strip
- strip
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noun
1 long, narrow piece
ADJECTIVE
▪ long
▪ narrow, thin, tiny
▪ thick, wide
▪ Cut the meat into thick strips.
▪ plastic
▪ magnetic
▪ a card with a magnetic strip on the back
▪ chicken (esp. AmE)
▪ test
▪ The kit contains five test strips.
▪ rumble (BrE)
▪ The road has speed bumps, crash barriers and rumble strips.
▪ coastal
▪ landing
▪ This aircraft requires a good-sized landing strip.
STRIP + NOUN
▪ steak (AmE)
PREPOSITION
▪ in strips
▪ The wallpaper can then be torn off in strips.
▪ strip of
▪ a narrow strip of leather
PHRASES
▪ cut sth into strips, tear sth into strips
2 taking clothes off
STRIP + NOUN
▪ bar, club, joint (esp. AmE)
▪ show
▪ poker
▪ search
{{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}} verb
1 take off your/sb's clothes
PREPOSITION
▪ off
▪ We stripped off and went for a swim.
▪ (down) to
▪ Office workers stripped down to their shirtsleeves in the heatwave.
PHRASES
▪ strip (sb) naked
▪ He was stripped naked and left alone in a cell.
▪ strip to the waist
▪ He stripped to the waist and began to dig.
2 take sth away
ADVERB
▪ completely
▪ away, off, out
▪ Strip out any damaged wiring.
PREPOSITION
▪ from
▪ The bark is stripped from the trees by hand.
▪ of
▪ The president had been completely stripped of power.
▪ off
▪ We stripped all the paint off the walls.
PHRASES
▪ strip sth bare
▪ The room had been stripped bare by the thieves.
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strip# — strip vb Strip, divest, denude, bare, dismantle can mean to deprive a person or thing of what clothes, furnishes, or invests him or it. Strip stresses a pulling or tearing off rather than a laying bare, though the latter implication is frequent;… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
Strip — Strip, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stripped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stripping}.] [OE. stripen, strepen, AS. str?pan in bestr?pan to plunder; akin to D. stroopen, MHG. stroufen, G. streifen.] 1. To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Strip — Студийный альбом Адам Ант Дата выпуска ноябрь 1983 Записан … Википедия
strip — strip1 [strip] vt. stripped, stripping [ME strepen < OE stripan, akin to streifen, to strip off < IE * streub < base * ster , to streak, stroke > STRIKE] 1. to remove (the clothing or covering) of or from (a person); make naked;… … English World dictionary
Strip me? — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda strip me? Álbum de Anna Tsuchiya Publicación 2 de agosto, 2006 Grabación 2005, 2006 … Wikipedia Español
strip — ‘narrow piece’ [15] and strip ‘remove covering’ [13] are distinct words. The former was perhaps borrowed from Middle Low German strippe ‘strap’, and may be related to English stripe [17], an acquisition from Middle Dutch strīfe. A stripling [13]… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
strip — ‘narrow piece’ [15] and strip ‘remove covering’ [13] are distinct words. The former was perhaps borrowed from Middle Low German strippe ‘strap’, and may be related to English stripe [17], an acquisition from Middle Dutch strīfe. A stripling [13]… … Word origins
Strip — Strip, n. 1. A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land. [1913 Webster] 2. (Mining) A trough for washing ore. [1913 Webster] 3. (Gunnery) The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Strip Me? — Álbum de Anna Tsuchiya Publicación 2 de agosto, 2006 Grabación 2005, 2006 Género(s) J Rock, Punk … Wikipedia Español
Strip Me? — Album par Anna Tsuchiya Sortie 2 août 2006 24 octobre 2006 … Wikipédia en Français
Strip — Strip, v. i. 1. To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress. [1913 Webster] 2. (Mach.) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See {Strip}, v. t., 8. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
