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Stripe vs Strip - What's the difference?

stripe | strip |

In transitive terms the difference between stripe and strip

is that stripe is to mark with stripes while strip is to milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.

stripe

English

(wikipedia stripe)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A long, straight region of a single colour.
  • (in the plural) The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
  • (informal) Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.
  • persons of the same political stripe
  • A long narrow mark left by striking with a lash or rod; by extension, such a stroke.
  • * Bible, Deuteronomy xxv. 3
  • Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed.
  • * Thomson
  • Cruelty marked him with inglorious stripes .
  • * 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
  • Thou most lying slave, / Whom stripes may move, not kindness!
  • (weaving) A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
  • Derived terms

    * of the same stripe * show one's true stripes * true stripes

    Verb

    (strip)
  • To mark with stripes.
  • (computing) To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.
  • Anagrams

    * * * * *

    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

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