Strip
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English
Noun
Strip (plural Strips)- a long, thin piece of a bigger item
- You use strips of paper in papier mache.
- a series of drawings, a comic strip
- a landing strip
- a street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities
- (fencing) The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
- (UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
- shortened form of striptease.
Derived terms
Verb
Strip (third-person singular simple present strips, present participle stripping, simple past and past participle stripped or stript)
- (transitive) To remove or take away.
- Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.
- (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
- (intransitive) To do a striptease.
- (transitive) To completely take away, to plunder.
- The robbers stripped Norm of everything he owned.
- 1856: Gustave Flaubert , Madame Bovary , Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
- 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.
- (transitive) To remove the threads from a screw or the teeth from a gear.
- (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
- (transitive) (bridge (card game)) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze.)
- (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
- (transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
Synonyms
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Quotations
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Derived terms
Adjectives for Strip
tenacious; popular; marginal; shadowy; pestilential; tiny; strong.
Thesaurus
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From alteration of stripe or from Middle Low German strippe
Etymology 2
From Middle English strepen, strippen, from Old English strīepan (“plunder”)
Translations
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References
- OED 2nd edition 1989
- Funk&Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary
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Anagrams
Dutch
Noun
Strip m.
- comic (a cartoon story)
Derived terms
Verb
Strip
Etymology
From English strip.
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
strȉp m. (Cyrillic spelling стри̏п)
- comic (a cartoon story)
Pronunciation
- IPA: /strîp/
Etymology
From English strip.
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | strip | stripovi |
| genitive | stripa | stripova |
| dative | stripu | stripovima |
| accusative | strip | stripove |
| vocative | stripe | stripovi |
| locative | stripu | stripovima |
| instrumental | stripom | stripovima |
- English nouns
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- English verbs
- En:Bridge
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