Rip vs. Strip

Ripnoun

A tear (in paper, etc.).

Ripnoun

A type of tide or current.

Ripnoun

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

Ripnoun

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

Ripnoun

(slang) A hit (dose) of marijuana.

Ripnoun

A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.

Ripnoun

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

Ripnoun

A wicker basket for fish.

Ripnoun

A worthless horse; a nag.

Ripnoun

An immoral man; a rake, a scoundrel.

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.

Ripverb

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

Ripverb

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

Ripverb

To move quickly and destructively.

Ripverb

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

Ripverb

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

Ripverb

To take a "hit" of marijuana.

Ripverb

(slang) To fart.

Ripverb

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

Ripverb

To steal; to rip off.

Ripverb

To move or act fast, to rush headlong.

Ripverb

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

Ripverb

To surf extremely well.

Ripnoun

A wicker fish basket.

Ripnoun

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

Ripnoun

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

Ripnoun

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

Ripverb

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.

Ripverb

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

Ripverb

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

Ripverb

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

Ripnoun

a dissolute man in fashionable society

Ripnoun

an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart;

Ripnoun

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

Ripnoun

the act of rending or ripping or splitting something;

Ripverb

tear or be torn violently;

Ripverb

move precipitously or violently;

Ripverb

cut (wood) along the grain

Ripverb

criticize or abuse strongly and violently;

Stripnoun

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

Stripnoun

A comic strip.

Stripnoun

A landing strip.

Stripnoun

A strip steak.

Stripnoun

A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.

Stripnoun

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

Stripnoun

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

Stripnoun

Striptease.

Stripnoun

(mining) A trough for washing ore.

Stripnoun

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

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

To take off clothing.

Stripverb

(intransitive) To perform a striptease.

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

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

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.

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

Stripadjective

Involving the removal of clothes.

Stripverb

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.

Stripverb

To divest of clothing; to uncover.

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

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.

Stripverb

To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.

Stripverb

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.

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8.

Stripnoun

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

Stripnoun

A trough for washing ore.

Stripnoun

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

Stripnoun

a relatively long narrow piece of something;

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;

Stripverb

take away possessions from someone;

Stripverb

get undressed;

Stripverb

remove the surface from;

Stripverb

remove substances from by a percolating liquid;

Stripverb

lay bare;

Stripverb

steal goods; take as spoils;

Stripverb

remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely;

Stripverb

strip the cured leaves from;

Stripverb

remove the thread (of screws)

Stripverb

remove a constituent from a liquid

Stripverb

take off or remove;

Stripverb

draw the last milk (of cows)

Stripverb

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