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# strip

«strip» in Mova's school dictionary: **a long, narrow piece of something, like paper, cloth or land** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun, verb (strip, strips, stripped, stripping)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A strip is a long, narrow piece of something, like paper, cloth or land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strip/#m1)

2) To strip means to take off a cover or layer: strip the old paint. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strip/#m2)

3) To strip a bed is to take off the sheets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strip/#m3)

4) A comic strip is a short story told in a row of pictures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strip/#m4)

5) A sports strip (UK) is the clothes a team wears. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strip/#m5)

6) To strip can also mean to take off all your clothes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strip/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: a long narrow piece cut from paper, ribbon or land; cutting into equal strips means divide; strips of a given length lead to multiplying; fraction strips to compare fractions. Everyday: a strip of tape, a landing strip for planes, comic strips in the newspaper.

### examples

- She cut the paper into 8 strips. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strip/#x1)
- Each strip is 3 inches wide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strip/#x2)
- A strip of land is 50 meters long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strip/#x3)
- He used 12 strips of tape. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strip/#x4)
- We used fraction strips to show that two quarters make a half. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strip/#x5)
- Dad stripped the old wallpaper off the wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strip/#x6)
- I love reading the comic strips. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strip/#x7)
- The team wore their new home strip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strip/#x8)
- I'll strip myself naked and lie down under the holy pictures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strip/#x9)

### note

Countable noun; verb doubles the p: stripped, stripping. Cutting into equal strips means divide; strips of a given width or length lead to multiplying for the total. Trap: «strip» (narrow piece) is not «stripe» (a line of colour).

### In the corpora

- [Elephants use their tusks to dig for water and salt, strip bark, move things and defend themselves.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/10/)
- [Wild chimpanzees make tools: they fish for termites with stripped twigs, crack nuts with stones and use leaves as sponges.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees/7/)
- [Sauropods did not chew; they stripped leaves, swallowed them whole and let their huge gut break the plants down slowly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/266-the-long-necked-giants-sauropods/9/)
- [Builders in Hong Kong still use bamboo scaffolding tied with plastic strips, though more and more metal scaffolding is used there too.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies/11/)
- [Stripping the leaves means it is making a tool, not just finding one.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/387-clever-primates-tool-using-chimps-kanzi-the-bonobo-and-ayumu-s-memory/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «strip» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strip/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.