Strip vs Ring - What's the difference?

Strip is a related term of ring.

As nouns the difference between strip and ring

is that strip is (countable|uncountable) material in long, thin pieces while ring is ring (a place where some sports take place; as, a boxing ring) .

As a verb strip

is to remove or take away.

strip

English

Etymology 1

From alteration of

Noun

(countable, uncountable) Material in long, thin pieces.

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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.

(Farrow)

Derived terms

* bimetal strip * clip strip * comic strip * electronic strip * landing strip * * nature strip * rubbing strip * strip cartoon * strip mall

Etymology 2

From (etyl)

Verb

To remove or take away.

Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.

(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

They stripped Joseph out of his coat.

* Macaulay

opinions which no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown

* The robbers stripped Norm of everything he owned.

* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

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.

To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear.

The thread is stripped .

To remove the thread or teeth from (a screw, nut, or gear).

The screw is stripped .

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

when first they stripped the Malean promontory

* Beaumont and Fletcher

Before he reached it he was out of breath, / And then the other stripped him.

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).

Synonyms

* deprive * peel * uncover

Quotations

* (English Citations of "strip")

Derived terms

* strip away * strip down * strip off * striptease * stripped down * stripper

References

* OED 2nd edition 1989 * Funk&Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary

External links

* (wikipedia "strip") *

Anagrams

* ----

ring

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), also (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), . More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)

(label) A solid object in the shape of a circle.

# A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.

# A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

The dearest ring in Venice will I give you.

# (label) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.

# A burner on a kitchen stove.

# In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.

# An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.

# (label) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.

(label) A group of objects arranged in a circle.

# A circular group of people or objects.

#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

And hears the Muses in a ring / Aye round about Jove's altar sing.

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# (label) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet.

# (label) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as (Stonehenge).

A piece of food in the shape of a ring.

A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.

* (1672–1710)

Place me, O, place me in the dusty ring , / Where youthful charioteers contend for glory.

An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.

* (Edward Augustus Freeman) (1823-1892)

the ruling ring at Constantinople

(label) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.

(label) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a .

(label) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.

* 1866 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, page 168.

The ring is common in the Huntingdonshire accounts of Ramsey Abbey. It was equal to half a quarter, i.e., is identical with the coomb of the eastern counties. —

(label) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring ).

* 2007 , Steve Anson, Steve Bunting, Mastering Windows Network Forensics and Investigation (page 70)

Kernel Mode processes run in ring' 0, and User Mode processes run in ' ring 3.

(label) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.

Synonyms

* (circumscribing object) hoop, annulus, torus

Derived terms

* annual ring * benzene ring * boxing ring * brass ring * bull ring * calamari ring * chainring * circus ring * class ring * claw ring * coffee ring * D ring * diamond ring * division ring * earring * egg ring * engagement ring * enringed * finger ring * Fomalhaut dust ring * front ring * gas ring * growth ring * key ring/keyring * life ring * limbal ring * local ring * mancude-ring system * neck ring * nose ring * O-ring * oath ring * Olympic Rings * onion ring * pinky ring * piscatory ring * piston ring * planetary ring * prize ring * quotient ring * (w, Ring a Ring o' Roses) * ring-a-levio * ring armor * ring bark/ringbark/ring-bark * ring-billed * ring binder * ring dance * ring dove/ringdove * ring dropper * ring fence * ring finger/ringfinger * ring game * ringlike * ring mail/ringmail * ring of death * Ring of Fire * ring of steel * ring of truth * ring ouzel * ring parrot * ring plover * ring-porous * ring pull * ring rat * ring road * ring snake * ring spanner * ring species * ring spot * ring stand * ring system * ring-tailed * ring theory * ring thrush * ring toplogy * ringed * ringbearer * ringleader * ringlet * ringlike * ringneck * ring-neck(ed) * ringpiece * ringside * ring spot * ringstraked * ringtail * ring-tail(ed) * ringworm * rubber ring * run rings around * signet ring * seal ring * slip ring * smoke ring * snap ring * spy ring * star ring * synonym ring * teething ring * thumb ring * toe ring * token ring * tongue ring * tree ring * wedding ring

Verb

(en verb)

To surround or enclose.

The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.

(figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle.

They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year.

To attach a ring to, especially for identification.

Only ringed hogs may forage in the commons.

We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.

To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.

to ring a pig's snout

* Shakespeare

Ring these fingers.

(falconry) To rise in the air spirally.

* 1877 , (Gerard Manley Hopkins), :

.. how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing ..

Derived terms

* ringer

Etymology 2

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.

The church bell's ring could be heard the length of the valley.

The ring of hammer on anvil filled the air.

(figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.

The name has a nice ring to it.

(colloquial) A telephone call.

I’ll give you a ring when the plane lands.

Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.

* Francis Bacon

the ring of acclamations fresh in his ears

A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.

St Mary's has a ring of eight bells.

* Fuller

as great and tunable a ring of bells as any in the world

Derived terms

* give a ring * ringtone

Verb

Of a bell, to produce sound.

The bells were ringing in the town.

To make (a bell) produce sound.

The deliveryman rang the doorbell to drop off a parcel.

* Shakespeare

The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, / Hath rung night's yawning peal.

(figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.

Whose mobile phone is ringing ?

(figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.

That does not ring true.

(transitive, colloquial, British, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).

I will ring you when we arrive.

to resound, reverberate, echo.

* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4

So he spoke, and it seemed there was a little halting at first, as of men not liking to take Blackbeard's name in Blackbeard's place, or raise the Devil by mocking at him. But then some of the bolder shouted 'Blackbeard', and so the more timid chimed in, and in a minute there were a score of voices calling 'Blackbeard, Blackbeard', till the place rang again.

* 1919 , (Boris Sidis), :

It is instructive for us to learn as well as to ponder on the fact that "the very men who looked down with delight, when the sand of the arena reddened with human blood, made the arena ring with applause when Terence in his famous line: ‘Homo sum, Nihil humani alienum puto’ proclaimed the brotherhood of man."

To produce music with bells.

(Holder)

(dated) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.

Derived terms

* ring a bell * ring back * ringer * ringing * ring false * ring off * ring off the hook * ring out * ring someone's bell * ring true * ring up * unring

Etymology 3

A shortening of (etyl) ; coined by mathematician in 1892. (Reference: Harvey Cohn, Advanced Number Theory , page 49.)

Noun

(en noun)

(algebra) An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations, an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.

The set of integers, $\mathbb{Z}$ , is the prototypical ring .

(algebra) An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.

The definition of ring without unity allows, for instance, the set $2\mathbb{Z}$ of even integers to be a ring.

Hypernyms

* pseudo-ring * semiring

Hyponyms

* commutative ring ** integral domain *** unique factorization domain, Noetherian domain **** principal ideal domain ***** Euclidean domain ****** field

Derived terms

* Boolean ring * polynomial ring

Anagrams

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