strip

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Derived terms 1.2.1.2 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Verb 1.3.1.1 Synonyms 1.3.1.2 Quotations 1.3.1.3 Derived terms 1.3.1.4 Translations 1.4 External links 1.5 Anagrams 2 Dutch 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Noun 2.2.1 Derived terms 3 Serbo-Croatian 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Etymology 3.3 Noun 3.3.1 Declension

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[edit] Pronunciation

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• enPR: strĭp, IPA: /strɪp/, SAMPA: /strIp/

  Rhymes: -ɪp

[edit] Etymology 1

From alteration of stripe or from Middle Low German strippe

[edit] Noun

strip (plural strips)

1. a long, thin piece of a bigger item
   • You use strips of paper in papier mache.
2. a series of drawings, a comic strip
3. a landing strip
4. a street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities
5. (fencing) The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
6. (UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
7. shortened form of striptease.

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[edit] Etymology 2

From Middle English strepen, strippen, from Old English strīepan (“‘plunder’”)

[edit] Verb

to strip (third-person singular simple present strips, present participle stripping, simple past and past participle stripped or stript)

1. (transitive) To remove or take away.
   • Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.
2. (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
3. (intransitive) To do a striptease.
4. (transitive) To completely take away, to plunder.
   • The robbers stripped Norm of everything he owned.
5. (transitive) To remove the threads from a screw or the teeth from a gear.
6. (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
7. (transitive) (bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze.)
8. (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).

[edit] Synonyms

• deprive
• peel
• uncover

[edit] Quotations

• For examples of the usage of this term see the citations page.

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[edit] External links

• Strip on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Strip in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: iprst
• sprit
• stirp
• trips, TRIPS

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[edit] Dutch

Wikipedia ^nl

[edit] Etymology

From English strip.

[edit] Noun

strip m.

1. comic (a cartoon story)

[edit] Derived terms

• striptekenaar

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[edit] Serbo-Croatian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /strîp/

[edit] Etymology

From English strip.

[edit] Noun

strȉp m. (Cyrillic spelling стри̏п)

1. comic (a cartoon story)

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