strip

B1
Pronunciation
/stɹɪp/
Noun
13 definition(s)
1 Definition

A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.

Example Sentences
  • The countries were in dispute over the ownership of a strip of desert about 100 metres wide.
2 Definition

(usually countable, sometimes uncountable) A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.

Example Sentences
  • I have some strip left over after fitting out the kitchen.
3 Definition

A comic strip.

4 Definition

A landing strip.

5 Definition

A strip steak.

6 Definition

A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.

7 Definition

The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.

8 Definition

The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.

9 Definition

A trough for washing ore.

10 Definition

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

11 Definition

A television series aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.

12 Definition

The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.

Example Sentences
  • She stood up on the table and did a strip.
13 Definition

(of games) Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.

Example Sentences
  • strip poker; strip Scrabble
Verb
20 definition(s)
1 Definition

To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.

Example Sentences
  • Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.
2 Definition

(usually intransitive) To take off clothing.

Example Sentences
  • Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.
3 Definition

To perform a striptease.

Example Sentences
  • In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping.
4 Definition

To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.

Example Sentences
  • The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test.
5 Definition

To remove cargo from (a container).

6 Definition

To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.

Example Sentences
  • Don't tighten that bolt any more or you'll strip the thread.
7 Definition

To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.

8 Definition

To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.

9 Definition

To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)

10 Definition

To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).

11 Definition

To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.

12 Definition

To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.

13 Definition

To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.

14 Definition

To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.

15 Definition

To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).

16 Definition

To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.

17 Definition

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

18 Definition

To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.

19 Definition

To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".

20 Definition

To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).