Stripe vs. Strip

A long narrow band distinguished, as by color or texture, from the surrounding material or surface.

To remove clothing or covering from

A textile pattern of parallel bands or lines on a contrasting background.

To remove or take off (clothing or covering)

A fabric having such a pattern.

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

A strip of cloth or braid worn on a uniform to indicate rank, awards received, or length of service; a chevron.

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

Sort; kind

To clear of a natural covering or growth; make bare

A stroke or blow, as with a whip.

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

To mark with stripes or a stripe.

To rob of wealth or property; plunder or despoil

A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.

To remove equipment, furnishings, or accessories from

A long, relatively straight region against a different coloured background.

To remove nonessential detail from; reduce to essentials

(in the plural) The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.

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

(informal) Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.

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

A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow with a whip or stick.

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

A slash cut into the flesh as a punishment.

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

(weaving) A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.

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

Any of the balls marked with stripes in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the spots.

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

(computing) A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy.

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

The start/finish line.

To undress completely.

(transitive) To mark with stripes.

To perform a striptease.

(transitive) To lash with a whip or strap.

To fall away or be removed; peel

To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.

To cut or tear into strips.

A line, or long, narrow division of anything of a different color or structure from the ground; hence, any linear variation of color or structure; as, a stripe, or streak, of red on a green ground; a raised stripe.

A striptease.

A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colors, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.

A long narrow piece, usually of uniform width

A strip, or long, narrow piece attached to something of a different color; as, a red or blue stripe sewed upon a garment.

A long narrow region of land or body of water.

A stroke or blow made with a whip, rod, scourge, or the like, such as usually leaves a mark.

A comic strip.

A long, narrow discoloration of the skin made by the blow of a lash, rod, or the like.

An airstrip.

Color indicating a party or faction; hence, distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort; as, persons of the same political stripe.

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

The chevron on the coat of a noncommissioned officer.

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

To make stripes upon; to form with lines of different colors or textures; to variegate with stripes.

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

To strike; to lash.

A comic strip.

A strip or stripe of a contrasting color or material

A landing strip.

A piece of braid, usually on the sleeve, indicating military rank or length of service

A strip steak.

V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service;

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

A kind or category;

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

A marking of a different color or texture from the background

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

Mark with stripes

(mining) A trough for washing ore.

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

(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.

(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.

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

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

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

To take off clothing.

(intransitive) To perform a striptease.

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

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

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

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

(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;