Strip vs. Peel
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;
Peelverb
(transitive) To remove the skin or outer covering of.
Peelverb
(transitive) To remove something from the outer or top layer of.
Peelverb
(intransitive) To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.
Peelverb
(intransitive) To remove one's clothing.
Peelverb
(intransitive) To move, separate (off or away).
Peelverb
(curling) To play a peel shot.
Peelverb
(croquet) To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).
Peelverb
misspelling of peal|nodot=1: to sound loudly.
Peelverb
To plunder; to pillage, rob.
Peelnoun
The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
Peelnoun
The action of peeling away from a formation.
Peelnoun
(countable) A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.
Peelnoun
(obsolete) A stake.
Peelnoun
(obsolete) A fence made of stakes; a stockade.
Peelnoun
(archaic) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
Peelnoun
A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.
Peelnoun
A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
Peelnoun
The blade of an oar.
Peelnoun
An equal or match; a draw.
Peelnoun
(curling) A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.
Peelnoun
A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
Peelnoun
A spadelike implement, variously used, as for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven; also, a T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar.
Peelnoun
The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
Peelverb
To plunder; to pillage; to rob.
Peelverb
To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange.
Peelverb
To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.
Peelverb
To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; - often used with an adverb; as, the bark peels easily or readily.
Peelverb
To strip naked; to disrobe. Often used with down .
Peelnoun
the tissue forming the hard outer layer (of e.g. a fruit)
Peelnoun
British politician (1788-1850)
Peelnoun
the rind of a fruit or vegetable
Peelverb
strip the skin off;
Peelverb
come off in flakes or thin small pieces;
Peelverb
get undressed;
Peelverb
remove the outer covering or skin from (a fruit, vegetable, or prawn)
Peelverb
remove (the outer covering or skin) from a fruit or vegetable
Peelverb
(of a fruit or vegetable) have a skin that can be removed
Peelverb
remove a thin outer covering or part
Peelverb
remove an item of clothing
Peelverb
(of a surface or object) lose parts of its outer layer or covering in small strips or pieces
Peelverb
(of an outer layer) come off in strips or small pieces
Peelverb
send (another player's ball) through a hoop
Peelnoun
the outer covering or rind of a fruit or vegetable
Peelnoun
an act of exfoliating dead skin in the cosmetic treatment of microdermabrasion.
Peelnoun
a flat implement like a shovel, especially one used by a baker for carrying loaves or similar items of food into or out of an oven
Peelnoun
a small square defensive tower of a kind built in the 16th century in the border counties of England and Scotland.
