Meaning of "strip" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD STRIP

Old English bestriepan to plunder; related to Old High German stroufen to plunder, strip.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF STRIP

strip  [strɪp]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STRIP

Strip is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb strip in English.

WHAT DOES STRIP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of strip in the English dictionary

The first definition of strip in the dictionary is to take or pull off. Other definition of strip is to remove all one's clothes. Strip is also to perform a striptease.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO STRIP

PRESENT

Present

I strip

you strip

he/she/it strips

we strip

you strip

they strip

Present continuous

I am stripping

you are stripping

he/she/it is stripping

we are stripping

you are stripping

they are stripping

Present perfect

I have stripped

you have stripped

he/she/it has stripped

we have stripped

you have stripped

they have stripped

Present perfect continuous

I have been stripping

you have been stripping

he/she/it has been stripping

we have been stripping

you have been stripping

they have been stripping

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I stripped

you stripped

he/she/it stripped

we stripped

you stripped

they stripped

Past continuous

I was stripping

you were stripping

he/she/it was stripping

we were stripping

you were stripping

they were stripping

Past perfect

I had stripped

you had stripped

he/she/it had stripped

we had stripped

you had stripped

they had stripped

Past perfect continuous

I had been stripping

you had been stripping

he/she/it had been stripping

we had been stripping

you had been stripping

they had been stripping

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will strip

you will strip

he/she/it will strip

we will strip

you will strip

they will strip

Future continuous

I will be stripping

you will be stripping

he/she/it will be stripping

we will be stripping

you will be stripping

they will be stripping

Future perfect

I will have stripped

you will have stripped

he/she/it will have stripped

we will have stripped

you will have stripped

they will have stripped

Future perfect continuous

I will have been stripping

you will have been stripping

he/she/it will have been stripping

we will have been stripping

you will have been stripping

they will have been stripping

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would strip

you would strip

he/she/it would strip

we would strip

you would strip

they would strip

Conditional continuous

I would be stripping

you would be stripping

he/she/it would be stripping

we would be stripping

you would be stripping

they would be stripping

Conditional perfect

I would have strip

you would have strip

he/she/it would have strip

we would have strip

you would have strip

they would have strip

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been stripping

you would have been stripping

he/she/it would have been stripping

we would have been stripping

you would have been stripping

they would have been stripping

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you strip
we let´s strip
you strip

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to strip

Past participle

stripped

Present Participle

stripping

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «STRIP»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «strip» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of strip

abrade · area · avenue · band · belt · bit · boulevard · clean · clear · denude · deprive · disassemble · dismantle · disrobe · divest · empty · expanse · extent · fillet · lane · loot · peel · piece · pillage · plunder · ransack · ribbon · road · roadway · rob · row · rub · sack · scrape · shave · shred · slip · street · stretch · swathe · take apart · terrace · thoroughfare · tongue · tract · unclothe · undress

TRANSLATION OF STRIP

Find out the translation of strip to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of strip from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «strip» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 条
• Translator English - Spanish: tira
• English: strip
• Translator English - Hindi: पट्टी
• Translator English - Arabic: شَرِيطَة
• Translator English - Russian: полоска
• Translator English - Portuguese: faixa
• Translator English - Bengali: ফালা
• Translator English - French: bande
• Translator English - Malay: Jalur
• Translator English - German: Streifen
• Translator English - Japanese: ストリップ
• Translator English - Korean: 긴 조각
• Translator English - Javanese: Strip
• Translator English - Vietnamese: mảnh
• Translator English - Tamil: ஆடை அவிழ்ப்பு
• Translator English - Marathi: पट्टी
• Translator English - Turkish: şerit
• Translator English - Italian: striscia
• Translator English - Polish: striptiz
• Translator English - Ukrainian: смужка
• Translator English - Romanian: fâșie
• Translator English - Greek: λωρίδα
• Translator English - Afrikaans: strook
• Translator English - Swedish: remsa
• Translator English - Norwegian: remse

10 QUOTES WITH «STRIP»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word strip.

1

Howard Baker

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so.

2

Kevin Bales

If you look at slavery across all human history, and you sort of strip away the packaging, whether it's racialized or religious-based, and you look at the actual core of the slavery, it's one person completely controlling another one.

3

Majel Barrett

We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States.

4

Marion Barry

First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl.

5

Alison Bechdel

I get a lot of mail from men who really identify with Stuart, you know, Sparrow's boyfriend. I love that. Even though I used to say I wanted men to read the strip even though there weren't any men in it, so they'd be forced to identify with the women.

6

Alison Bechdel

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

7

Peter Benchley

If you take away the predators in the prairies and the national parks, you suddenly have an explosion of elk, and then you have a lack of the food source for the elk, so they strip all the ground bare and that takes away the cover, on and on and on and on. The whole food chain is disrupted.

8

Roberto Benigni

I am like a cartoon strip; I am like Donald Duck; everybody knows me in Italy.

9

John Blair

Initially charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest I was held for 36 hours, was beaten by cops and made to stand spread eagled against the cell wall for 12 hours with no food or water, until I collapsed. Everyone was strip searched on the way in.

10

Berkeley Breathed

I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STRIP»

Discover the use of strip in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to strip and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Moomin Book Three: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip

Presents the complete comic series featuring Tove Jansson's observations of everyday life.

Tove Jansson, 2008

Strip

Strip reveals the lives of 50's pin-up Bettie page, and hardcore porn stars of the following eras with stunning beauty and poignancy.

Angela Readman, 2008

Strip Club: Gender, Power, and Sex Work

In Strip Club, Kim Price‒Glynn takes us behind the scenes at a rundown club where women strip out of economic need, a place where strippers’ stories are not glamorous or liberating, but emotionally demanding and physically exhausting.

Kim Price-Glynn, 2010

Father of the Comic Strip: Rodolphe Töpffer

Sixty years before the comics entered the American newspaper press, Rodolphe Topffer of Geneva (1799-1846), schoolmaster, university professor, polemical journalist, art critic, landscape draftsman, and writer of fiction, travel tales, and ...

David Kunzle, 2010

Comic-strip Grammar: 40 Reproducible Cartoons with Engaging ...

Greenberg presents 40 reproducible cartoons with engaging practice exercises that make learning grammar fun. Covers a wide range of topics such as parts of speech, capitalization, and more. Illustrations.

Dan Greenberg, 2000

Comic-Strip Math: 40 Reproducible Cartoons with Dozens of ...

Comics + Math = Fun. This zany collection of cartoons and companion word problems helps students learn fundamental math concepts, like addition, subtraction, multiplications, division, fractions, decimals, and more. One-color illustrations.

Dan Greenberg, 2000

Vegas Strip Deaths: Shocking True Stories of Murders, ...

These are the stories they don?t want you to know.

Jeff Terrozas, 2009

Strip

Praise for Thomas Perry and "Strip: " "Perry is the master, and "Strip" is a slice of pure crime nirvana. You will not want to put it down. You will not want it to end. You will be very, very entertained.

Thomas Perry, 2010

Strip Method Design Handbook

This book provides a practical guide for the designer demonstrating how to use the strip method in a wide range of design situations specific to a slab type.

A. Hillerborg, 1996

Strip

Beautiful Rio, the owner of a male strip club that's all about women's pleasure, meets her match in a new dancer named Bryce who keeps her satisfied both on and off the stage. Original.

Delta Dupree, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STRIP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term strip is used in the context of the following news items.

1 hospitalized after fire at Cosmopolitan on Las Vegas Strip …

Smoke billows from a fire at the pool of The Cosmopolitan hotel-casino on the strip in Las Vegas on Saturday, July 25, 2015. (Joshua Dahl/Las Vegas ... «Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jul 15»

Tech's Hottest Lunch Spot? A Strip Club

This is the Gold Club, a strip club that's become the go-to lunch spot for many of the city's technology employees and business workers. Nestled among the high ... «Forbes, Jul 15»

'Bloom County 2015': Berkeley Breathed Revives Comic Strip

Fans of the well-loved comic strip Bloom County are celebrating this morning, after cartoonist Berkeley Breathed issued the first panels of his satirical strip in ... «NPR, Jul 15»

Clubby STRIP by Strega reveals its surprise: really good food

There is enough female skin on display at STRIP by Strega that the name at first seems to reference both a cut of steak and the removal of clothing. But that is ... «Boston Globe, Jul 15»

The Strip

A weekly comic strip featured in the Sunday Review. A version of this op-ed appears in print on November 16, 2014, on page SR3 of the New York edition with ... «New York Times, Jun 15»

Mountain strip woman Eleanor Hawkins 'truly sorry'

A British woman jailed in Malaysia for stripping off on a sacred mountain has apologised for causing offence. Eleanor Hawkins, 23, from Derbyshire, was one of ... «BBC News, Jun 15»

I went to a strip club and it brought out my inner sexist

And so that's how I found myself, on a Friday night - while London's other twentysomething's poured into beer gardens - trying to decide what to wear to a strip ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»

Nicholas Kristof | My First Time in a Strip Club

The first time most guys go into a strip club, it's party time. Alcohol pours. Dancers sell dreams. Groomsmen pick up the tab as lap dances go to the bachelor. «New York Times, Jun 15»

The long, costly battles to regulate suburban strip clubs

Just south of Elgin, surrounded by green space and struggling industrial sites, lies Kane County's last strip club. The sign for Blackjacks Gentlemen's Club ... «Chicago Daily Herald, May 15»

Police: Strip club co-owner dealt painkillers to patrons

Narcotics detectives raided a Midtown strip club Wednesday night and seized 461 oxymorphone pills with a street value of more than $18,000. Metro police ... «The Tennessean, May 15»