English words for 'screw pile'
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noun
noun
- A screw hob.
- A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed, or diverted.
- (surveying) A stake with a nail in it, used to mark a temporary point.
- A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are thrown.
- A central facility providing a range of related services, such as a medical hub or an educational hub.
- A block for scotching a wheel.
- The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave.
- (US) A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction.
- (networking) A computer networking device connecting several Ethernet ports. See switch.
- (video games) An area in a video game from which individual levels are accessed.
- A male weasel; a buck; a dog; a jack.
- A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.
- a center of activity or interest or commerce or transportation; a focal point around which events revolve
- the central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc.) through which the shaft or axle passes
name
noun
- The thread of a screw.
- (woodworking) Any scantling smaller than a batten.
- A colored or gilded border.
- (anatomy) A fascia; a band of fibres; applied especially to certain bands of white matter in the brain.
- (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an inside edge, added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.
- (heraldry) An ordinary equal in breadth to one quarter of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.
- (construction) A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet.
- (architecture) The space between two flutings in a shaft.
- The raised moulding around the muzzle of a gun.
- A thin strip of any material, in various technical uses.
- (UK) A premium cut of meat, especially beef, taken from below the lower back of the animal, considered to be lean and tender; also called tenderloin.
- (architecture) A thin featureless moulding/molding used as separation between broader decorative mouldings.
- A strip or compact piece of meat or fish from which any bones and skin and feathers have been removed.
- The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.
- a longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish
- a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef
- lace having a square mesh
- a narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband
- a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus
- fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members
verb
noun
noun
- (engineering) A screw thread.
- (weaving) A piece of yarn, especially said of warps and wefts in a woven fabric.
- (computing) A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.
- A continuing theme that modifies the whole discourse.
- A precarious condition; something that which offers no real or otherwise perceived security.
- A cord formed by spinning or twisting together textile fibers or filaments into one or more continuous strands, typically used in needlework.
- The continuing course of life; the thread of life.
- A line of reasoning, sequence of ideas, or train of thought.
- A sequence of connections.
- (Internet) A series of posts or messages, consisting of an initial post and responses to it, generally relating to the same subject, on a newsgroup, Internet forum, or social media platform.
- The line midway between the banks of a stream.
- Any of various natural (as spiderweb, etc.) or manufactured filaments (as glass, plastic, metal, etc.).
- A slender stream of water.
- the raised helical rib going around a screw
- a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving
- any long object resembling a thin line
- the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together
verb
- (intransitive) Of boiling syrup: To form a threadlike stream when poured from a spoon.
- (transitive) To fix (beads, pearls, etc.) upon a thread that is passed through; to string.
- To cautiously make (one's way) through a precarious place or situation.
- (transitive) To interweave as if with thread; to intersperse.
- (transitive) To pass a thread through the eye of a needle.
- (ambitransitive) To feed (a sewing machine or otherwise a projecting or exposing mechanism, such as a projector, a camera, etc.) with film. [(usually) with up]
- (transitive, figurative) To pass through; to pierce through; to penetrate.
- (transitive) To pass (a film or tape) through a projector, recorder, etc. so as to correct its path.
- (ambitransitive) To remove (facial hair) by way of a looped thread that is tightly wound in the middle.
- (transitive) To form a screw thread on or in (a bolt, hole, etc.).
- (transitive, figurative) To make one's way through or between (a constriction or obstacles).
- pass a thread through
- to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
- thread on or as if on a string
- remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string
- pass through or into
noun
verb
verb
- screw or turn higher
- make more intense
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- twist into a strained configuration
- (intransitive, colloquial) To blunder; to make a mistake.
- (transitive, colloquial) To make a mess of; to ruin.
- (transitive) To raise by turning a rotary handle.
- (transitive) To raise or summon up.
- (transitive) To twist into a contorted state.
- (transitive) To tighten or secure with screws.
- (transitive) To raise (rent, fees, etc.) to extortionate levels.
verb
- turn like a screw
- cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion
- have sexual intercourse with
- defeat someone through trickery or deceit
- tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions
- (transitive, slang) To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.
- (transitive) To contort.
- (ambitransitive, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (colloquial, transitive) To give up on, to abandon, delay, to not think about someone or something.
- (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
- (soccer, transitive) To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To screw back.
- (transitive) To extort or practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on.
- (colloquial, transitive, imperative, mildly vulgar) Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.
noun
- a simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole
- someone who guards prisoners
- a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air
- slang for sexual intercourse
- a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head
- (vulgar, slang) A casual sexual partner.
- (nautical) A ship's propeller.
- A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a partially or completely threaded shank, sometimes with a threaded point, and a head used to both hold the top material and to drive the screw either directly into a soft material or into a prepared hole.
- An Archimedes screw.
- (informal, in the plural, with "the") Rheumatism.
- (vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
- (mathematics) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated. It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.
- (slang, derogatory) A prison guard.
- (snooker, billiards) Backspin.
- (slang, derogatory) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
- An amphipod crustacean.
- A simple machine, a helical inclined plane.
- A steam vessel propelled by a screw instead of wheels.
- The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side.
verb
- pile in ricks
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- (transitive, dialectal) To pierce with a hook by means of a sudden jerk or pull.
- To slightly sprain or strain the neck, back, ankle etc; to wrench.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To raffle.
- To heap up (hay, etc.) in ricks.
- (transitive, dialectal) To scold.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To grumble.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To rattle, jingle, make a noise; to chatter.
noun
- a stack of hay
- a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (‘rick’ and ‘wrick’ are British)
- (intransitive, dialectal) A noise, rattling.
- (US) A stack of wood, especially cut to a regular length; also used as a measure of wood, typically four by eight feet.
- (dialectal) A sharp or sudden move; a jerk or tug.
- (military, derogatory and demeaning) A new and naive boot camp inductee.
- Straw, hay etc. stored in a stack for winter fodder, commonly protected with thatch.
noun
adj
noun
name
- A township in White County, Illinois.
- A surname originating as a patronymic derived from Philip.
- A community in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- An unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California.
- A village in Hamilton County, Nebraska.
- plural of Phillip
- A town in Franklin County, Maine.
- A ghost town in Hutchinson County, Texas.
- A city, the county seat of Price County, Wisconsin.
- A small town in Coal County, Oklahoma.
verb
- remove the thread (of screws)
- remove the surface from
- draw the last milk (of cows)
- remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely
- lay bare
- remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
- get undressed
- remove a constituent from a liquid
- remove substances from by a percolating liquid
- take away possessions from someone
- take off or remove
- strip the cured leaves from
- steal goods; take as spoils
- To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
- (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
- To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
- (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
- To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
- (transitive) To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.
- To remove the insulation from a wire/cable.
- (intransitive) To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.
- (transitive) To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
- (transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
- (transitive) To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
- (transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
- (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
- (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
- To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
- (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
- (transitive, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
- (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.
- (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
- (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
- To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
- (transitive) To remove cargo from (a container).
noun
- an airfield without normal airport facilities
- thin piece of wood or metal
- a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book
- a relatively long narrow piece of something
- a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- A landing strip.
- (fencing) The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
- (US) A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
- (countable) A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
- (slang) A strip club.
- (finance) 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 strip steak.
- (mining) A trough for washing ore.
- The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
- A comic strip.
- (television) 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.
- (UK, soccer) The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
- The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
- (usually countable, sometimes uncountable) A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
- (attributively, of games) Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.
adj
noun
- a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener
- a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length
- a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder
- a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech
- a sudden abandonment (as from a political party)
- the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key
- the act of moving with great haste
- (nautical) The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
- (military, mechanical engineering) A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
- A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt. (See thunderbolt.)
- A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.
- A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
- (US, politics) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
- A burst of speed or efficiency.
- A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.
- A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc).
- A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
- A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
- An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
- A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
- A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.
- A sudden event, action or emotion.
- A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
adv
verb
- eat hastily without proper chewing
- make or roll into bolts
- leave suddenly and as if in a hurry
- secure or lock with a bolt
- run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
- move or jump suddenly
- swallow hastily
- To sift, especially through a cloth.
- (intransitive, botany, of lettuce, spinach, garlic, onion, etc) To produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed.
- (intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate away suddenly.
- (transitive, figurative) To affix in a crude or unnatural manner.
- (transitive) To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
- (intransitive) To escape.
- To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
- (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
- (transitive) To secure a door by locking or barring it.
- (law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
- (transitive) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
- (transitive) To swallow food without chewing it.
- (US, politics) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
- To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
- To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
- To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
noun
noun
- A screw hob.
- A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed, or diverted.
- (surveying) A stake with a nail in it, used to mark a temporary point.
- A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are thrown.
- A central facility providing a range of related services, such as a medical hub or an educational hub.
- A block for scotching a wheel.
- The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave.
- (US) A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction.
- (networking) A computer networking device connecting several Ethernet ports. See switch.
- (video games) An area in a video game from which individual levels are accessed.
- A male weasel; a buck; a dog; a jack.
- A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.
- a center of activity or interest or commerce or transportation; a focal point around which events revolve
- the central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc.) through which the shaft or axle passes
name
noun
- The thread of a screw.
- (woodworking) Any scantling smaller than a batten.
- A colored or gilded border.
- (anatomy) A fascia; a band of fibres; applied especially to certain bands of white matter in the brain.
- (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an inside edge, added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.
- (heraldry) An ordinary equal in breadth to one quarter of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.
- (construction) A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet.
- (architecture) The space between two flutings in a shaft.
- The raised moulding around the muzzle of a gun.
- A thin strip of any material, in various technical uses.
- (UK) A premium cut of meat, especially beef, taken from below the lower back of the animal, considered to be lean and tender; also called tenderloin.
- (architecture) A thin featureless moulding/molding used as separation between broader decorative mouldings.
- A strip or compact piece of meat or fish from which any bones and skin and feathers have been removed.
- The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.
- a longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish
- a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef
- lace having a square mesh
- a narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband
- a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus
- fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members
verb
noun
noun
- (engineering) A screw thread.
- (weaving) A piece of yarn, especially said of warps and wefts in a woven fabric.
- (computing) A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.
- A continuing theme that modifies the whole discourse.
- A precarious condition; something that which offers no real or otherwise perceived security.
- A cord formed by spinning or twisting together textile fibers or filaments into one or more continuous strands, typically used in needlework.
- The continuing course of life; the thread of life.
- A line of reasoning, sequence of ideas, or train of thought.
- A sequence of connections.
- (Internet) A series of posts or messages, consisting of an initial post and responses to it, generally relating to the same subject, on a newsgroup, Internet forum, or social media platform.
- The line midway between the banks of a stream.
- Any of various natural (as spiderweb, etc.) or manufactured filaments (as glass, plastic, metal, etc.).
- A slender stream of water.
- the raised helical rib going around a screw
- a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving
- any long object resembling a thin line
- the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together
verb
- (intransitive) Of boiling syrup: To form a threadlike stream when poured from a spoon.
- (transitive) To fix (beads, pearls, etc.) upon a thread that is passed through; to string.
- To cautiously make (one's way) through a precarious place or situation.
- (transitive) To interweave as if with thread; to intersperse.
- (transitive) To pass a thread through the eye of a needle.
- (ambitransitive) To feed (a sewing machine or otherwise a projecting or exposing mechanism, such as a projector, a camera, etc.) with film. [(usually) with up]
- (transitive, figurative) To pass through; to pierce through; to penetrate.
- (transitive) To pass (a film or tape) through a projector, recorder, etc. so as to correct its path.
- (ambitransitive) To remove (facial hair) by way of a looped thread that is tightly wound in the middle.
- (transitive) To form a screw thread on or in (a bolt, hole, etc.).
- (transitive, figurative) To make one's way through or between (a constriction or obstacles).
- pass a thread through
- to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
- thread on or as if on a string
- remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string
- pass through or into
noun
verb
noun
adj
noun
name
- A township in White County, Illinois.
- A surname originating as a patronymic derived from Philip.
- A community in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- An unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California.
- A village in Hamilton County, Nebraska.
- plural of Phillip
- A town in Franklin County, Maine.
- A ghost town in Hutchinson County, Texas.
- A city, the county seat of Price County, Wisconsin.
- A small town in Coal County, Oklahoma.
noun
- a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener
- a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length
- a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder
- a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech
- a sudden abandonment (as from a political party)
- the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key
- the act of moving with great haste
- (nautical) The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
- (military, mechanical engineering) A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
- A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt. (See thunderbolt.)
- A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.
- A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
- (US, politics) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
- A burst of speed or efficiency.
- A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.
- A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc).
- A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
- A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
- An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
- A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
- A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.
- A sudden event, action or emotion.
- A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
adv
verb
- eat hastily without proper chewing
- make or roll into bolts
- leave suddenly and as if in a hurry
- secure or lock with a bolt
- run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
- move or jump suddenly
- swallow hastily
- To sift, especially through a cloth.
- (intransitive, botany, of lettuce, spinach, garlic, onion, etc) To produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed.
- (intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate away suddenly.
- (transitive, figurative) To affix in a crude or unnatural manner.
- (transitive) To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
- (intransitive) To escape.
- To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
- (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
- (transitive) To secure a door by locking or barring it.
- (law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
- (transitive) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
- (transitive) To swallow food without chewing it.
- (US, politics) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
- To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
- To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
- To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
verb
- screw or turn higher
- make more intense
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- twist into a strained configuration
- (intransitive, colloquial) To blunder; to make a mistake.
- (transitive, colloquial) To make a mess of; to ruin.
- (transitive) To raise by turning a rotary handle.
- (transitive) To raise or summon up.
- (transitive) To twist into a contorted state.
- (transitive) To tighten or secure with screws.
- (transitive) To raise (rent, fees, etc.) to extortionate levels.
verb
- turn like a screw
- cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion
- have sexual intercourse with
- defeat someone through trickery or deceit
- tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions
- (transitive, slang) To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.
- (transitive) To contort.
- (ambitransitive, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (colloquial, transitive) To give up on, to abandon, delay, to not think about someone or something.
- (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
- (soccer, transitive) To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To screw back.
- (transitive) To extort or practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on.
- (colloquial, transitive, imperative, mildly vulgar) Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.
noun
- a simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole
- someone who guards prisoners
- a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air
- slang for sexual intercourse
- a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head
- (vulgar, slang) A casual sexual partner.
- (nautical) A ship's propeller.
- A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a partially or completely threaded shank, sometimes with a threaded point, and a head used to both hold the top material and to drive the screw either directly into a soft material or into a prepared hole.
- An Archimedes screw.
- (informal, in the plural, with "the") Rheumatism.
- (vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
- (mathematics) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated. It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.
- (slang, derogatory) A prison guard.
- (snooker, billiards) Backspin.
- (slang, derogatory) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
- An amphipod crustacean.
- A simple machine, a helical inclined plane.
- A steam vessel propelled by a screw instead of wheels.
- The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side.
verb
- pile in ricks
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- (transitive, dialectal) To pierce with a hook by means of a sudden jerk or pull.
- To slightly sprain or strain the neck, back, ankle etc; to wrench.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To raffle.
- To heap up (hay, etc.) in ricks.
- (transitive, dialectal) To scold.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To grumble.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To rattle, jingle, make a noise; to chatter.
noun
- a stack of hay
- a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (‘rick’ and ‘wrick’ are British)
- (intransitive, dialectal) A noise, rattling.
- (US) A stack of wood, especially cut to a regular length; also used as a measure of wood, typically four by eight feet.
- (dialectal) A sharp or sudden move; a jerk or tug.
- (military, derogatory and demeaning) A new and naive boot camp inductee.
- Straw, hay etc. stored in a stack for winter fodder, commonly protected with thatch.
verb
- remove the thread (of screws)
- remove the surface from
- draw the last milk (of cows)
- remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely
- lay bare
- remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
- get undressed
- remove a constituent from a liquid
- remove substances from by a percolating liquid
- take away possessions from someone
- take off or remove
- strip the cured leaves from
- steal goods; take as spoils
- To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
- (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
- To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
- (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
- To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
- (transitive) To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.
- To remove the insulation from a wire/cable.
- (intransitive) To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.
- (transitive) To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
- (transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
- (transitive) To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
- (transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
- (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
- (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
- To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
- (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
- (transitive, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
- (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.
- (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
- (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
- To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
- (transitive) To remove cargo from (a container).
noun
- an airfield without normal airport facilities
- thin piece of wood or metal
- a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book
- a relatively long narrow piece of something
- a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- A landing strip.
- (fencing) The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
- (US) A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
- (countable) A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
- (slang) A strip club.
- (finance) 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 strip steak.
- (mining) A trough for washing ore.
- The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
- A comic strip.
- (television) 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.
- (UK, soccer) The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
- The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
- (usually countable, sometimes uncountable) A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
- (attributively, of games) Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.
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