Sack vs Strip - What's the difference?
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A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee; or, a bag with handles used at a supermarket, a grocery sack; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel.
The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity type and according to local usage; an old English measure of weight, usually of wool, equal to 13 stone (182 pounds), or in other sources, 26 stone (364 pounds).
* The American sack''' of salt is 215 pounds; the '''sack of wheat, two bushels. — McElrath.
* 1843 , The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge , Vol. 27,
* 1882 , , A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4,
(uncountable) The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
(uncountable) Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
(American football) A successful tackle of the quarterback. See verb sense3 below .
(baseball) One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.
(informal) Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position, usually as give (someone) the sack' or '''get the sack . ''See verb sense4 below.
(colloquial, US) Bed; usually as hit the sack' or '''in the sack'''. ''See also'' ' sack out .
(dated) (also sacque ) A kind of loose-fitting gown or dress with sleeves which hangs from the shoulders, such as a gown with a , fashionable in the late 17th to 18th century; or, formerly, a loose-fitting hip-length jacket, cloak or cape.
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(dated) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
(vulgar, slang) The scrotum.
To put in a sack or sacks.
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To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
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(American football) To tackle, usually to tackle the offensive quarterback behind the line of scrimmage before he is able to throw a pass.
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(informal) To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
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(colloquial) In the phrase sack out', to fall asleep. ''See also'' ' hit the sack .
(dated) A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine from southern Europe; sherry.
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(countable, uncountable) Material in long, thin pieces.
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A landing strip.
A strip steak.
A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
(fencing) The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
(UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
Striptease.
(mining) A trough for washing ore.
The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
To remove or take away.
(usually) To take off clothing.
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To perform a striptease.
To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
* Bible, Genesis xxxvii. 23
* Macaulay
* The robbers stripped Norm of everything he owned.
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
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To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear.
To remove the thread or teeth from (a screw, nut, or gear).
To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
(bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze.)
To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
(television) 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.
(agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
(obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
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To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
To remove fibre, 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).
Sack is a related term of strip.
As nouns the difference between sack and strip
is that sack is sack; a bag while strip is (countable|uncountable) material in long, thin pieces.As a verb strip is
to remove or take away.sack
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . (Sense evolution) * “Pillage” senses from the use of sacks in carrying off plunder. From (etyl) . ''See also ransack. American football “tackle” sense from this “plunder, conquer” root. * “Removal from employment” senses attested since 1825; the original formula was “to give (someone) the sack”, likely from the notion of a worker going off with his tools in a sack, or being given such a sack for his personal belongings as part of an expedient severance. Idiom exists earlier in (etyl) (on luy a donné son sac'', 17c.) and (etyl) (iemand den zak geven). English verb in this sense recorded from 1841. Current verb, ''to sack (“to fire”) carries influence from the forceful nature of “plunder, tackle” verb senses. * Slang meaning “bunk, bed” is attested since 1825, originally nautical, likely in reference to sleeping bags. The verb meaning “go to bed” is recorded from 1946.Noun
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- Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. [...] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
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- Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stone.
- The sack of Rome.
- He twisted his ankle sliding into the sack at second.
- The boss is gonna give her the sack today.
- He got the sack for being late all the time.
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- Molly, therefore, having dressed herself out in this sack , with a new laced cap, and some other ornaments which Tom had given her, repairs to church with her fan in her hand the very next Sunday.
- He got passed the ball, but it hit him in the sack .
Synonyms
* (bag) bag, tote, poke (obsolete) * the axe]], pink slip, the boot, the chop, the elbow, one's cards, [[give somebody the heave-ho, the old heave-ho * hay, rack * ballsack, ball sack, nutsackHyponyms
* (bag) bindleDerived terms
* * ballsack, ball sack * bivouac sack * cat in the sack * dub sack * get the sack, give the sack * gunny sack, gunnysack * hacky sack, hackysack * Hacky-Sack, hackeysack, * hit the sack * in the sack * nutsack * sackcloth * sack race * sackful * sacking (n. ) * sad sackVerb
(en verb)- Help me sack the groceries.
- The gold was sacked in moose-hide bags, fifty pounds to the bag
- The barbarians sacked Rome.
- It [a lyre] was part of the spoils which he had taken when he sacked the city of Eetion
Sack-happy defensive line stuns Dolphins", SFGate.com, November 21,
- On third down, the rejuvenated Rickey Jackson stormed in over All-Pro left tackle Richmond Webb to sack Marino yet again for a 2-yard loss.
- He was sacked last September.
Russian media mogul dismisses Yeltsin's bid to sack him", CNN.com, March 5,
- The kids all sacked out before 9:00 on New Year’s Eve.
Synonyms
* loot, ransack * (to remove someone from a job) can, dismiss, fire, lay off, let go, terminate, make redundant, give the axe, give the boot, give (someone) their cards, give the chop]], give the elbow, give the old heave-ho, See also : [[Wikisaurus:lay off * rackDerived terms
* sackable * sacker * sack outEtymology 2
From earlier (wyne)Noun
(en noun)- Will't please your lordship drink a cup of sack'? ...I ne'er drank ' sack in my life...
- Thou art so fat-witted, with drinking of old sack'...let a cup of '''sack''' be my poison...Wherein is he good, but to taste ' sack and drink it?
- How didst thou 'scape? How cam'st thou hither? swear / by this bottle how thou cam'st hither—I escaped upon / a butt of sack , which the sailors heaved overboard, by / this bottle! [...]
Derived terms
* sack-wheyEtymology 3
See also
* (wikipedia "sack") *Anagrams
* *strip
English
Etymology 1
From alteration ofNoun
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.}}
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Derived terms
* bimetal strip * clip strip * comic strip * electronic strip * landing strip * * nature strip * rubbing strip * strip cartoon * strip mallEtymology 2
From (etyl)Verb
- Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.
- They stripped Joseph out of his coat.
- opinions which no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown
- He was obliged to sell his silver piece by piece; next he sold the drawing-room furniture. All the rooms were stripped ; but the bedroom, her own room, remained as before.
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- After the confession, the lawsuits. Lance Armstrong's extended appearance on the Oprah Winfrey network, in which the man stripped of seven Tour de France wins finally admitted to doping, has opened him up to several multi-million dollar legal challenges.
- The thread is stripped .
- The screw is stripped .
- when first they stripped the Malean promontory
- Before he reached it he was out of breath, / And then the other stripped him.