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noun
- The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare.
- The laying bare of rocks by the washing away of the overlying earth, etc.; or the excavation and removal of them by the action of running water.
- The loss of the cellular covering of (the interior or exterior surface of an organ, etc.).
verb
- To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
- To perform a striptease.
- To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
- To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
- To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.
- To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
- 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.
- To remove the insulation from a wire/cable.
- To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
- To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
- To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
- To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
- To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
- To remove cargo from (a container).
- To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
- To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
- To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
- To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.
- To take off clothing.
- To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
- To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
- To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
noun
- The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
- The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
- Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.
- The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
- A strip steak.
- The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
- A trough for washing ore.
- An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one call and two put options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bearish than a straddle.
- A landing strip.
- A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
- A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
- A comic strip.
- A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
- A television series aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
adj
noun
- the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary
- the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object
- the outermost level of the land or sea
- a superficial aspect as opposed to the real nature of something
- information that has become public
- a device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air; can lift or control a plane in flight
verb
noun
- an outer surface (usually thin)
- a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch
- body covering of a living animal
- a person's skin regarded as their life
- a member of any of several British or American groups consisting predominantly of young people who shave their heads; some engage in white supremacist and anti-immigrant activities and this leads to the perception that all skinheads are racist and violent
- a person whose head is bald or shaved
- the rind of a fruit or vegetable
- a bag serving as a container for liquids; it is made from the hide of an animal
verb
verb
- cut the surface of; wear away the surface of
- cause friction
- scrape or rub as if to relieve itching
- postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
- gather (money or other resources) together over time
- carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
noun
- an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
- informal terms for money
- a competitor who has withdrawn from competition
- a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- dry mash for poultry
- a harsh noise made by scraping
- poor handwriting
- (golf) a handicap of zero strokes
- an indication of damage
adj
- Designed so as to cut from the underside.
- Having the parts in relief cut under.
- Produced by undercutting.
verb
- To create an overhang by cutting away material from underneath.
- To undermine.
- To sell (something) at a lower price, or to work for lower wages, than a competitor.
- To strike a heavy blow upward.
noun
- The underside of a sirloin of beef; the fillet.
- A cut made in the lower part of something; the material so removed.
- The notch cut in a tree to direct its fall when being felled.
- A hairstyle that is shaved or clipped short on the sides and kept long on the top.
- A blow dealt upward.
- A section of a mold or pattern with negative draft angle
- A pit stop strategy in which a driver seeks to gain an advantage over someone by pitting before them and using fresh tyres to make up time.
noun
- A part or surface on which another part or surface rests.
- An ejection seat.
- The horizontal portion of a chair or other furniture designed for sitting.
- A piece of furniture made for sitting; e.g. a chair, stool or bench; any improvised place for sitting.
- The part of an object or individual (usually the buttocks) directly involved in sitting.
- The part of a piece of clothing (usually pants or trousers) covering the buttocks.
- A place in which to sit.
- The starting point of a fire.
- An electoral district, especially for a national legislature.
- Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
- One of a series of departmental placements given to a trainee solicitor as part of their training contract.
- A membership in an organization, particularly a representative body.
- The location of a governing body.
- A temporary residence, such as a country home or a hunting lodge.
- The place occupied by anything, or where any person, thing or quality is situated or resides; a site.
verb
- To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
- To settle; to plant with inhabitants.
- To recognize the standing of a person or persons by providing them with one or more seats which would allow them to participate fully in a meeting or session.
- To put a seat or bottom in.
- To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.
- To provide with a place to sit.
- To request or direct one or more persons to sit.
- To assign the seats of.
noun
- A flat placed perpendicularly to break up a flat surface.
- An energetic trot, slower than a run, often used as a form of exercise.
- A sudden push or nudge.
- In card tricks, one or more cards that are secretly made to protrude slightly from the deck as an aid to the performer.
verb
- To cause to move at an energetic trot.
- To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.
- To shake, stir or rouse.
- To walk or ride forward with a jolting pace; to move at a heavy pace, trudge; to move on or along.
- To straighten stacks of paper by lightly tapping against a flat surface.
- To move at a pace between walking and running, to run at a leisurely pace.
noun
- a surface forming part of the outside of an object
- the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
- the feelings expressed on a person's face
- the general outward appearance of something
- the striking or working surface of an implement
- a part of a person that is used to refer to a person
- the part of an animal corresponding to the human face
- the side upon which the use of a thing depends (usually the most prominent surface of an object)
- a contorted facial expression
- a specific size and style of type within a type family
- status in the eyes of others
- impudent aggressiveness
- a vertical surface of a building or cliff
verb
- deal with (something unpleasant) head on
- oppose, as in hostility or a competition
- be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to
- be opposite
- turn so as to face; turn the face in a certain direction
- present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize
- turn so as to expose the face
- line the edge (of a garment) with a different material
- cover the front or surface of
noun
- a surface forming part of the outside of an object
- a place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location
- one of two or more contesting groups
- either the left or right half of a body
- an extended outer surface of an object
- an aspect of something (as contrasted with some other implied aspect)
- a line segment forming part of the perimeter of a plane figure
- a family line of descent
- a lengthwise dressed half of an animal's carcass used for food
- an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
- an elevated geological formation
- (sports) the spin given to a ball by striking it on one side or releasing it with a sharp twist
adj
verb
noun
adj
- relating to or being on or near the outer side or limit
- located, suited for, or taking place in the open air
adv
adj
- coming from the outside
- originating or belonging beyond some bounds
- functioning outside the boundaries or precincts of an organized unit
- leading to or from the outside
- from or between other countries
- unlikely to occur
- on or toward an outer edge
- (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter
noun
noun
- A thin surface layer; superficial cover.
- A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering.
- A floor pad to protect athletes.
- A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster.
- A material or component needed for a crafting recipe.
- A thickly tangled mess.
- An alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc.; white metal.
- A thin layer of woven, non-woven, or knitted fiber that serves as reinforcement to a material.
verb
prep_phrase
verb
- To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.
- To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
- To speak sharply.
- To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).
- To strip the bark from; to peel.
- To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark.
- To girdle.
noun
- The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it.
- The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.
- Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.
- A vessel, typically with three (or more) masts, with the foremasts (or fore- and mainmasts) square-rigged, and mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
- The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals.
- An abrupt loud vocal utterance.
- The envelopment or outer covering of anything.
- A sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
- Hard candy made in flat sheets, for instance out of chocolate, peanut butter, toffee or peppermint.
noun
- Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.
- A particular geographic region.
- An open space, below ground level, giving access to the basement of a house, and typically separated from the pavement by railings.
- The extent, scope, or range of an object or concept.
- Genitals.
- A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.
- Penalty box; penalty area.
noun
- A surface to which a substance adheres.
- An underlying layer; a substratum.
- The substance lining the bottom edge of an enclosure.
- A surface on which an organism grows, or to which an organism or an item is attached.
- A language that is replaced in a population by another language and that influences the language imposed on its speakers.
- A metal which is plated with another metal which has different physical properties.
- A substance acted upon, as by an enzyme.
adj
verb
- To remove something from a wall or similar vertical surface to which it is fixed.
- To write down as a note, especially to record something spoken.
- To remove a temporary structure such as scaffolding.
- To remove something from a website.
- To arrest someone or to place them in detention.
- I took down the medicine and soon felt better.
- To remove something from a hanging position.
- To collapse or become incapacitated from illness or fatigue.
- To lower an item of clothing without removing it.
- If you have a pen, you can take down my phone number.
- To swallow.
- To reduce.
- To defeat; to destroy or kill (a person).
- To force one’s opponent off their feet in order to transition from striking to grappling in jujitsu, mixed martial arts, etc.
noun
adj
- having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities
- of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth
- (music) without breaks between notes; smooth and connected
- of motion that runs or flows or proceeds without jolts or turbulence
noun
adj
- smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication
- smooth and unconstrained in movement
- lacking obstructions or difficulties
- (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves
verb
adj
noun
- The surface space occupied by a structure.
- A polygon representing the shape of an item.
- The impression of the foot in a soft substance such as sand or snow.
- Availability of a satellite from the ground.
- Profession or lifestyle.
- The audit trail left by a crashed program.
- Space required by a piece of equipment.
- The ecological impact of a human activity, machine, etc.
- The amount of hard drive space required for a program.
- A company's geographic market presence.
noun
noun
adj
- Not thorough, deep, or complete; concerned only with the obvious or apparent.
- Lacking depth of character or understanding; lacking substance or significance.
- Existing, occurring, or located on the surface.
- Appearing to be true or real only until examined more closely.
- Situated or occurring on the skin or immediately beneath it.
- Two-dimensional; drawn on a flat surface.
- Denoting a quantity of a material expressed in terms of area covered rather than linear dimension or volume.
noun
- The lower inside surface of a hollow space.
- The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.
- A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
- The area of an establishment where food and drink are served to customers.
- The area of a casino where gambling occurs.
- A lower limit on the interest rate payable on an otherwise variable-rate loan, used by lenders to defend against falls in interest rates. Opposite of a cap.
- In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
- The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
- The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
- A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
- The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.
- An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface; floor exercise
- A dance floor.
- A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
- The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
- A storey/story of a building.
- That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
- Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).
- Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
verb
verb
noun
noun
- the outside boundary or surface of something
- a part of the city far removed from the center
- one of the light or dark bands produced by the interference and diffraction of light
- a social group holding marginal or extreme views
- a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead
- an ornamental border consisting of short lengths of hanging threads or tassels
verb
verb
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- To form a shelling.
- To switch to a shell or command line.
noun
- The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- A gouge bit or shell bit.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- An emaciated person.
- The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- The outward form independent of what is inside.
- A legal entity that has no operations.
- The empty outward form of someone or something.
- An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- A person's ear.
- Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- Any mollusk having such a covering.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
noun
- That portion of a surface that remains after an open disk is removed from it.
- A series of holes punched through something in order to assist in separating parts.
- An abnormal opening in an organ, such as a rupture.
- Any opening in a solid object.
- The act of perforating or the state of being perforated.
noun
- The edge or border of any flat surface.
- A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.
- The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.
- margin of victory
- That which is ancillary; periphery.
- The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from a set or group.
- The edge of the paper, typically left blank when printing but sometimes used for annotations etc.
- A difference or ratio between results, characteristics, scores.
- Collateral security deposited with a broker, to compensate the broker in the event of loss in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, commodities, etc.
verb
verb
- To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
- To instill through repetitive teaching.
- To oppress, hold down or weaken.
- To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
- To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
- To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
- To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
- To operate by turning a crank.
- To shape with the force of friction.
- To rotate the hips erotically.
- To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
- To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.
- To eat.
- To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
- To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
- To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
noun
- The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
- A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.
- A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
- A tedious and laborious task.
- Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
- A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
- Hustle; hard work.
verb
- To remove part of a surface (from).
- To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.
- To act as a strikebreaker.
- To beg (for), to cadge or bum.
- To become covered by a scab or scabs.
noun
- The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
- The scabies.
- A worker who acts against trade union policies; any picket crosser (strikebreaker), and especially one with devotion to union busting.
- Any of several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by streptomyces bacteria (but formerly believed to be caused by a fungus).
- A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
- A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
- Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
- An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
- Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies.
noun
- The action of peeling away from a formation.
- A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.
- 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.
- A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
- A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.
- An equal or match; a draw.
- The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
verb
- To remove something from the outer or top layer of.
- To remove one's clothing.
- To move, separate (off or away).
- To play a peel shot.
- To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).
- To remove the skin or outer covering of.
- To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.
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