STRIPPING

To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.

Example: "Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair."

(usually intransitive) to take off clothing.

Example: "Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river."

To perform a striptease.

Example: "In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping."

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

Example: "The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test."

To remove cargo from (a container).

To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.

Example: "Don't tighten that bolt any more or you'll strip the thread."

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

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

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

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

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

To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.

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.

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

To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).

To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.

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

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

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

To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).