Strip

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A long narrow piece, usually of uniform width.
  • noun. A long narrow region of land or body of water.
  • noun. A comic strip.
  • noun. An airstrip.
  • noun. An area, as along a busy street or highway, that is lined with a great number and variety of commercial establishments.
  • transitive verb. To cut or tear into strips.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To remove clothing or covering from.
  • intransitive verb. To remove or take off (clothing or covering).
  • intransitive verb. To remove an exterior coating, as of paint or varnish, from.
  • intransitive verb. To remove the leaves from the stalks of (tobacco, for example).
  • intransitive verb. To clear of a natural covering or growth; make bare.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To deprive of possessions, office, rank, privileges, or honors; divest.
  • intransitive verb. To rob of wealth or property; plunder or despoil.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To remove equipment, furnishings, or accessories from.
  • intransitive verb. To remove nonessential detail from; reduce to essentials.
  • intransitive verb. To dismantle (a firearm, for example) piece by piece.
  • intransitive verb. To damage or break the threads of (a screw, for example) or the teeth of (a gear).
  • intransitive verb. To press the last drops of milk from (a cow or goat, for example) at the end of milking.
  • intransitive verb. To mount (a photographic positive or negative) on paper to be used in making a printing plate.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To undress completely.
  • intransitive verb. To perform a striptease.
  • intransitive verb. To fall away or be removed; peel.
  • noun. A striptease.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A rill.
  • noun. Destruction of fences, buildings, timber, etc.; waste.
  • To remove the mold from (an ingot) after casting the latter, in steel-making processes where fluid steel is cast in metallic molds with continuous walls.
  • noun. A narrow piece, comparatively long: as, a strip of cloth; a strip of territory.
  • noun. An ornamental appendage to women's dress, formerly worn: it is spoken of as worn on the neck and breast.
  • noun. A stripling; a slip.
  • noun. In joinery, a narrow piece of board nailed over a crack or joint between planks.
  • noun. In mining, one of a series of troughs forming a labyrinth, or some similar arrangement, through which the ore flows as it comes from the stamps, and in which the particles are deposited in the order of their equivalence.
  • To rob; plunder; despoil; deprive; divest; bereave: with of before the thing taken away: as, to strip a man of his possessions; to strip a tree of its fruit.
  • To deprive of covering; remove the skin or outer covering of; skin; peel: with of before the thing removed: as, to strip a beast of its skin; to strip a tree of its bark.
  • To uncover; unsheathe.
  • To unrig: as, to strip a ship.
  • To tear off the thread of: said of a screw or bolt: as, the screw was stripped.
  • To pull or tear off, as a covering or some adhering substance: as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back: sometimes emphasized with off.
  • To milk dry; press all the milk out of: as, to strip a cow.
  • In fish-culture, to press or squeeze the ripe roe or milt out of (fishes).
  • In agriculture, to pare off the surface of in strips, and turn over the strips upon the adjoining surface.
  • To separate; put away: with from.
  • In tobacco manufacturing, to separate (the wings of the tobacco-leaf) from the stems.
  • In carding, to clean (the teeth of the various cylinders and top flats) from short fibers.
  • In file-making, to cross-file and draw-file (a file-blank) in order to bring it to accurate form and to clean the surface preliminary to grinding and cutting.
  • In mining, to remove the overlying soil or detrital material from (any bed or mineral deposit which it is desired to open and work).
  • Word Usage
    "Much has been made by some of how Canadian the strip is and I suppose with the constantly changing seasons there is a particularly distinct northern humor and sensibility."
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    Chip  Crip  Flip  Kip  Nip  
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    band  belt  bit  chunk  coat  
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