Množina: strips

1. A narrow flat piece of material; SYN. slip.
2. A relatively long narrow piece of something
3. Thin piece of wood or metal.
4. A form of entertainment in which a dancer undresses to music; SYN. striptease.

1. To remove the surface from
2. To remove the thread (of screws).
3. To take off or remove; SYN. dismantle.
4. To take off or remove all one's clothes
5. To strip the cured leaves from
6. To remove a constituent from a liquid; in chemistry.
7. To draw the last milk (of cows).

Množina: strip chart recorders

A device used for the continuous graphic recording of time-dependent data.

Množina: strip croppings

Cultivation of crops in strips following the contours of the land to minimize erosion, the growing of a cultivated crop (as corn) in strips alternating with strips of a sod-forming crop (as hay) arranged to follow an approximate contour of the land and minimize erosion.

Množina: strip lightings

Long tubes (instead of bulbs) that produce light.

Množina: strip malls

A long usually one-story building or group of buildings housing several adjacent retail stores or service establishments

Množina: strip maps

Množina: strip mines

An open mine (usually for coal) where the seams run close to the surface.

To extract (ore) from a strip-mine; SYN. surface mine.

Množina: strip minings

Or open-pit mining; Mining from the surface rather than by tunneling underground. Coal, iron ore, and phosphates are often extracted by strip mining. Often the mineral deposit is covered by soil, which must first be stripped off, usually by large machines such as walking draglines and bucket-wheel excavators. The ore deposit is then broken up by explosives and collected from the surface.
One of the largest excavations in the world has been made by open-pit mining at the Bingham Canyon copper mine in Utah, measuring 2,590 ft/790 m deep and 2.3 mi/3.7 km across.The mining of ore or coal from an open mine; SYN. opencast mining.
Another term for opencast mining.

Množina: strip of woods

Množina: strip pokers

Poker in which a player's losses are paid by removing an article of clothing.

Množina: strip readers

Množina: strip searches

A search for something concealed on a person made after removal of the person's clothing