Strip



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• v.剥去; n.狭长的一片
• ［英］ v.剥去; n.狭长的一片 ( a long narrow piece)
• ［类］ 反义词: bedeck ( 装饰)
• ［例］ a strip show ( 脱衣舞)

Webster Collegiate

I. verb (stripped; also stript; stripping)

• Etymology: Middle English strepen, strippen, from Old English -strīepan; akin to Old High German stroufen to strip
• Date: 13th century
• transitive verb
  • 1.
    • a. to remove clothing, covering, or surface matter from
    • b. to deprive of possessions
    • c. to divest of honors, privileges, or functions
  • 2.
    • a. to remove extraneous or superficial matter from <a prose style stripped to the bones>
    • b. to remove furniture, equipment, or accessories from <strip a ship for action>
  • 3. to make bare or clear (as by cutting or grazing)
  • 4. to finish a milking of by pressing the last available milk from the teats <strip a cow>
  • 5.
    • a. to remove cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco)
    • b. to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves)
  • 6. to tear or damage the thread of (a separable part or fitting)
  • 7. to separate (components) from a mixture or solution
  • 8. to press eggs or milt out of (a fish)
  • 9. to remove (a subcutaneous vein) by means of a surgical instrument <stripping a varicose saphenous vein>
• intransitive verb
  • 1.
    • a. to take off clothes
    • b. to perform a striptease
  • 2. peel 1
• ? strippable adjective

II. noun

• Etymology: probably alteration of ［sup］3［/sup］stripe
• Date: 1548
• 1.
  • a. a long narrow piece of a material
  • b. a long narrow area of land or water
• 2. airstrip
• 3. a commercially developed area especially along a highway
• 4. comic strip
• 5. striptease

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