Strip vs. Strap

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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.”

  • Strip (noun)

    A comic strip.

  • Strip (noun)

    A landing strip.

  • Strip (noun)

    A strip steak.

  • Strip (noun)

    A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.

  • Strip (noun)

    The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.

  • Strip (noun)

    (UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.

  • Strip (noun)

    Striptease.

  • Strip (noun)

    A trough for washing ore.

  • Strip (noun)

    The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.

  • Strip (verb)

    To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.

    “Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.”

  • Strip (verb)

    To take off clothing.

  • Strip (verb)

    To perform a striptease.

  • Strip (verb)

    To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.

  • Strip (verb)

    To remove cargo from (a container).

  • Strip (verb)

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

    “The thread is stripped.”

    “The screw is stripped.”

  • Strip (verb)

    To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.

  • Strip (verb)

    To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.

  • Strip (verb)

    To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze.)

  • Strip (verb)

    To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).

  • Strip (verb)

    To stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.

  • 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.

  • Strip (verb)

    To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.

  • Strip (verb)

    To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.

  • Strip (verb)

    To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.

  • Strip (verb)

    To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.

  • Strip (verb)

    To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into “hands”.

  • Strip (verb)

    To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

  • Strip (adjective)

    Involving the removal of clothes.

  • Strap (noun)

    A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.

  • Strap (noun)

    A strip of thick leather used in flogging.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Strap (noun)

    A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.

  • Strap (noun)

    A strap worn on the shoulder.

  • Strap (noun)

    A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.

  • Strap (noun)

    The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.

  • Strap (noun)

    The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.

  • Strap (noun)

    A gun, normally a personal firearm such as a pistol or machine pistol.

  • Strap (noun)

    Credit offered to a customer, especially for alcoholic drink.

  • Strap (noun)

    A strap-on.

  • Strap (verb)

    To beat or chastise with a strap; to whip, to lash.

  • Strap (verb)

    To fasten or bind with a strap.

  • Strap (verb)

    To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop

    “to strap a razor”

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