Definition of Strip

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Definition of Strip

Strip

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.

To divest of clothing; to uncover.

To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.

To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.

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.

To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.

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 tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped.

To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped.

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

To remove fiber, 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).

To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress.

To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8.

A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land.

A trough for washing ore.

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

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Strip Quotations

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Winston Churchill

I've always liked Atlanta. And not just for the strip clubs, but the shopping and the food.
Jon Stewart

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Georgia O'Keeffe

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.
Jose Marti

The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
Bill Watterson

At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
Jean Baudrillard

I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn't fully appreciate. But I'm now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies.
Ben Affleck

I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life.
Matt Groening

What's even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they're doing from the public. They strip the labels off miracle wheat when they ship it, for instance, and say, 'Watch out. Don't plant too much and don't depend on it too much.'
David R. Brower

My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.
Maya Lin

Strip Translations

strip in Afrikaans is band
strip in Dutch is strip, windsel, strook, reep
strip in Finnish is juova, nauha
strip in German is entkleiden, abschneiden, abstreifen, isolieren
strip in Italian is lista, denudare, smontare
strip in Portuguese is tira
strip in Spanish is desnudarse, desmontar, tira, raya
strip in Swedish is strimma, remsa

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