Definition: strip

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

strip
     adj : (of mines and mining) worked from the exposed surface;
           "opencast mining"; "an opencut iron mine"; "a strip
           mine" [syn: opencast, opencut, strip]
     n 1: a relatively long narrow piece of something; "he felt a flat
          strip of muscle"
     2: artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material [syn:
         slip]
     3: an airfield without normal airport facilities [syn: airstrip,
         flight strip, landing strip]
     4: a sequence of drawings in a newspaper telling a story [syn:
        comic strip, cartoon strip]
     5: thin piece of wood or metal
     6: a form of entertainment in which a dancer undresses to
        music; "she did a strip right in front of everyone" [syn:
        striptease]
     v 1: take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the
          Jews of all their assets" [syn: deprive, divest]
     2: get undressed; "please don't undress in front of everybody!"
        [syn: undress, discase, uncase, unclothe, strip
        down, disrobe] [ant: dress, dress]
     3: remove the surface from; "strip wood"
     4: remove substances from by a percolating liquid; "leach the
        soil" [syn: leach]
     5: lay bare; "denude a forest" [syn: denude, bare, denudate]
     6: 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]
     7: remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely;
        "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were
        cleaned of apples by the storm"; deprive wholly of money
        in a gambling game, robbery, etc.; "The other players
        cleaned him completely" [syn: clean]
     8: strip the cured leaves from; "strip tobacco"
     9: remove the thread (of screws)
     10: remove a constituent from a liquid; in chemistry
     11: take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper" [syn: dismantle]
     12: draw the last milk (of cows)
     13: remove someone's clothes; "The nurse quickly undressed the
         accident victim" [syn: undress]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

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;
      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.
                                                  --Macaulay.

   2. To divest of clothing; to uncover.

            Before the folk herself strippeth she. --Chaucer.

            Strip your sword stark naked.         --Shak.

   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.
                                                  --Chapman.

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

   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.               --Gilpin.

   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.