different between circle vs strip

English

Etymology

From Middle English circle, cercle, from Old French cercle and Latin circulus, diminutive of Latin circus (“circle, circus”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (kírkos, “circle, ring”), related to Old English hring (“ring”). Compare also Old English ?ircul (“circle, zodiac”), which came from the same Latin source.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sûr?-k?l, IPA^(key): /?s??k?l/
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [?s??.k??]
  • (US) IPA^(key): [?s?.k??]
• Rhymes: -??(?)k?l
• Homophone: cercal
• Hyphenation: cir?cle

Noun

circle (plural circles)

1. (geometry) A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from a given point (center).

   Synonyms: (not in mathematical use) coil, (not in mathematical use) ring, (not in mathematical use) loop

2. A two-dimensional geometric figure, a disk, consisting of the set of all those points of a plane at a distance less than or equal to a fixed distance (radius) from a given point.

   Synonyms: disc, (in mathematical and general use) disk, (not in mathematical use; UK & Commonwealth only) round

3. Any shape, curve or arrangement of objects that approximates to or resembles the geometric figures.

   Children, please join hands and form a circle.

   1. Any thin three-dimensional equivalent of the geometric figures.

   2. A curve that more or less forms part or all of a circle.

4. A specific group of persons; especially one who shares a common interest.

   Synonyms: bunch, gang, group

   • At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

   • “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, […], the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"

   • 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

     The Rabbit could not claim to be a model of anything, for he didn’t know that real rabbits existed; he thought they were all stuffed with sawdust like himself, and he understood that sawdust was quite out-of-date and should never be mentioned in modern circles.

5. The orbit of an astronomical body.
6. (cricket) A line comprising two semicircles of 30 yards radius centred on the wickets joined by straight lines parallel to the pitch used to enforce field restrictions in a one-day match.
7. (Wicca) A ritual circle that is cast three times deosil and closes three times widdershins either in the air with a wand or literally with stones or other items used for worship.
8. (South Africa) A traffic circle or roundabout.
9. (obsolete) Compass; circuit; enclosure.
10. (astronomy) An instrument of observation, whose graduated limb consists of an entire circle. When fixed to a wall in an observatory, it is called a mural circle; when mounted with a telescope on an axis and in Y's, in the plane of the meridian, a meridian or transit circle; when involving the principle of reflection, like the sextant, a reflecting circle; and when that of repeating an angle several times continuously along the graduated limb, a repeating circle.
11. A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.

    • Thus in a circle runs the peasant's pain.

12. (logic) A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning.
    • 1661, Joseph Glanvill, The Vanity of Dogmatizing

      That heavy bodies descend by gravity; and, again, that gravity is a quality whereby a heavy body descends, is an impertinent circle and teaches nothing.

13. Indirect form of words; circumlocution.
    • 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist

      Has he given the lie, / In circle, or oblique, or semicircle.

14. A territorial division or district.

15. (in the plural) A bagginess of the skin below the eyes from lack of sleep.

Derived terms

Related terms

• circular
• circulate
• circus

Descendants

• Pitcairn-Norfolk: sirkil

Translations

Verb

circle (third-person singular simple present circles, present participle circling, simple past and past participle circled)

1. (transitive) To travel around along a curved path.

   The wolves circled the herd of deer.
2. (transitive) To surround.

   A high fence circles the enclosure.

   • 1699, William Dampier, Voyages and Descriptions

     Their heads are circled with a short turban.

   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Dungeon

     So he lies, circled with evil.

3. (transitive) To place or mark a circle around.

   Circle the jobs that you are interested in applying for.

4. (intransitive) To travel in circles.

   Vultures circled overhead.

Derived terms

• circle the drain

Translations

Anagrams

• cleric

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: str?p, IPA^(key): /st??p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From alteration of stripe or from Middle Low German strippe

Noun

strip (chiefly countable, plural strips)

1. (countable) A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.

   The countries were in dispute over the ownership of a strip of desert about 100 metres wide.

2. (usually countable, sometimes uncountable) A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
3. A comic strip.
4. A landing strip.
5. A strip steak.
6. (US) A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
7. (sport of fencing) The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
8. (Britain, soccer) The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
9. (mining) A trough for washing ore.
10. The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Farrow to this entry?)

11. (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.

Hyponyms

• (long, thin piece of bacon): rasher

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English strepen, strippen, from Old English str?epan (“plunder”). Probably related to German Strafe (“deprivation, fine, punishment”)

Verb

strip (third-person singular simple present strips, present participle stripping, simple past and past participle stripped)

1. (transitive) To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.

2. (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.

   Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.
3. (intransitive) To perform a striptease.

   In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping.

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

   The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test.

   They had stripped the forest bare, with not a tree left standing.

   • They stript Joseph out of his coat.

   • 1856, Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI

     He was obliged to sell his silver piece by piece; next he sold the drawing-room furniture. All the rooms were stripped; but the bedroom, her own room, remained as before.

   • 2013, Paul Harris, Lance Armstrong faces multi-million dollar legal challenges after confession (in The Guardian, 19 January 2013)[4]

     After the confession, the lawsuits. Lance Armstrong's extended appearance on the Oprah Winfrey network, in which the man stripped of seven Tour de France wins finally admitted to doping, has opened him up to several multi-million dollar legal challenges.

5. (transitive) To remove cargo from (a container).
6. (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.

   Don't tighten that bolt any more or you'll strip the thread.

   The screw is stripped.

7. (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
8. (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
9. (transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
10. (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
11. (transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
12. To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
13. (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.
14. (transitive, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
15. (transitive) To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
16. (transitive, obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
    • 1618, Georege Chapman, A Hymn to Apollo

      when first they stripp'd the Malean promontory

    • Before he reached it he was out of breath, / And then the other stript him.

17. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
18. To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
19. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
20. To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

Conjugation

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:strip.

Synonyms

• deprive
• peel
• uncover

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

strip (plural strips)

1. The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.

   She stood up on the table and did a strip.

2. (attributively, of games) Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.

   strip poker; strip Scrabble

   • 1980, Victor Miller, Friday the 13th (film)

     We're going to play Strip Monopoly.

   • 20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along?

     What was going to happen to this cheeky boy, suddenly deprived of his fun-loving mother, and left with his cold father who barely touched him at her funeral? For a long time – a Nazi uniform here, a game of strip billiards there – it looked like the answer was: nothing good.

Derived terms

• strip poker

Translations

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989
• Funk&Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary

Further reading

• strip on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Strip in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• TRIPS, spirt, sprit, stirp, trips

Dutch

Etymology

From English strip.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

strip m (plural strips, diminutive stripje n)

1. strip (long thin piece)
2. comic (a cartoon story)

Synonyms

• (strip): strook
• (comic): beeldverhaal

Derived terms

• striptekenaar

Verb

strip

1. first-person singular present indicative of strippen
2. imperative of strippen

Portuguese

Noun

strip m (plural strips)

1. Abbreviation of striptease.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English strip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strîp/

Noun

str?p m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. comic (a cartoon story)

Declension