strip

Definitions

General English

General Science

  • verb to

    dismantle

    an engine or other device

Agriculture

  • verb to remove a covering from something

Banking

  • noun an action of separating coupons from a bond

Cars & Driving

Computing

  • verb to remove the

    control data

    from a received message, leaving only the relevant

    information

Construction

  • board

    lumber

    1" in

    nominal

    thickness and less than 4" in width, frequently the product of

    ripping

    a wider piece of lumber. The most common sizes are 1" x 2" and 1" x 3". See also

    furring

    .
  • To remove

    formwork

    or molds.
  • To remove an old finish with paint removers.
  • To damage the threads on a nut or bolt.

Cricket

  • noun the area between the two sets of

    stumps

    , especially when considered in terms of its qualities as a playing surface; the wicket
    Citation ‘Selected on the merits of an end of season spurt, Wayne Holdsworth never came to grips with the slower, more placid English strips’ (Peter hook, Australian Cricket October 1993)

Electronics

  • A long and narrow piece or section. For example, a

    magnetic stripe

    .
  • To remove the insulation or

    jacket

    from a wire or cable.
  • To remove from an object or material. For instance, to strip an

    electron

    from a surface.

Media Studies

  • verb to put pieces of

    photographic

    film or paper together to make a plate for

    printing

Medical

  • noun a long

    thin

    piece of

    material

    or tissue
  • verb to

    take

    off something, especially clothes

Military

  • verb to take off all your clothing

Publishing

  • noun a narrow piece of paper or film

Real Estate

  • verb to remove old paint or varnish from a

    surface

    by scraping or burning it or by using a chemical
  • verb to remove all the contents from a

    room

    or

    building

Travel

  • noun an act of taking your clothes off, often as an

    entertainment

    for other people

Origin & History of “strip”

Strip ‘narrow piece’ (15th c.) and strip ‘remove covering’ (13th c.) are

distinct

words. The

former

was

perhaps

borrowed

from

middle Low German strippe ‘strap’, and may be related to

English

stripe (17th c.), an acquisition from Middle Dutch strīfe. A stripling (13th c.) is etymologically someone who is as

thin

as a ‘strip’. Strip ‘unclothe’ goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *straupjan,

which

also

produced German streifen and Dutch stroopen.

there

was

once

a

third

English word strip, meaning ‘move quickly’, but it now survives

only

in the derived outstrip (16th c.); its origins are uncertain.
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