Rip vs. Strip: What's the Difference?

A stretch of water in a river, estuary, or tidal channel made rough by waves meeting an opposing current.

To remove clothing or covering from

A rip current.

To remove or take off (clothing or covering)

A dissolute person.

To remove an exterior coating, as of paint or varnish, from

An old or worthless horse.

To remove the leaves from the stalks of (tobacco, for example).

A tear (in paper, etc.).

To clear of a natural covering or growth; make bare

A type of strong, rough tide or current.

To deprive of possessions, office, rank, privileges, or honors; divest

(Australia, New Zealand) A rip current: a strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves.

To rob of wealth or property; plunder or despoil

(slang) A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.

To remove equipment, furnishings, or accessories from

(slang) A hit (dose) of marijuana.

To remove nonessential detail from; reduce to essentials

A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.

To dismantle (a firearm, for example) piece by piece.

(slang) Something unfairly expensive, a rip-off.

To damage or break the threads of (a screw, for example) or the teeth of (a gear).

Data or audio copied from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.

To draw and discard the first drops of milk from the udder of (a cow or goat, for example) at the start of milking.

Something ripped off or stolen; a work resulting from plagiarism.

To draw the last drops of milk from the udder of (a cow or goat, for example) at the end of milking.

A kind of glissando leading up to the main note to be played.

To extract the milt or roe from (a live fish).

Ellipsis of ripsaw.

To draw in (a fishing line) by hand, as between casts with a fly rod.

A joyride.

To mount (a photographic positive or negative) on paper to be used in making a printing plate.

A wicker basket for fish.

To undress completely.

A worthless horse; a nag.

To perform a striptease.

An immoral man; a rake, a scoundrel.

To fall away or be removed; peel

(transitive) To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy, such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence.

To cut or tear into strips.

(intransitive) To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.

A striptease.

(transitive) To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.

A long narrow piece, usually of uniform width

To move quickly and destructively.

A long narrow region of land or body of water.

(woodworking) To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain.

A comic strip.

To copy data from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc., to a hard drive, portable device, etc.

An airstrip.

To take a "hit" of marijuana.

An area, as along a busy street or highway, that is lined with a great number and variety of commercial establishments.

(slang) To fart.

(countable) A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.

To mock or criticize (someone or something). (often used with on and into)

A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.

To steal; to rip off.

A comic strip.

To move or act fast; to rush headlong.

A landing strip.

(archaic) To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; usually with up.

A strip steak.

To surf extremely well.

(US) A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.

A wicker fish basket.

(fencing) The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.

A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration.

The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.

A term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse.

(mining) A trough for washing ore.

A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents.

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

To divide or separate the parts of, by cutting or tearing; to tear or cut open or off; to tear off or out by violence; as, to rip a garment by cutting the stitches; to rip off the skin of a beast; to rip up a floor; - commonly used with up, open, off.

(television) A television series aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.

To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing.

(finance) An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one call and two put options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bearish than a straddle.

To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; - usually with up.

The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.

To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber.

Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.

A dissolute man in fashionable society

(transitive) To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.

An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart;

To take off clothing.

A stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current

(intransitive) To perform a striptease.

The act of rending or ripping or splitting something;

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

Tear or be torn violently;

(transitive) To remove cargo from (a container).

Move precipitously or violently;

(transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.

Cut (wood) along the grain

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

Criticize or abuse strongly and violently;

(transitive) To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.

(intransitive) To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.

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

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

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

(transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.

To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.

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.

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

(transitive) To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).

To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.

To remove the insulation from a wire/cable.

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

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

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

To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes; to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark.

To divest of clothing; to uncover.

To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.

To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.

To deprive of all milk; to milk dry; to draw the last milk from; hence, to milk with a peculiar movement of the hand on the teats at the last of a milking; as, to strip a cow.

To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.

To pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back; to strip away all disguisses.

To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped.

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

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

To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress.

A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land.

A trough for washing ore.

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

A relatively long narrow piece of something;

Artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material

An airfield without normal airport facilities

A sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book

Thin piece of wood or metal

A form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music;

Take away possessions from someone;

Get undressed;

Remove the surface from;

Remove substances from by a percolating liquid;

Lay bare;

Steal goods; take as spoils;

Remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely;

Strip the cured leaves from;

Remove the thread (of screws)

Remove a constituent from a liquid

Take off or remove;

Draw the last milk (of cows)

Remove (someone's or one's own) clothes;