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Strip vs Stroke - What's the difference?

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Strip is a related term of stroke.


In lang=en terms the difference between strip and stroke

is that strip is to milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk while stroke is to row the stroke oar of.

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between strip and stroke

is that strip is (obsolete) to pass; to get clear of; to outstrip while stroke is (obsolete) appetite.

As nouns the difference between strip and stroke

is that strip is (countable|uncountable) material in long, thin pieces while stroke is an act of.

As verbs the difference between strip and stroke

is that strip is to remove or take away while stroke is to move one's hand or an object (such as a broom) along (a surface) in one direction.

strip

English

Etymology 1

From alteration of

Noun

  • (countable, uncountable) Material in long, thin pieces.
  • * , chapter=19
  • , title= 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.}}
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , date = 21 August 2012 , first = Ed , last = Pilkington , title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die? , newspaper = The Guardian , url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/21/death-penalty-trial-reggie-clemons?newsfeed=true , page = , 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
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=April 23 , author=Angelique Chrisafis , title=François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election , work=the Guardian 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 , Paul Harris, ''Lance Armstrong faces multi-million dollar legal challenges after confession'' (in
    The Guardian
    , 19 January 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/jan/19/lance-armstrong-legal-challenges-confession]
    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
    Derived terms
    * strip away * strip down * strip off * striptease * stripped down * stripper
    References
    * OED 2nd edition 1989 * Funk&Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary

    Anagrams

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    stroke

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (wikipedia stroke) (en noun)
  • An act of (gloss, moving one's hand over a surface).
  • A blow or hit.
  • * Bible, Deuteronomy xix. 5
  • His hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • He entered and won the whole kingdom of Naples without striking a stroke .
  • A single movement with a tool.
  • # (golf) A single act of striking at the ball with a club.
  • # (tennis) The hitting of a ball with a racket, or the movement of the racket and arm that produces that impact.
  • # (rowing) The movement of an oar or paddle through water, either the pull which actually propels the vessel or a single entire cycle of movement including the pull.
  • # (cricket) The action of hitting the ball with the bat; a shot.
  • # A thrust of a piston.
  • One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished.
  • the stroke of a bird's wing in flying, or of an oar in rowing
    the stroke of a skater, swimmer, etc.
  • A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort.
  • a stroke''' of genius; a '''stroke''' of business; a master '''stroke of policy
  • A line drawn with a pen or other writing implement.
  • # (hence, British) The symbol .
  • # (linguistics) A line of a Chinese, Japanese or Korean character.
  • The time when a clock strikes.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 9, author=John Percy, work=the Telegraph
  • , title= Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2-3 on agg): match report , passage=Already guarding a 1-0 lead from the first leg, Blackpool inched further ahead when Stephen Dobbie scored from an acute angle on the stroke of half-time. The game appeared to be completely beyond Birmingham’s reach three minutes into the second period when Matt Phillips reacted quickly to bundle the ball past Colin Doyle and off a post.}}
  • (swimming) A style, a single movement within a style.
  • * , chapter=7
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.}}
  • (medicine) The loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted.
  • (obsolete) A sudden attack of any disease, especially when fatal; any sudden, severe affliction or calamity.
  • a stroke''' of apoplexy; the '''stroke of death
  • * Harte
  • At this one stroke the man looked dead in law.
  • (rowing) The rower who is nearest the stern of the boat.
  • (rowing) The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided.
  • (professional wrestling) Backstage influence.
  • (squash) A point awarded to a player in case of interference or obstruction by the opponent.
  • (sciences) An individual discharge of lightning.
  • A flash of lightning may be made up of several strokes . If they are separated by enough time for the eye to distinguish them, the lightning will appear to flicker.
  • (obsolete) The result or effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.
  • * Bible, Isa. xxx. 26
  • in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound
  • An addition or amendment to a written composition; a touch.
  • to give some finishing strokes to an essay
    (Addison)
  • A throb or beat, as of the heart.
  • (Tennyson)
  • (obsolete) Power; influence.
  • * Robynson (More's Utopia)
  • where money beareth all the stroke
  • * Dryden
  • He has a great stroke with the reader.
  • (obsolete) appetite
  • (Jonathan Swift)
    Synonyms
    * caress * (blow) blow, hit, beat ** (act of striking with a weapon) blow * (single movement with a tool) ** (in golf) ** (in tennis) ** (in rowing) ** (in cricket) shot ** (thrust of a piston) push, thrust * (made with a pen) stroke of the pen ** (made with a brush) brushstroke ** (symbol) forward slash (in computing), shilling sign (qualifier), slant, slash (especially in computing), solidus, virgule * (time when a clock strikes) hour * (particular style of swimming) * (in medical sense) cerebrovascular accident, CVA * (in wrestling)
    Derived terms
    * at a stroke * at one stroke * backstroke * breaststroke * broad strokes * brushstroke * butterfly stroke * different strokes for different folks * down to the short strokes * four-stroke engine * government stroke * keystroke * masterstroke * multistroke * short strokes * stroke of genius * stroke of luck * stroke of work * stroke order * two-stroke engine * umstroke

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) stroken, straken, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (strok)
  • To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom) along (a surface) in one direction.
  • * Dryden
  • He dried the falling drops, and, yet more kind, / He stroked her cheeks.
  • (cricket) To hit the ball with the bat in a flowing motion.
  • (masonry) To give a finely fluted surface to.
  • To row the stroke oar of.
  • to stroke a boat

    See also

    * (pedialite)

    Anagrams

    * * ----