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
usually
examples: Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.
The hy auter he strypte naked;
There on he stode, and craked;
He shoke downe all the clothys,
And sware horryble othes
Before the face of God, […]
The prosecution case was that the men forced the sisters to strip, threw their clothes over the bridge, then raped them and participated in forcing them to jump into the river to their deaths. As he walked off the bridge, Clemons was alleged to have said: "We threw them off. Let's go."
gloss: To perform a striptease.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping.
gloss: To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test.
They had stripped the forest bare, with not a tree left standing.
Don't park your car here overnight, otherwise it will be stripped by morning.
They stript Joseph out of his coat.
opinions which […] no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown
1856, Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI
He was obliged to sell his silver piece by piece; next he sold the drawing-room furniture. All the rooms were stripped; but the bedroom, her own room, remained as before.
The lawyer and twice-divorced mother of three had presented herself as the modern face of her party, trying to strip it of unsavoury overtones after her father's convictions for saying the Nazi occupation of France was not "particularly inhumane".
After the confession, the lawsuits. Lance Armstrong's extended appearance on the Oprah Winfrey network, in which the man stripped of seven Tour de France wins finally admitted to doping, has opened him up to several multi-million dollar legal challenges.
The train operating company owning group warned in early December that it was unable to publish its results for the year to July 3 2021, following an investigation into the running of Southeastern, which was stripped of its franchise in October [...].
gloss: To remove cargo from (a container).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Don't tighten that bolt any more or you'll strip the thread.
The screw is stripped.
gloss: To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Well, strange to say, it is the opinion of "Stonehenge," and other good judges, that no rifle so readily strips its ball, which consequently passes through the barrel without receiving the rotatory motion, and performs the most eccentric flights.
gloss: To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The number of grooves being only three, admits of these being shallow, so that the ball does not strip readily, while a further most ingenious adaptation is that the grooves be trice as deep (but, let the reader remember that such measurements are made by five-thousanths of an inch) at the breech as at the mizzle, so that the ball always becoming more compressed as it leaves the barrel.
gloss: To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
pos: verb
gloss: To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: when first they stripp'd the Malean promontory
Before he reached it he was out of breath, / And then the other stript him.
gloss: To remove the insulation from a wire/cable.
pos: verb
gloss: To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
pos: verb
gloss: To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
pos: verb
gloss: To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
pos: verb
gloss: To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
pos: verb
Synonyms: deprive
peel
uncover
Derived words: antistrip
asset-strip
bestrip
field strip
hand strip
misstrip
restrip
strip away
strip down
strip Jack naked
stripleaf
strip-leaf
striploin
strip me naked
strip off
strip out
strippable
strippage
stripped down
stripper
strippery
striptease
strip the willow
strip to the waist
unstrip
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: rrip
lang: Arabic
word: شَرِيط
roman: šarīṭ
lang: Arabic
word: قِطَاع
roman: qiṭāʕ
lang: Arabic
word: خَطّ
roman: ḵaṭṭ
lang: Azerbaijani
word: zolaq
lang: Azerbaijani
word: zol
lang: Bashkir
word: һыҙыҡ
roman: hıźıq
lang: Bashkir
word: һыҙат
roman: hıźat
lang: Bulgarian
word: ивица
roman: ivica
lang: Bulgarian
word: полоса
roman: polosa
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 條 /条
roman: tiáo
lang: Czech
word: pruh
lang: Finnish
word: kaistale
lang: Finnish
word: suikale
lang: French
word: bande
lang: Galician
word: tira
lang: German
word: Streifen
lang: Greek
word: λωρίδα
roman: lorída
lang: Greek
word: ταινία
roman: tainía
lang: Hebrew
word: רְצוּעָה
roman: r'tzu'á
lang: Icelandic
word: strimill
lang: Indonesian
word: jalur
lang: Irish
word: stráice
lang: Italian
word: lista
lang: Italian
word: striscia
lang: Italian
word: listello
lang: Italian
word: reggetta
lang: Japanese
word: 切れ
roman: kire
lang: Kazakh
word: жолақ
roman: jolaq
lang: Latvian
word: sloksne
lang: Malay
word: genting
lang: Māori
word: ngaku
lang: Eastern Mari
word: серыш
roman: seryš
lang: Mongolian
word: зурвас
roman: zurvas
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: strimmel
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: stripe
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: strimmel
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: stripe
lang: Polish
word: pas
lang: Portuguese
word: tira
lang: Romanian
word: fâșie
lang: Russian
word: полоса́
roman: polosá
lang: Russian
word: поло́ска
roman: polóska
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: bann
lang: Slovak
word: pruh
lang: Spanish
word: franja
lang: Spanish
word: tira
lang: Spanish
word: lista
lang: Spanish
word: lienza
lang: Spanish
word: listón
lang: Swedish
word: remsa
lang: Swedish
word: strimla
lang: Taos
word: cʼúnena (of deerhide)
lang: Turkish
word: şerit
lang: Ukrainian
word: сму́га
roman: smúha
lang: Vietnamese
word: dải
lang: Walloon
word: binde
lang: Bulgarian
word: отнемам
roman: otnemam
lang: Bulgarian
word: отнема
roman: otnema
lang: Bulgarian
word: ограбвам
roman: ograbvam
lang: Bulgarian
word: ограбя
roman: ograbja
lang: Finnish
word: ryöstää
lang: Finnish
word: riistää
lang: Finnish
word: riisua
lang: Finnish
word: ottaa pois
lang: French
word: dépouiller
lang: French
word: priver
lang: French
word: déposséder
lang: Irish
word: feann
lang: Italian
word: derubare
lang: Italian
word: privare
lang: Italian
word: svuotare
lang: Japanese
word: 奪い取る
roman: ubai-toru
lang: Romanian
word: prădui
lang: Romanian
word: seca
lang: Romanian
word: despuia
lang: Spanish
word: despojar