The difference between Dress and Strip
When used as nouns, dress means an item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part of the body and includes skirts below the waist, whereas strip means long, thin piece of land, or of any material.
When used as verbs, dress means to prepare oneself, whereas strip means to remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
Strip is also adjective with the meaning: involving the removal of clothes.
check bellow for the other definitions of Dress and Strip
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Dress as a noun (countable):
An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part of the body and includes skirts below the waist.
Examples:
"Amy and Mary looked very pretty in their dresses."
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Dress as a noun (uncountable):
Apparel, clothing.
Examples:
"He came to the party in formal dress."
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Dress as a noun:
The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
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Dress as a noun:
A dress rehearsal.
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Dress as a verb (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive):
To prepare oneself; to make ready.
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Dress as a verb:
To adorn, ornament.
Examples:
"It was time to dress the windows for Christmas again."
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Dress as a verb (nautical):
To ornament (a ship) by hoisting the national colours at the peak and mastheads, and setting the jack forward; when "dressed full", the signal flags and pennants are added.
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Dress as a verb (transitive):
To treat (a wound, or wounded person).
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Dress as a verb (transitive):
To prepare (food) for cooking, especially by seasoning it.
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Dress as a verb (transitive):
To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or someone).
Examples:
"He was dressed in the latest fashions."
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Dress as a verb (intransitive):
To clothe oneself; to put on clothes.
Examples:
"I rose and dressed before daybreak.  It's very cold out. Dress warm."
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Dress as a verb (sports, ambitransitive):
To put on the uniform and equipment necessary to play the game.
Examples:
"Due to a left ankle sprain, Kobe Bryant did not dress for the game against Indiana"
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Dress as a verb (intransitive):
Of a man, to allow the genitals to fall to one side or other within the trousers.
Examples:
"Does sir dress to the right or the left?"
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Dress as a verb:
To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.
Examples:
"to dress leather or cloth;  to dress a garden;  to dress grain, by cleansing it;  in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them"
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Dress as a verb (transitive):
To prepare the surface of (a material; usually stone or lumber).
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Dress as a verb (transitive):
To bolt or sift flour.
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Dress as a verb (military, ambitransitive):
To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align. Sometimes an imperative command.
Examples:
"to dress the ranks"
"Right, dress!"
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Dress as a verb:
To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.
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Strip as a noun (countable, uncountable):
Long, thin piece of land, or of any material.
Examples:
"You use strips of paper in papier mache. He welded together some pieces of strip."
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Strip as a noun:
A comic strip.
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Strip as a noun:
A landing strip.
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Strip as a noun:
A strip steak.
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Strip as a noun:
A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
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Strip as a noun (fencing):
The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
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Strip as a noun:
(UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
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Strip as a noun:
Striptease.
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Strip as a noun (mining):
A trough for washing ore.
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Strip as a noun:
The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
Examples:
"rfquotek Farrow"
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Strip as a verb (transitive):
To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
Examples:
"Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair."
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Strip as a verb (usually, intransitive):
To take off clothing.
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Strip as a verb (intransitive):
To perform a striptease.
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Strip as a verb (transitive):
To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
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Strip as a verb (transitive):
To remove cargo from (a container).
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Strip as a verb (transitive):
To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear.
Examples:
"The thread is stripped."
"The screw is stripped."
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Strip as a verb (intransitive):
To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
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Strip as a verb (transitive):
To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
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Strip as a verb (transitive, bridge):
To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze.)
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Strip as a verb (transitive):
To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
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Strip as a verb (transitive):
To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
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Strip as a verb (television, transitive):
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.
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Strip as a verb (transitive, agriculture):
To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
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Strip as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
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Strip as a verb:
To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
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Strip as a verb:
To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
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Strip as a verb:
To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
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Strip as a verb:
To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
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Strip as an adjective (of, _, games):
Involving the removal of clothes.