Noun
a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music; "she did a strip right in front of everyone"

Noun
an airfield without normal airport facilities

Noun
artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material

Noun
thin piece of wood or metal

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

Noun
a relatively long narrow piece of something; "he felt a flat strip of muscle"

Verb
get undressed; "please don''t undress in front of everybody!"; "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living"

Verb
remove (someone''s or one''s own) clothes; "The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim"; "She divested herself of her outdoor clothes"; "He disinvested himself of his garments"

Verb
draw the last milk (of cows)

Verb
take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper"

Verb
remove a constituent from a liquid

Verb
remove the thread (of screws)

Verb
lay bare; "denude a forest"

Verb
remove substances from by a percolating liquid; "leach the soil"

Verb
remove the surface from; "strip wood"

Verb
strip the cured leaves from; "strip tobacco"

Verb
remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely; "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm"

Verb
take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"

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

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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.

v. t.
To divest of clothing; to uncover.

v. t.
To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.

v. t.
To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.

v. t.
To deprive of all milk; to milk dry; to draw the last milk from; hence, to milk with a peculiar movement of the hand on the teats at the last of a milking; as, to strip a cow.

v. t.
To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.

v. t.
To pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back; to strip away all disguisses.

v. t.
To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped.

v. t.
To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped.

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

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

v. t.
To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

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

v. i.
To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8.

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

n.
A trough for washing ore.

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

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Strip

Strip , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stripped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Stripping.] [OE. stripen, strepen, AS. strpan in bestrpan to plunder; akin to D. stroopen, MHG. stroufen, G. streifen.] 1. 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.

And strippen her out of her rude array.

They stripped Joseph out of his coat.

Opinions which . . . no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown.

2. To divest of clothing; to uncover.

Before the folk herself strippeth she.

Strip your sword stark naked.

3. (Naut.) To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc. 4. (Agric.) To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips. 5. To deprive of all milk; to milk dry; to draw the last milk from; hence, to milk with a peculiar movement of the hand on the teats at the last of a milking; as, to strip a cow. 6. To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip. [Obs.]

When first they stripped the Malean promontory.

Before he reached it he was out of breath, And then the other stripped him.

7. To pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back; to strip away all disguisses.

To strip bad habits from a corrupted heart, is stripping off the skin.

8. (Mach.) (a) To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped. (b) To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped. 9. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action. 10. (Carding) To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged. 11. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

Strip

Strip , v. i. 1. To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress. 2. (Mach.) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8.

Strip

Strip, n. 1. A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land. 2. (Mining) A trough for washing ore. 3. (Gunnery) The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion. Farrow.

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.

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