The difference between Peel and Strip
When used as nouns, peel means the skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc, whereas strip means long, thin piece of land, or of any material.
When used as verbs, peel means to remove the skin or outer covering of, 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 Peel and Strip
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Peel as a verb (transitive):
To remove the skin or outer covering of.
Examples:
"I sat by my sister's bed, peeling oranges for her."
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Peel as a verb (transitive):
To remove something from the outer or top layer of.
Examples:
"I peeled (the skin from) a banana and ate it hungrily."
"We peeled the old wallpaper off in strips where it was hanging loose."
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Peel as a verb (intransitive):
To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.
Examples:
"I had been out in the sun too long, and my nose was starting to peel."
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Peel as a verb (intransitive):
To remove one's clothing.
Examples:
"The children peeled by the side of the lake and jumped in."
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Peel as a verb (intransitive):
To move, separate (off or away).
Examples:
"The scrum-half peeled off and made for the touchlines."
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Peel as a noun (usually, uncountable):
The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
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Peel as a noun (countable, rugby):
The action of peeling away from a formation.
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Peel as a noun (countable):
A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.
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Peel as a noun (obsolete):
A stake.
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Peel as a noun (obsolete):
A fence made of stakes; a stockade.
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Peel as a noun (archaic):
A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
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Peel as a noun:
A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.
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Peel as a noun:
A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
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Peel as a noun (archaic, US):
The blade of an oar.
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Peel as a noun (Scotland, curling):
An equal or match; a draw.
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Peel as a noun (curling):
A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.
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Peel as a verb (curling):
To play a peel shot.
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Peel as a verb (croquet):
To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).
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Peel as a verb:
to sound loudly.
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Peel as a verb (archaic, transitive):
To plunder; to pillage, rob.
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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.