Sector vs Strip - What's the difference?
sector | strip |
section
zone (designated area).
(geometry) part of a circle, extending to the center
(computing) fixed-sized unit (traditionally 512 bytes) of sequential data stored on a track of a digital medium (compare to block)
(military) an area designated by boundaries within which a unit operates, and for which it is responsible
(military) one of the subdivisions of a coastal frontier
(science fiction) a fictional region of space designated for navigational or governance purposes; for instance, ,
(calculation) an instrument consisting of two rulers of equal length joined by a hinge
a field of economic activity
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, title= (countable, uncountable) Material in long, thin pieces.
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, title= A comic strip.
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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, title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?
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, passage = The prosecution case was that the men forced the sisters to strip , threw their clothes over the bridge, then raped them and participated in forcing them to jump into the river to their deaths. As he walked off the bridge, Clemons was alleged to have said: "We threw them off. Let's go."}}
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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, date=April 23
, author=Angelique Chrisafis
, title=François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election
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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.
* Chapman
* 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).
As nouns the difference between sector and strip
is that sector is section while strip is (countable|uncountable) material in long, thin pieces.As a verb strip is
to remove or take away.sector
English
(wikipedia sector)Noun
(en noun)W
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}
Derived terms
* subsector * boot sector * private sector * public sector * state sectorSee also
* area of influence * boot block * zone of actionAnagrams
* * * * * * * ----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.}}
- (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.
citation, page= , passage=The lawyer and twice-divorced mother of three had presented herself as the modern face of her party, trying to strip' it of unsavoury overtones after her father's convictions for saying the Nazi occupation of France was not "particularly inhumane".}}
- '2013
- 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.