Strand vs. Strip — What's the Difference?

Land, typically a beach, bordering a body of water.

To remove clothing or covering from

A complex of fibers or filaments that have been twisted together to form a cable, rope, thread, or yarn.

To remove or take off (clothing or covering)

A single filament, such as a fiber or thread, of a woven or braided material.

To remove an exterior coating, as of paint or varnish, from

A ropelike length of something

To remove the leaves from the stalks of (tobacco, for example).

A wisp or lock of hair.

To clear of a natural covering or growth; make bare

One of the elements woven together to make an intricate whole, such as the plot of a novel.

To deprive of possessions, office, rank, privileges, or honors; divest

To drive or run (a boat, for example) ashore or aground.

To rob of wealth or property; plunder or despoil

To cause (a whale or other sea animal) to be unable to swim free from a beach or from shallow water.

To remove equipment, furnishings, or accessories from

To bring into or leave in a difficult or helpless position

To remove nonessential detail from; reduce to essentials

(Baseball) To leave (a base runner) on base at the end of an inning.

To dismantle (a firearm, for example) piece by piece.

(Linguistics) To separate (a grammatical element) from other elements in a construction, either by moving it out of the construction or moving the rest of the construction. In the sentence What are you aiming at, the preposition at has been stranded.

To damage or break the threads of (a screw, for example) or the teeth of (a gear).

To be driven or run ashore or aground

To draw and discard the first drops of milk from the udder of (a cow or goat, for example) at the start of milking.

To be stranded, as on a beach. Used of sea animals.

To draw the last drops of milk from the udder of (a cow or goat, for example) at the end of milking.

To make or form (a rope, for example) by twisting strands together.

To extract the milt or roe from (a live fish).

To break a strand of (a rope, for example).

To draw in (a fishing line) by hand, as between casts with a fly rod.

The shore or beach of the sea or ocean; shore; beach.

To mount (a photographic positive or negative) on paper to be used in making a printing plate.

The shore or beach of a lake or river.

To undress completely.

A small brook or rivulet.

To perform a striptease.

A passage for water; gutter.

To fall away or be removed; peel

A street.

To cut or tear into strips.

Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.

A striptease.

A string.

A long narrow piece, usually of uniform width

An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.

A long narrow region of land or body of water.

(electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.

A comic strip.

(broadcasting) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.

An airstrip.

(figurative) An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.

An area, as along a busy street or highway, that is lined with a great number and variety of commercial establishments.

(genetics) A nucleotide chain.

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

To run aground; to beach.

A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.

To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.

A comic strip.

To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.

A landing strip.

(transitive) To break a strand of (a rope).

A strip steak.

(transitive) To form by uniting strands.

(US) A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.

One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.

(fencing) The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.

The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river.

The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.

To break a strand of (a rope).

(mining) A trough for washing ore.

To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship.

The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.

To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water.

(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.

A pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole;

(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.

Line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable

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

A necklace made by a stringing objects together;

Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.

A very slender natural or synthetic fiber

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

A poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)

To take off clothing.

A street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels

(intransitive) To perform a striptease.

Leave stranded or isolated withe little hope og rescue;

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

(transitive) To remove cargo from (a container).

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

(intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.

(transitive) To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.

(intransitive) To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.

(transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.

To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)

(transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).

(transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.

To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.

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 pare off the surface of (land) in strips.

(transitive) To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).

To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.

To remove the insulation from a wire/cable.

To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.

To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.

To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".

To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes; to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark.

To divest of clothing; to uncover.

To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.

To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.

To deprive of all milk; to milk dry; to draw the last milk from; hence, to milk with a peculiar movement of the hand on the teats at the last of a milking; as, to strip a cow.

To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.

To pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back; to strip away all disguisses.

To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped.

To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.

To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; - said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.

To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress.

A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land.

A trough for washing ore.

The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.

A relatively long narrow piece of something;

Artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material

An airfield without normal airport facilities

A sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book

Thin piece of wood or metal

A form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music;

Take away possessions from someone;

Get undressed;

Remove the surface from;

Remove substances from by a percolating liquid;

Lay bare;

Steal goods; take as spoils;

Remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely;

Strip the cured leaves from;

Remove the thread (of screws)

Remove a constituent from a liquid

Take off or remove;

Draw the last milk (of cows)

Remove (someone's or one's own) clothes;