different between scrape vs strip

English

Etymology

From Middle English scrapen, from Old Norse skrapa (“to scrape, scratch”) and Old English scrapian (“to scrape, scratch”), both from Proto-Germanic *skrap?n?, *skrepan? (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skreb- (“to engrave”). Cognate with Dutch schrapen (“to scrape”), schrappen (“to strike through; to cancel; to scrap”), schrabben (“to scratch”), German schrappen (“to scrape”), Danish skrabe (“to scrape”), Icelandic skrapa (“to scrape”), Walloon screper (“to scrape”), Latin scrib? (“dig with a pen, draw, write”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: skr?p, IPA^(key): /sk?e?p/
• Rhymes: -e?p

Verb

scrape (third-person singular simple present scrapes, present participle scraping, simple past and past participle scraped)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.

2. (transitive) To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.

3. (transitive) To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
4. (transitive) To barely manage to achieve.

5. (transitive) To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.

6. (computing) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
7. (intransitive) To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
8. (transitive, intransitive) To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
9. To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
10. To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; usually with down.
    • 1841, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Warren Hastings

      All the various kinds of interest which 80 strongly against the accused , that his friends belong to the near and to the distant , to the were coughed and scraped down.

Synonyms

• (draw an object along while exerting pressure): grate, scratch, drag
• (injure by scraping): abrade, chafe, graze

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

scrape (countable and uncountable, plural scrapes)

1. A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).

2. A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.

3. An awkward set of circumstances.
4. (Britain, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
   • 1972, in U.S. Senate Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, Abuse of psychiatry for political repression in the Soviet Union. Hearing, Ninety-second Congress, second session, United States Government Printing Office, page 127,

     It’s quite possible, in view of the diagnosis ‘danger of miscarriage’, that they might drag me off, give me a scrape and then say that the miscarriage began itself.

   • 1980, John Cobb, Babyshock: A Mother’s First Five Years, Hutchinson, page 232,

     In expert hands abortion nowadays is almost the same as having a scrape (D & C) and due to improved techniques such as suction termination, and improved lighter anaesthetic, most women feel no worse than having a tooth out.

   • 1985, Beverley Raphael, The Anatomy of Bereavement: a handbook for the caring professions, Routledge, ?ISBN, page 236,

     The loss is significant to the woman and will be stated as such by her. For her it is not “nothing,” “just a scrape,” or “not a life.” It is the beginning of a baby. Years later, she may recall it not just as a miscarriage but also as a baby that was lost.

   • 1999, David Jenkins, Listening to Gynaecological Patients\ Problems, Springer, ?ISBN, page 16,

     17.Have you had a scrape or curettage recently?

5. A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
   • 1948, in Behaviour: An International Journal of Comparative Ethology, E. J. Brill, page 103,

     We knew from U. Weidmann’s work (1956) that Black-headed Gulls could be prevented from laying by offering them eggs on the empty scrape veil before […]

   • 2000, Charles A. Taylor, The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia, Kingfisher Publications, ?ISBN, page 85,

     The plover lays its eggs in a scrape on the ground. ¶ […] ¶ Birds’ nests can be little more than a scrape in the ground or a delicate structure of plant material, mud, and saliva.

   • 2006, Les Beletsky, Birds of the World, Johns Hopkins University Press, ?ISBN, page 95,

     Turkey females place their eggs in a shallow scrape in a hidden spot on the ground. Young are born ready to leave the nest and feed themselves (eating insects for their first few weeks).

6. (military) A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
   • 2014, Harry Turtledove, Hitler's War

     In between rounds, he dug a scrape for himself with his entrenching tool.

7. (Britain, slang, obsolete) A shave.
   • 1945, Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire (page 66)

     A'm goin to the barber's for a scrape.

8. (uncountable, Britain, slang, obsolete) Cheap butter.
9. (uncountable, Britain, slang, obsolete) Butter laid on bread in the thinnest possible manner, as though laid on and scraped off again.

Quotations

• 2001, Carolyn Cooke, The Bostons, Houghton Mifflin Books, ?ISBN, page 172–173,

  He could hear deer moo in the woods, smell their musk, spot a scrape in a birch tree twenty feet away.

• 2005, Dragan Vujic, Hunting Farm Country Whitetails, iUniverse, ?ISBN, page 58,

  Female whitetails periodically investigate scrapes created by specific bucks. As the doe approaches estrus and becomes receptive to breeding, she will urinate in a scrape as a sharp signal to the buck that she is ready for him.

Synonyms

• (injury): abrasion, graze
• (fight): altercation, brawl, fistfight, fight, fisticuffs, punch-up, scuffle
• (awkward set of circumstances): bind, fix, mess, pickle
• See also Thesaurus:injury

Derived terms

• bread and scrape

Translations

References

• (a shave; butter): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• CASREP, Casper, Pacers, Scaper, capers, crapes, e-scrap, escarp, pacers, parsec, recaps, scaper, secpar, spacer

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