Rip vs. Strip

Rip vs. Strip — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Rip and Strip

Ripnoun

A tear (in paper, etc.).

Stripnoun

Long, thin piece of land, or of any material.

You use strips of paper in papier mache.He welded together some pieces of strip.

Ripnoun

A type of tide or current.

Stripnoun

A comic strip.

Ripnoun

(Australia) A strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves.

Stripnoun

A landing strip.

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Ripnoun

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

Stripnoun

A strip steak.

Ripnoun

(slang) A hit (dose) of marijuana.

Stripnoun

A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.

Ripnoun

A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.

Stripnoun

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

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Ripnoun

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

Stripnoun

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

Ripnoun

A wicker basket for fish.

Stripnoun

Striptease.

Ripnoun

A worthless horse; a nag.

Stripnoun

(mining) A trough for washing ore.

Ripnoun

An immoral man; a rake, a scoundrel.

Stripnoun

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

Ripverb

(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 rip a garment; to rip up a floor

Stripverb

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

Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.

Ripverb

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

My shirt ripped when it was caught on a bramble.

Stripverb

To take off clothing.

Ripverb

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

Stripverb

(intransitive) To perform a striptease.

Ripverb

To move quickly and destructively.

Stripverb

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

Ripverb

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

Stripverb

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

Ripverb

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

Stripverb

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

The thread is stripped.The screw is stripped.

Ripverb

To take a "hit" of marijuana.

Stripverb

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

Ripverb

(slang) To fart.

Stripverb

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

Ripverb

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

Stripverb

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

Ripverb

To steal; to rip off.

Stripverb

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

Ripverb

To move or act fast, to rush headlong.

Stripverb

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

Ripverb

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

Stripverb

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.

Ripverb

To surf extremely well.

Stripverb

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

Ripnoun

a dissolute man in fashionable society

Stripverb

To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.

Ripnoun

an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart;

there was a rip in his pantsshe had snags in her stockings

Stripverb

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

Ripnoun

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

Stripverb

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

Ripnoun

the act of rending or ripping or splitting something;

he gave the envelope a vigorous rip

Stripverb

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

Ripverb

tear or be torn violently;

The curtain ripped from top to bottompull the cooked chicken into strips

Stripverb

To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

Ripverb

move precipitously or violently;

The tornado ripped along the coast

Stripadjective

Involving the removal of clothes.

Ripverb

cut (wood) along the grain

Stripnoun

a relatively long narrow piece of something;

he felt a flat strip of muscle

Ripverb

criticize or abuse strongly and violently;

The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly

Stripnoun

artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material

Stripnoun

an airfield without normal airport facilities

Stripnoun

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

Stripnoun

thin piece of wood or metal

Stripnoun

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

she did a strip right in front of everyone

Stripverb

take away possessions from someone;

The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets

Stripverb

get undressed;

please don't undress in front of everybody!She strips in front of strangers every night for a living

Stripverb

remove the surface from;

strip wood

Stripverb

remove substances from by a percolating liquid;

leach the soil

Stripverb

lay bare;

denude a forest

Stripverb

steal goods; take as spoils;

During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners

Stripverb

remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely;

The boys cleaned the sandwich plattersThe trees were cleaned of apples by the storm

Stripverb

strip the cured leaves from;

strip tobacco

Stripverb

remove the thread (of screws)

Stripverb

remove a constituent from a liquid

Stripverb

take off or remove;

strip a wall of its wallpaper

Stripverb

draw the last milk (of cows)

Stripverb

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

The nurse quickly undressed the accident victimShe divested herself of her outdoor clothesHe disinvested himself of his garments