Strip
WordNet
noun
(1) A form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music
"She did a strip right in front of everyone"
(2) An airfield without normal airport facilities
(3) Artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
(4) Thin piece of wood or metal
(5) A sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book
(6) A relatively long narrow piece of something
"He felt a flat strip of muscle"
verb
(7) Get undressed
"Please don't undress in front of everybody!"
"She strips in front of strangers every night for a living"
(8) Draw the last milk (of cows)
(9) Take off or remove
"Strip a wall of its wallpaper"
(10) Remove a constituent from a liquid
(11) Remove the thread (of screws)
(12) Lay bare
"Denude a forest"
(13) Remove substances from by a percolating liquid
"Leach the soil"
(14) Remove the surface from
"Strip wood"
(15) Strip the cured leaves from
"Strip tobacco"
(16) Remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely
"The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"
"The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm"
(17) Take away possessions from someone
"The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"
(18) Steal goods; take as spoils
"During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
WiktionaryText
Etymology 1
From alteration of or from
Noun
- 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
- 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.
Etymology 2
From , , from
Verb
- To remove or take away.
- Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.
- To take off clothing.
- To do a striptease.
- To completely take away, to plunder.
- The robbers stripped Norm of everything he owned.
- To remove the threads from a screw or the teeth from a gear.
- 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).