strip Значение & определение

Значение на strip на български

• 0 to remove, pull, or tear the covering or outer layer from something:

  • Because of the pollution, the trees are almost completely stripped of bark.

  • The paintwork was so bad that we decided to strip off all the paint and start again.

  • [ + adj ] During the summer months, the sheep strip the mountains bare.

• 1 to remove your clothing, or to remove all the clothing of someone else:

  • The men were ordered to strip.

  • UK Suddenly he stripped off and ran into the sea.

  • [ + adj ] He had been stripped naked, beaten and robbed.

  • She stripped to pay her way through college.

• 2 to remove parts of a machine, vehicle, or engine in order to clean or repair it:

  • I've decided to strip down my motorbike and rebuild it.

• 3 a long, flat, narrow piece:

  • a narrow strip of land

  • He didn't have a bandage, so he ripped up his shirt into thin strips.

  • Protect the magnetic strip on your credit card from scratches, heat, or other damage.

• 4 the clothing worn by a football team that has the team's colours on it:

  • The team will be wearing its new strip at next Saturday's match.

• 5 an entertainment in which the performer removes all his or her clothing:

  • He jumped up on the table and started to do a strip.

• 6 to remove, pull, or tear the covering or outer layer from something:

  • I have this cabinet that had about eight layers of paint on it, and I stripped it down to refinish it.

  • Canada wants to strip Luitjens, a retired University of British Columbia botany instructor, of his citizenship.

• 7 to remove your clothes, or to remove the clothes from someone else:

  • [ M ] It was so hot that we stripped off our shirts.

  • [ I ] We were told to strip to the waist (= remove our clothes above the waist).

  • [ I ] The nurse told me to strip down to my underwear (= remove all of my clothes except my underwear).

• 8 a long, flat, narrow piece:

  • a strip of land

  • He didn’t have a bandage, so he ripped up his shirt into thin strips.

  • To prolong the working life of your credit card, keep the magnetic strip protected from scratches, heat, and moisture.

• 9 the act of removing your clothes, esp. as an entertainment:

  • I jumped on the table and started to do a strip.

• 10 to remove the interest payments from a bond and sell them separately from the original bond:

  • Certain of these securities may have variable interest rates and others may be stripped.

• 11 to separate a machine or piece of equipment into separate parts in order to clean or repair it:

  • Apprentices are taught how to strip and repair machinery.

• 12 a row of stores and small businesses built together along the side of a main road:

  • commercial/retail strips