Lexic.us

Definition of Strip

1. Noun. A relatively long narrow piece of something. "He felt a flat strip of muscle"

2. Verb. Take away possessions from someone. "They strip him of all his money"; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"

3. Noun. Artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material.

4. Verb. Get undressed. "They strip themselves"; "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living"

5. Noun. An airfield without normal airport facilities.

6. Verb. Remove the surface from. "They strip the trees"; "Strip wood"

7. Noun. A sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book.

8. Verb. Remove substances from by a percolating liquid. "Leach the soil"

9. Noun. Thin piece of wood or metal.

10. Verb. Lay bare. "They strip the trees"; "Denude a forest"

11. Noun. A form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music. "She did a strip right in front of everyone"

12. Verb. Steal goods; take as spoils. "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"

13. Verb. Remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely. "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm"

14. Verb. Strip the cured leaves from. "Strip tobacco"

15. Verb. Remove the thread (of screws).

16. Verb. Remove a constituent from a liquid.

17. Verb. Take off or remove. "Strip a wall of its wallpaper"

18. Verb. Draw the last milk (of cows).

19. Verb. Remove (someone's or one's own) clothes. "They want to strip the prisoners "; "He disinvested himself of his garments"

Definition of Strip

1. v. t. 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.

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

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

Definition of Strip

1. to remove the outer covering from [v STRIPPED or STRIPT, STRIPPING, STRIPS]

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Strip

string bean string cheese string line string of beads string of words string orchestra string out string quartet string quartette string section

string tie string up strinkle strinkled strinkles strip (current term) strip-Jack-naked strip-mined strip-search stripe

striped striped bass striped button quail striped coral root striped dogwood striped drum striped gentian striped hyena striped killifish striped maple

Literary usage of Strip

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1903)
"The contention of the plaintiff is that the strip is to be taken as extending around ... The strip is described as "around and immediately within the outer ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"The railroad company also alleged that the shoe company had such strip Inclosed by certain fences and was continually blocking said strip— "by placing ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"The former describes the Public Land strip as •'bounded on the north by the States of Kansas and Colorado, on the east by the Indian Territory, ..."

4. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, LEXIS Law Publishing (1901)
"The decree then provides for the sale at public auction of such estate in remainder, excepting the strip, and of such life estate excepting the strip, ..."

5. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1901)
"B. Quite soon, however, the strip and ground began to lose saturation, and to approximate each other in brightness, until, in cases of complete ..."

6. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"His arms around him clash'd ; and to his side Bright Ajax ran to strip him of his mail. Then down the Trojans rain'da shower of spears, Sharp, ..."

7. A Treatise on the Law of Surveying and Boundaries by Frank Emerson Clark (1922)
"^'hether a strip of land between a river and the meander line is an accretion may depend on the intention of the government in leaving such strip. ..."

8. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1894)
"By means of a small strip of metal, fashioned after Fig. ... The strip, Fig. 1, or the arrow, Fig. 3, can be made in a few minutes of tinned iron, brass, ..."

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