Scalp vs Strip - What's the difference?
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The top of the head; the skull.
The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
* 2014 , Kaitlin Newman in Baltimore Sun'', ''
*:The original titanium mesh plate that was inserted in the summer of 2010 was removed last June since it was causing his scalp to break down.
* c. 1590 , (William Shakespeare), The Two Gentlemen of Verona
A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by Native American warriors as a token of victory.
A victory.
* 1993 , John Frohnmayer, Leaving Town Alive: Confessions of an Arts Warrior (page 331)
(Scotland) A bed or stratum of shellfish; a scaup.
(figurative) The top; the summit.
To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
(slang) To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.
To screen or sieve ore before further processing
(surgery) To remove the skin of.
* J. S. Wells
(milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.
(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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* Beaumont and Fletcher
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).
Scalp is a related term of strip.
As nouns the difference between scalp and strip
is that scalp is the top of the head; the skull while strip is (countable|uncountable) material in long, thin pieces.As verbs the difference between scalp and strip
is that scalp is to remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident while strip is to remove or take away.scalp
English
(wikipedia scalp)Noun
(en noun)Five years after beating, Ryan Diviney’s family holds out hope
- By the bare scalpe of Robin Hoods fat Fryer, / This fellow were a King, for our wilde faction.
- Some tribes used to collect scalps to prove how many of the enemy they had killed in battle.
- Pat Buchanan, in his ongoing presidential quest, claimed his first scalp , and Donald Wildmon's newsletter chortled that his efforts in opposing the NEA had paid off.
- (Macaulay)
Derived terms
* scalpless * scalpyVerb
(en verb)- scalped ore
- We must scalp the whole lid [of the eye].
- (Knight)
Anagrams
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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.}}
- (Farrow)
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.