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Stripe (noun)
A long, relatively straight region of a single colour.
“zebra stripes”
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Stripe (noun)
The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
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Stripe (noun)
Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.
“persons of the same political stripe”
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Stripe (noun)
A long narrow mark left by striking with a lash or rod; by extension, such a stroke.
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Stripe (noun)
A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
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Stripe (noun)
Any of the balls marked with stripes in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the spots.
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Stripe (verb)
To mark with stripes.
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Stripe (verb)
To lash with a whip or strap.
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Stripe (verb)
To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.
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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.