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