Meaning of 'strip' (Webster Dictionary)
- A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of
cloth; a strip of land.
- A trough for washing ore.
- The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without
acquiring the spiral motion.
- To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering;
to undress.
- To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt,
screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8.
- To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder;
especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a
man of his possession, his rights, his privileges, his reputation; to
strip one of his clothes; to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree
of its bark.
- To divest of clothing; to uncover.
- To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.
- To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.
- To deprive of all milk; to milk dry; to draw the last
milk from; hence, to milk with a peculiar movement of the hand on the
teats at the last of a milking; as, to strip a cow.
- To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
- To pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest
away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a
tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back; to strip away all
disguisses.
- To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the
thread is stripped.
- To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt
is stripped.
- To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as
by acids or electrolytic action.
- To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the
teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
- To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and
tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
Meaning of 'strip' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- a relatively long narrow piece of something
Example in sentence:- he felt a flat strip of muscle
Meaning (2):
- a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music
Example in sentence:- she did a strip right in front of everyone
Meaning (3):
- lay bare
Example in sentence:- bare your breasts;
- bare your feelings;
- denude a forest
Meaning (4):
- steal goods; take as spoils
Example in sentence:- During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners
Meaning (5):
- remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
Example in sentence:- He disinvested himself of his garments;
- She divested herself of her outdoor clothes;
- The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim
Meaning (6):
- remove substances from by a percolating liquid
Meaning (7):
- get undressed
Example in sentence:- please don't undress in front of everybody!;
- She strips in front of strangers every night for a living
Meaning (8):
- take off or remove
Example in sentence:- strip a wall of its wallpaper
Meaning (9):
- strip the cured leaves from
Meaning (10):
- remove the surface from
Meaning (11):
- remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely
Example in sentence:- The boys cleaned the sandwich platters;
- The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm
Meaning (12):
- take away possessions from someone
Example in sentence:- The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets
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