strip : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: strip	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for strip
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
strip n a relatively long narrow piece of something; "he felt a flat strip of muscle" artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material Synonym(s): strip, slip an airfield without normal airport facilities Synonym(s): airstrip, flight strip, landing strip, strip a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book Synonym(s): comic strip, cartoon strip, strip, funnies thin piece of wood or metal a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music; "she did a strip right in front of everyone" Synonym(s): strip, striptease, strip show v take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets" Synonym(s): deprive, strip, divest get undressed; "please don't undress in front of everybody!"; "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living" Synonym(s): undress, discase, uncase, unclothe, strip, strip down, disrobe, peel Antonym(s): apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, get dressed, habilitate, raiment, tog remove the surface from; "strip wood" remove substances from by a percolating liquid; "leach the soil" Synonym(s): leach, strip lay bare; "denude a forest" Synonym(s): denude, bare, denudate, strip steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" Synonym(s): plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely; "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm" Synonym(s): clean, strip strip the cured leaves from; "strip tobacco" remove the thread (of screws) remove a constituent from a liquid take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper" Synonym(s): strip, dismantle draw the last milk (of cows) remove (someone's or one's own) clothes; "The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim"; "She divested herself of her outdoor clothes"; "He disinvested himself of his garments" Synonym(s): strip, undress, divest, disinvest
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. And strippen her out of her rude array. --Chaucer. They stripped Joseph out of his coat. --Gen. xxxvii. 23. Opinions which . . . no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown. --Macaulay. 2. To divest of clothing; to uncover. Before the folk herself strippeth she. --Chaucer. Strip your sword stark naked. --Shak. 3. (Naut.) To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc. 4. (Agric.) To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips. 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. 6. To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip. [Obs.] When first they stripped the Malean promontory. --Chapman. Before he reached it he was out of breath, And then the other stripped him. --Beau. & Fl. 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. To strip bad habits from a corrupted heart, is stripping off the skin. --Gilpin. 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. 9. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action. 10. (Carding) To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged. 11. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into [bd]hands[b8]; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Strip \Strip\, v. i. 1. To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress. 2. (Mach.) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See {Strip}, v. t., 8.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Strip \Strip\, n. 1. A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land. 2. (Mining) A trough for washing ore. 3. (Gunnery) The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion. --Farrow.