stripping (verb)

  • 21strip — 1 verb stripped, stripping 1 TAKE OFF CLOTHES also strip off (I, T) to take off your clothes or take off someone else s clothes: Jack stripped off and jumped into the shower. | strip sb: The police stripped us all, looking for drugs. | stripped… …

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  • 22strip */*/ — I UK [strɪp] / US verb Word forms strip : present tense I/you/we/they strip he/she/it strips present participle stripping past tense stripped past participle stripped 1) a) [intransitive/transitive] to take off all of your clothes or all of… …

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  • 23weath|er-strip — weather strip, = weather stripping. (Cf. ↑weather stripping) weath|er strip «WEHTH uhr STRIHP», transitive verb, stripped, strip|ping. to fit or seal with weather stripping …

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  • 24Ellipsis (linguistics) — In the grammar of a sentence, an elliptical construction is a construction that lacks an element that is, nevertheless, recoverable or inferable from the context [http://www.sil.org/linguistics/glossaryoflinguisticterms/WhatIsAnEllipticalConstruct… …

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  • 25strip down — Ⅰ. UK US strip (sth) down Phrasal Verb with strip({{}}/strɪp/ verb [T] ( pp ) ► to remove the unnecessary parts of a system or process in order to make it more simple or efficient: »Pensions can be made simple by stripping them down to the basic… …

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  • 26strip sth down — Ⅰ. UK US strip (sth) down Phrasal Verb with strip({{}}/strɪp/ verb [T] ( pp ) ► to remove the unnecessary parts of a system or process in order to make it more simple or efficient: »Pensions can be made simple by stripping them down to the basic… …

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  • 27Index (search engine) — Search engine indexing collects, parses, and stores data to facilitate fast and accurate information retrieval. Index design incorporates interdisciplinary concepts from linguistics, cognitive psychology, mathematics, informatics, physics, and… …

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  • 29ravage — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. lay waste, pillage, plunder, sack, devastate. See destruction. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. pillage, overrun, devastate, destroy, despoil, lay waste, plunder, sack, desolate, wreck, waste, disrupt,… …

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  • 30strip away — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms strip away : present tense I/you/we/they strip away he/she/it strips away present participle stripping away past tense stripped away past participle stripped away 1) to remove something that covers something… …

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