The difference between Strip and Take away

When used as verbs, strip means to remove or take away, often in strips or stripes, whereas take away means to remove something and put it in a different place.

Strip is also noun with the meaning: long, thin piece of land, or of any material.

Strip is also adjective with the meaning: involving the removal of clothes.

Take away is also preposition with the meaning: minus.

check bellow for the other definitions of Strip and Take away

  1. 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."

  2. Strip as a noun:

    A comic strip.

  3. Strip as a noun:

    A landing strip.

  4. Strip as a noun:

    A strip steak.

  5. Strip as a noun:

    A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.

  6. Strip as a noun (fencing):

    The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.

  7. Strip as a noun:

    (UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.

  8. Strip as a noun:

    Striptease.

  9. Strip as a noun (mining):

    A trough for washing ore.

  10. Strip as a noun:

    The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Farrow"

  1. 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."

  2. Strip as a verb (usually, intransitive):

    To take off clothing.

  3. Strip as a verb (intransitive):

    To perform a striptease.

  4. Strip as a verb (transitive):

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

  5. Strip as a verb (transitive):

    To remove cargo from (a container).

  6. 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."

  7. Strip as a verb (intransitive):

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

  8. Strip as a verb (transitive):

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

  9. Strip as a verb (transitive, bridge):

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

  10. Strip as a verb (transitive):

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

  11. Strip as a verb (transitive):

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

  12. 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.

  13. Strip as a verb (transitive, agriculture):

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

  14. Strip as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.

  15. Strip as a verb:

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

  16. Strip as a verb:

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

  17. Strip as a verb:

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

  18. Strip as a verb:

    To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

  1. Strip as an adjective (of, _, games):

    Involving the removal of clothes.

  1. Take away as a verb:

    To remove something and put it in a different place.

    Examples:

    "Mother took our plates away and came back with some fruit for us to eat."

  2. Take away as a verb:

    To remove something, either material or abstract, so that a person no longer has it.

    Examples:

    "The teacher took my mobile phone away until the end of the lesson."

    "The new law will take away some important rights from immigrant residents."

    "The doctor gave me pills to take away the pain."

  3. Take away as a verb:

    To subtract or diminish something.

    Examples:

    "If I have five apples and you take away two, how many do I have left?"

  4. Take away as a verb:

    To leave a memory or impression in one's mind that you think about later.

    Examples:

    "I took away the impression that the play was under rehearsed."

  5. Take away as a verb (of a person):

    To make someone leave a place and go somewhere else. Usually not with the person's consent.

    Examples:

    "The police took him away for questioning."

    "I'm taking you away to the country for a rest. It's for your own good!"

  6. Take away as a verb (of a person):

    To prevent, or limit, someone from being somewhere, or from doing something.

    Examples:

    "My job takes me away from home most weekends."

    "Using the internet so much can take you away from your studies."

  1. Take away as a preposition:

    minus

    Examples:

    "Five take away two is three.'' <math>(5 - 2 = 3)</math>"

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