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stripping
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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.
--Chaucer.They stripped Joseph out of his coat.
--Gen. xxxvii. 23.Opinions which . . . no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown.
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To divest of clothing; to uncover.
Before the folk herself strippeth she.
--Chaucer.Strip your sword stark naked.
--Shak. (Naut.) To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.
(Agric.) To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.
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.
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To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip. [Obs.]
When first they stripped the Malean promontory.
--Chapman.Before he reached it he was out of breath, And then the other stripped him.
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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.
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(Mach.)
To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped.
To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped.
To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
(Carding) To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into ``hands''; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
Stripping \Strip"ping\, n.
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The act of one who strips.
The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive.
--H. Spencer.Never were cows that required such stripping.
--Mrs. Gaskell. pl. The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking.
Wiktionary
n. The act of one who strips. vb. (present participle of strip English)
WordNet
n. a relatively long narrow piece of something; "he felt a flat strip of muscle"
artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material [syn: slip]
an airfield without normal airport facilities [syn: airstrip, flight strip, landing strip]
a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book [syn: comic strip, cartoon strip]
thin piece of wood or metal
a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music; "she did a strip right in front of everyone" [syn: striptease, strip show]
v. take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets" [syn: deprive, divest]
get undressed; "please don't undress in front of everybody!"; "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living" [syn: undress, discase, uncase, unclothe, strip down, disrobe, peel] [ant: dress, dress]
remove the surface from; "strip wood"
remove substances from by a percolating liquid; "leach the soil" [syn: leach]
steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn: plunder, despoil, loot, reave, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray]
remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely; "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm" [syn: clean]
strip the cured leaves from; "strip tobacco"
remove the thread (of screws)
remove a constituent from a liquid
take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper" [syn: dismantle]
draw the last milk (of cows)
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" [syn: undress, divest, disinvest]
n. the removal of covering [syn: denudation, uncovering, baring, husking]
See strip
Wikipedia
Stripping is a dying trade in which film negatives for printed pages are arranged to create printing plates. Negatives may be set up in a pattern to allow a printing press to print 4, 8, 16 or 32 pages at a time, front and back, which are then folded to produce a brochure or book with the correct pagination (see figure)or a variety of smaller printed products of various sizes may be arranged on a single larger press sheet to be cut down after printing into individual job components, such as business or post cards, folding boxes or hang tags.
Stripping is a physical separation process where one or more components are removed from a liquid stream by a vapor stream. In industrial applications the liquid and vapor streams can have co-current or countercurrent flows. Stripping is usually carried out in either a packed or trayed column.
Stripping is the act of removing the protective polymer coating around optical fiber in preparation for fusion splicing. The splicing process begins by preparing both fiber ends for fusion, which requires that all protective coating is removed or stripped from the ends of each fiber. Fiber optical stripping can be done using a special stripping and preparation unit that uses hot sulphuric acid or a controlled flow of hot air to remove the coating. There are also mechanical tools used for stripping fiber which are similar to copper wire strippers. Fiber optical stripping and preparation equipment used in fusion splicing is commercially available through a small number of specialized companies, which usually also design machines used for fiber optical recoating.
Stripping (= bare argument ellipsis) is an ellipsis mechanism that elides everything from a clause except one constituent. It occurs exclusively in the non-initial conjuncts of coordinate structures. One prominent analysis of stripping sees it as a particular manifestation of the gapping mechanism, the difference between stripping and gapping lies merely with the number of remnants left behind by ellipsis: gapping leaves two (and sometimes more) constituents behind, whereas stripping leaves just one. Stripping occurs in many languages and is a frequent occurrence in colloquial conversation. As with many other ellipsis mechanisms, stripping challenges theories of syntax in part because the elided material often fails to qualify as a constituent in a straightforward manner.
Stripping is a 2002 Finnish comedy film directed by Saara Saarela. It was entered into the 24th Moscow International Film Festival.
Usage examples of "stripping".
I was now rather good at knot tying and suturing, by virtue of having forced my way into several operations, including three hernias, a couple of hemorrhoids, an appendectomy, and a vein stripping.
Stripping away the last of his clothing, he examined the appendectomy scar on his lower right side.
He buttoned her shirtwaist with his eyes closed, taking his time, stripping away the layers of her clothing in his mind and imagining the woman beneath.
She clambered down from the high bed, stripping off her overgown and undergown.
Deforestation, overgrazing, plowing, or other stripping of the vegetative cover lessens the possibility that rain will be slowed down and stopped so that it may seep into the soil, subsoil and the underground waterways.
Prudence sat by the house, stripping thorns from a heap of pandanus leaves beside her.
In its course the lightning traveled down the clothes, tearing them posteriorly, and completely stripping the patient.
He gave Quan the best furs, heading down to the water for a swim, stripping quickly outside the ring of light from the fire.
While she and the others were stripping to their undertunics and wrapping their hands and wrists, the Icefalcon again put on the soft jerkin of black-dyed wolf-hide he wore on patrol, marked with the white quatrefoil emblem of the Guards of Gae, and pulled on over it a heavier vest, and his gloves.
Moira and Ravi, who were behind her, also stripping, stuffing clothing into the recycler, stark naked.
They had done all the restoration work themselves, moving beams and bathrooms, stripping woodwork, rewiring, retiling, resurfacing.
I interpret it, occurs in the soliloquy he utters outside the banqueting hall at Inverness, which gives a paradigm in little of his general movement in the play from intense psychic activity in anticipation of an action to the stripping away and narrowing down that every action entails as it creates its own devouring vortex.
Clare felt suddenly vulnerable, as if his touch was stripping away her common sense and exposing unadmitted longings.
For example, there was little inclination to bring decks to a very high pitch of cleanliness when it was known that they would soon be desecrated by dockyard maties in hob-nailed boots, stripping and unrigging the barky and laying her up in ordinary: this and a thousand other things led to short answers, ill-will, and sullen looks, though to no deliberate insolence or failure to obey orders - not even the first smell of mutiny.
Then she spun back to the warehouseman, tugging the nireline ring from her finger and stripping the heavy chased bracelet from her arm.