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 →

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

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 →
• 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

• Elephants use their tusks to dig for water and salt, strip bark, move things and defend themselves.
• Wild chimpanzees make tools: they fish for termites with stripped twigs, crack nuts with stones and use leaves as sponges.
• Sauropods did not chew; they stripped leaves, swallowed them whole and let their huge gut break the plants down slowly.
• Builders in Hong Kong still use bamboo scaffolding tied with plastic strips, though more and more metal scaffolding is used there too.
• Stripping the leaves means it is making a tool, not just finding one.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «strip» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.