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strip

/stɹɪp/

Phonetics

/stɹɪp/

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noun

  • A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.

    Example: The countries were in dispute over the ownership of a strip of desert about 100 metres wide.
  • (usually countable, sometimes uncountable) A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.

    Example: I have some strip left over after fitting out the kitchen.
  • A comic strip.

  • A landing strip.

  • A strip steak.

  • A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.

  • The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.

  • The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.

  • A trough for washing ore.

  • The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.

  • 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.


strip

/stɹɪp/

Phonetics

/stɹɪp/

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noun

  • The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.

    Example: She stood up on the table and did a strip.
  • (of games) Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.

    Example: strip poker; strip Scrabble

verb

  • To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.

    Example: Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.
  • (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.

    Example: Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.
  • To perform a striptease.

    Example: In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping.
  • To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.

    Example: The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test.
  • To remove cargo from (a container).

  • To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.

    Example: Don't tighten that bolt any more or you'll strip the thread.
  • To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.

  • To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.

  • To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)

  • To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).

  • To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.

  • To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.

  • 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.

  • To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.

  • To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).

  • To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.

  • To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.

  • To remove fibre, 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).