strip
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 →
2) To strip means to take off a cover or layer: strip the old paint. tree →
3) To strip a bed is to take off the sheets. tree →
4) A comic strip is a short story told in a row of pictures. tree →
5) A sports strip (UK) is the clothes a team wears. tree →
6) To strip can also mean to take off all your clothes. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: To "strip" is to take the priestly clothes off Aaron, whose garments mark his office. In the Prophets it also means to take off clothes and jewels as a shame, as when a fallen city is stripped like a woman made a slave. In Proverbs "striped cloths" means cloths with lines of colour. Interpretation: Moses gave Aaron's holy garments to his son Eleazar, who became high priest in his place. Tradition sees the clothes as carrying the office from one generation to the next. The prophets' stripping of a city is read as a picture of God's judgment on pride and wickedness. In the primary 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
- And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall die there.' (Torah NUM.20.26, JPS 1917) tree →
- They shall also strip thee of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels. (Prophets EZK.23.26, JPS 1917) tree →
- I have decked my couch with coverlets, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt. (Writings PRO.7.16, JPS 1917) tree →
- Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers. (Prophets ISA.47.2, JPS 1917) tree →
- She cut the paper into 8 strips. tree →
- Each strip is 3 inches wide. tree →
- A strip of land is 50 meters long. tree →
- He used 12 strips of tape. tree →
- We used fraction strips to show that two quarters make a half. tree →
- Dad stripped the old wallpaper off the wall. tree →
- I love reading the comic strips. tree →
- The team wore their new home strip. tree →
- I'll strip myself naked and lie down under the holy pictures. tree →
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
- And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments from mount Horeb onward.
- They shall also strip thee of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.
- He leadeth counsellors away stripped, and judges maketh He fools.
- He leadeth priests away stripped, and overthroweth the mighty.
- He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «strip» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.