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Strip

To remove clothing or covering from
Stripped the beds.

Runway

According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft". Runways may be a man-made surface (often asphalt, concrete, or a mixture of both) or a natural surface (grass, dirt, gravel, ice, sand or salt).

Strip

To remove or take off (clothing or covering)
Stripped off his shirt.

Runway

A strip of level, usually paved ground on which aircraft take off and land.

Strip

To remove an exterior coating, as of paint or varnish, from
Stripped the cabinets.
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Runway

A path, channel, or track over which something runs.

Strip

To remove the leaves from the stalks of (tobacco, for example).

Runway

The channel of a stream.

Strip

To clear of a natural covering or growth; make bare
Strip a field.

Runway

A chute down which logs are skidded.
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Strip

To deprive of possessions, office, rank, privileges, or honors; divest
The court stripped him of his property.

Runway

A narrow track in a bowling lane on which balls are returned after they are bowled.

Strip

To rob of wealth or property; plunder or despoil
Stripped the palace of its treasures.

Runway

A smooth ramp for wheeled vehicles.

Strip

To remove equipment, furnishings, or accessories from
They stripped down the car to reduce its weight.

Runway

A narrow walkway extending from a stage into an auditorium.

Strip

To remove nonessential detail from; reduce to essentials
The director stripped down her style of filmmaking.

Runway

A defined, narrow section of land or an artificial structure used for access.

Strip

To dismantle (a firearm, for example) piece by piece.

Runway

The usual path taken by deer or other wild animals, such as from a forest to a water source.

Strip

To damage or break the threads of (a screw, for example) or the teeth of (a gear).

Runway

A narrow walkway (often on a platform) extending from a stage on which people walk, especially one used by models during fashion shows.

Strip

To draw and discard the first drops of milk from the udder of (a cow or goat, for example) at the start of milking.

Runway

(athletics) In javelin, long jump, and similar events: a short track along which athletes can accelerate themselves for their jumps or throws.

Strip

To draw the last drops of milk from the udder of (a cow or goat, for example) at the end of milking.

Runway

(aviation) A section of land, usually paved, for airplanes to land on or take off from.

Strip

To extract the milt or roe from (a live fish).

Runway

Hence, the number of months that a startup company can operate by using up its cash reserves.

Strip

To draw in (a fishing line) by hand, as between casts with a fly rod.

Runway

A stream bed.

Strip

To mount (a photographic positive or negative) on paper to be used in making a printing plate.

Runway

The channel of a stream.

Strip

To undress completely.

Runway

The beaten path made by deer or other animals in passing to and from their feeding grounds.

Strip

To perform a striptease.

Runway

A narrow platform extending from the stage into the audience in a theater or nightclub etc.

Strip

To fall away or be removed; peel
The wallpaper strips away easily.

Runway

A strip of level paved surface where planes can take off and land

Strip

To cut or tear into strips.

Strip

A striptease.

Strip

A long narrow piece, usually of uniform width
A strip of paper.
Strips of beef.

Strip

A long narrow region of land or body of water.

Strip

A comic strip.

Strip

An airstrip.

Strip

An area, as along a busy street or highway, that is lined with a great number and variety of commercial establishments.

Strip

(countable) A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
The countries were in dispute over the ownership of a strip of desert about 100 metres wide.

Strip

A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
Papier mache is made from strips of paper.
Squeeze a strip of glue along the edge and then press down firmly.
I have some strip left over after fitting out the kitchen.

Strip

A comic strip.

Strip

A landing strip.

Strip

A strip steak.

Strip

(US) A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.

Strip

(fencing) The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.

Strip

The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.

Strip

(mining) A trough for washing ore.

Strip

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

Strip

(television) A television series aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.

Strip

(finance) An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one call and two put options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bearish than a straddle.

Strip

The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
She stood up on the table and did a strip.

Strip

Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.
Strip poker; strip Scrabble

Strip

(transitive) To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.

Strip

To take off clothing.
Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.

Strip

(intransitive) To perform a striptease.
In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping.

Strip

(transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test.
They had stripped the forest bare, with not a tree left standing.
Don't park your car here overnight, otherwise it will be stripped by morning.

Strip

(transitive) To remove cargo from (a container).

Strip

(transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
Don't tighten that bolt any more or you'll strip the thread.
The screw is stripped.

Strip

(intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.

Strip

(transitive) To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.

Strip

(intransitive) To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.

Strip

(transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.

Strip

To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)

Strip

(transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).

Strip

(transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.

Strip

To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.

Strip

To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.

Strip

To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.

Strip

(transitive) To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).

Strip

To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.

Strip

To remove the insulation from a wire/cable.

Strip

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

Strip

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

Strip

To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".

Strip

To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

Strip

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.

Strip

To divest of clothing; to uncover.
Before the folk herself strippeth she.
Strip your sword stark naked.

Strip

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

Strip

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

Strip

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.

Strip

To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
When first they stripped the Malean promontory.
Before he reached it he was out of breath,And then the other stripped him.

Strip

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.

Strip

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

Strip

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

Strip

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

Strip

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

Strip

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

Strip

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

Strip

A trough for washing ore.

Strip

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

Strip

A relatively long narrow piece of something;
He felt a flat strip of muscle

Strip

Artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material

Strip

An airfield without normal airport facilities

Strip

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

Strip

Thin piece of wood or metal

Strip

A form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music;
She did a strip right in front of everyone

Strip

Take away possessions from someone;
The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets

Strip

Get undressed;
Please don't undress in front of everybody!
She strips in front of strangers every night for a living

Strip

Remove the surface from;
Strip wood

Strip

Remove substances from by a percolating liquid;
Leach the soil

Strip

Lay bare;
Denude a forest

Strip

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

Strip

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

Strip

Strip the cured leaves from;
Strip tobacco

Strip

Remove the thread (of screws)

Strip

Remove a constituent from a liquid

Strip

Take off or remove;
Strip a wall of its wallpaper

Strip

Draw the last milk (of cows)

Strip

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

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