strip

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[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

[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.
[edit] Derived terms
terms derived from strip (noun)
[edit] Translations
long, thin piece of a bigger item
series of drawings, a comic strip
landing strip
a street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities
shortened form of striptease

[edit] Etymology 2

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

[edit] Verb

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.
    • 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
      He was obliged to sell his silver piece by piece; next he sold the drawing-room furniture. All the rooms were stripped; but the bedroom, her own room, remained as before.
  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).
  9. (transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
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[edit] Quotations
[edit] Derived terms
terms derived from strip (verb)
[edit] Translations
to remove or take away
to take off clothing
to do a striptease
to completely take away, to plunder
metaphore for road
[edit] References
  • OED 2nd edition 1989
  • Funk&Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary

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[edit] Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

Wikipedia nl

[edit] Etymology

From English strip.

[edit] Noun

strip m.

  1. comic (a cartoon story)

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[edit] Verb

strip

  1. first-person singular present indicative of strippen.
  2. imperative of strippen.

[edit] Serbo-Croatian

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /strîp/

[edit] Etymology

From English strip.

[edit] Noun

strȉp m. (Cyrillic spelling стри̏п)

  1. comic (a cartoon story)

[edit] Declension

    declension of strip
singular plural
nominative strip stripovi
genitive stripa stripova
dative stripu stripovima
accusative strip stripove
vocative stripe stripovi
locative stripu stripovima
instrumental stripom stripovima
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