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Strap
A strap, sometimes also called strop, is an elongated flap or ribbon, usually of fabric or leather.
Thin straps are used as part of clothing or baggage, or bedding such as a sleeping bag. See for example spaghetti strap, shoulder strap. A strap differs from a belt mainly in that a strap is usually integral to the item of clothing; either can be used in combination with buckles.
Straps are also used as fasteners to attach and bind items, to objects, animals (for example a saddle on a horse) and people (for example a watch on a wrist), or even to tie down people and animals, as on an apparatus for corporal punishment. Occasionally a strap is specified after what it binds or holds, e.g. chin strap. Webbing is a particular type of strap that is a strong fabric woven as a flat strip or tube that is also often used in place of rope. Modern webbing is typically made from exceptionally high-strength material, and is used in automobile seat belts, furniture manufacturing, transportation, towing, military apparel, cargo fasteners, and many other fields.
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Strip (noun)
Long, thin piece of land, or of any material.
“You use strips of paper in papier mache.”
“He welded together some pieces of strip.”
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Strip (noun)
A comic strip.
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Strip (noun)
A landing strip.
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Strip (noun)
A strip steak.
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Strip (noun)
A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
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Strip (noun)
The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
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Strip (noun)
(UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
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Strip (noun)
Striptease.
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Strip (noun)
A trough for washing ore.
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Strip (noun)
The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
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Strip (verb)
To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
“Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.”
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Strip (verb)
To take off clothing.
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Strip (verb)
To perform a striptease.
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Strip (verb)
To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
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Strip (verb)
To remove cargo from (a container).
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Strip (verb)
To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear.
“The thread is stripped.”
“The screw is stripped.”
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Strip (verb)
To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
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Strip (verb)
To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
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Strip (verb)
To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze.)
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Strip (verb)
To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
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Strip (verb)
To stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
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Strip (verb)
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.
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Strip (verb)
To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
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Strip (verb)
To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
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Strip (verb)
To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
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Strip (verb)
To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
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Strip (verb)
To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into “hands”.
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Strip (verb)
To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
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Strip (adjective)
Involving the removal of clothes.
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Strap (noun)
A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
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Strap (noun)
A strip of thick leather used in flogging.
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Strap (noun)
Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use.
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Strap (noun)
A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge of a razor; a strop.
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Strap (noun)
A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.
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Strap (noun)
A strap worn on the shoulder.
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Strap (noun)
A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
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Strap (noun)
The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
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Strap (noun)
The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
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Strap (noun)
A gun, normally a personal firearm such as a pistol or machine pistol.
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Strap (noun)
Credit offered to a customer, especially for alcoholic drink.
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Strap (noun)
A strap-on.
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Strap (verb)
To beat or chastise with a strap; to whip, to lash.
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Strap (verb)
To fasten or bind with a strap.
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Strap (verb)
To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop
“to strap a razor”