'Strip' definitions:
Definition of 'strip'
(from WordNet)
noun
A relatively long narrow piece of something; "he felt a flat strip of muscle"
noun
Artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material [syn: strip, slip]
noun
noun
A sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book [syn: comic strip, cartoon strip, strip, funnies]
noun
Thin piece of wood or metal
noun
A form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music; "she did a strip right in front of everyone" [syn: strip, striptease, strip show]
verb
Take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets" [syn: deprive, strip, divest]
verb
Get undressed; "please don't undress in front of everybody!"; "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living" [syn: undress, discase, uncase, unclothe, strip, strip down, disrobe, peel] [ant: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, get dressed, habilitate, raiment, tog]
verb
Remove the surface from; "strip wood"
verb
Remove substances from by a percolating liquid; "leach the soil" [syn: leach, strip]
verb
verb
Steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn: plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray]
verb
Remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely; "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm" [syn: clean, strip]
verb
Strip the cured leaves from; "strip tobacco"
verb
Remove the thread (of screws)
verb
Remove a constituent from a liquid
verb
Take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper" [syn: strip, dismantle]
verb
Draw the last milk (of cows)
verb
Definition of 'Strip'
From: GCIDE
- 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; 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. [1913 Webster]
- And strippen her out of her rude array. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- They stripped Joseph out of his coat. --Gen. xxxvii. 23. [1913 Webster]
- Opinions which . . . no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To divest of clothing; to uncover. [1913 Webster]
- Before the folk herself strippeth she. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Strip your sword stark naked. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Naut.) To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Agric.) To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips. [1913 Webster]
- 5. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- When first they stripped the Malean promontory. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
- Before he reached it he was out of breath, And then the other stripped him. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
- 7. 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. [1913 Webster]
- To strip bad habits from a corrupted heart, is stripping off the skin. --Gilpin. [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Mach.) (a) To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped. (b) To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped. [1913 Webster]
- 9. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action. [1913 Webster]
- 10. (Carding) To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged. [1913 Webster]
- 11. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves). [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Strip'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'Strip'
From: GCIDE
- 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 spiral motion. --Farrow. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'strip'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abscind,
- adhesive tape,
- airstrip,
- amputate,
- annihilate,
- apron,
- ban,
- band,
- bandage,
- bandeau,
- bankrupt,
- bar,
- bare,
- bark,
- batten,
- belt,
- bereave,
- billet,
- bleed,
- bleed white,
- bob,
- bolt,
- boot,
- bounce,
- break,
- bump,
- bust,
- call,
- can,
- cashier,
- cellophane tape,
- clearway,
- clip,
- cloth tape,
- coil,
- confiscate,
- crop,
- cross-hatching,
- cull,
- cut,
- cut away,
- cut off,
- cut out,
- dash,
- decorticate,
- defoliate,
- defrock,
- degrade,
- delineation,
- demote,
- denudate,
- denude,
- deplume,
- depose,
- depredate,
- deprive,
- desecrate,
- desolate,
- despoil,
- devastate,
- diagonal,
- disarray,
- disbar,
- discharge,
- disemploy,
- dismantle,
- dismember,
- dismiss,
- displace,
- displume,
- dispossess,
- disrobe,
- divest,
- do a strip-tease,
- dock,
- doff,
- dotted line,
- drain,
- draw and quarter,
- drum out,
- dry,
- eliminate,
- enucleate,
- eradicate,
- except,
- excise,
- exclude,
- excoriate,
- exhaust,
- expel,
- expose,
- expropriate,
- extinguish,
- extirpate,
- fairway,
- fascia,
- fillet,
- fire,
- flay,
- fleece,
- flight deck,
- friction tape,
- furlough,
- girdle,
- give the ax,
- give the gate,
- hachure,
- hairline,
- hatching,
- impoverish,
- ingot,
- isolate,
- kick,
- kick upstairs,
- knock off,
- lacerate,
- landing deck,
- landing strip,
- lath,
- lay bare,
- lay off,
- lay open,
- let go,
- let out,
- ligula,
- ligule,
- line,
- lineation,
- list,
- loot,
- lop,
- maim,
- make redundant,
- mangle,
- masking tape,
- milk,
- mutilate,
- Mystik tape,
- nip,
- option,
- pare,
- part,
- peel,
- pension off,
- pick clean,
- pick out,
- pick to pieces,
- piece,
- pillage,
- plank,
- plastic tape,
- pluck,
- plunder,
- portion,
- prune,
- pull apart,
- put,
- put and call,
- ransack,
- read out of,
- release,
- remove,
- replace,
- retire,
- ribband,
- ribbon,
- right,
- rip off,
- rob,
- rod,
- roll,
- root out,
- rule out,
- run,
- runway,
- sack,
- scale,
- scalp,
- score,
- Scotch tape,
- section,
- segment,
- seize,
- separate forcibly,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- shave,
- shear,
- shred,
- skin,
- slab,
- slash,
- slat,
- slip,
- spill,
- spline,
- spoliate,
- spread,
- stamp out,
- stick,
- stock option,
- straddle,
- strake,
- strap,
- streak,
- streaking,
- striation,
- strike off,
- string,
- strip bare,
- strip off,
- stripe,
- striping,
- stripping,
- stroke,
- strop,
- sublineation,
- suck dry,
- superannuate,
- surplus,
- suspend,
- swath,
- swathe,
- taenia,
- take apart,
- take away,
- take off,
- take out,
- tape,
- tape measure,
- tapeline,
- tear apart,
- tear to pieces,
- tear to tatters,
- ticker tape,
- truncate,
- turn off,
- turn out,
- unarray,
- uncase,
- uncloak,
- unclothe,
- uncover,
- underline,
- underlining,
- underscore,
- underscoring,
- undrape,
- undress,
- unfrock,
- unsheathe,
- unveil,
- virgule,
- waste,
- wipe out
Words containing 'Strip'
- Stripped,
- Stripping,
- strip down,
- Mobius strip,
- Moebius strip,
- Parker Strip,
- Parting strip,
- Ripping strip,
- Weather strip,
- bacon strip,
- barrier strip,
- bimetallic strip,
- cartoon strip,
- comic strip,
- flight strip,
- furring strip,
- gaza strip,
- landing strip,
- leather strip,
- strip alert,
- strip cropping,
- strip lighting,
- strip mall,
- strip mine,
- strip miner,
- strip mining,
- strip poker,
- strip search,
- strip show,
- strip steak,
- stripped-down,
- taxi strip,
- weather stripping,
- Parker Strip, AZ,
- Strip-leaf,
- new york strip,
- strip-mined,
- strip-search,
- strip-teaser,
- weather-stripped,
- strip-jack-naked