Strip vs. Peel — What's the Difference?

To remove clothing or covering from

Remove the outer covering or skin from (a fruit, vegetable, or prawn)

To remove or take off (clothing or covering)

Remove a thin outer covering or part

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

(of a surface or object) lose parts of its outer layer or covering in small strips or pieces

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

Send (another player's ball) through a hoop

To clear of a natural covering or growth; make bare

The outer covering or rind of a fruit or vegetable

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

An act of exfoliating dead skin in the cosmetic treatment of microdermabrasion.

To rob of wealth or property; plunder or despoil

A flat implement like a shovel, especially one used by a baker for carrying loaves or similar items of food into or out of an oven

To remove equipment, furnishings, or accessories from

A small square defensive tower of a kind built in the 16th century in the border counties of England and Scotland.

To remove nonessential detail from; reduce to essentials

The skin or rind of certain fruits and vegetables.

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

A chemical peel.

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

A long-handled, shovellike tool used by bakers to move bread or pastries into and out of an oven.

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

(Printing) A T-shaped pole used for hanging up freshly printed sheets of paper to dry.

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

A fortified house or tower of a kind constructed in the borderland of Scotland and England in the 1500s.

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

To strip or cut away the skin, rind, or bark from; pare.

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

To strip away; pull off

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

To lose or shed skin, bark, or other covering.

To undress completely.

To come off in thin strips or pieces, as bark, skin, or paint

To perform a striptease.

(transitive) To remove the skin or outer covering of.

To fall away or be removed; peel

(transitive) To remove something from the outer or top layer of.

To cut or tear into strips.

(intransitive) To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.

A striptease.

(intransitive) To remove one's clothing.

A long narrow piece, usually of uniform width

(intransitive) To move, separate (off or away).

A long narrow region of land or body of water.

(curling) To play a peel shot.

A comic strip.

(croquet) To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).

An airstrip.

To plunder; to pillage, rob.

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

The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.

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

The action of peeling away from a formation.

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

(countable) A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.

A comic strip.

(obsolete) A stake.

A landing strip.

(obsolete) A fence made of stakes; a stockade.

A strip steak.

(archaic) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.

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

A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.

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

A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.

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

The blade of an oar.

(mining) A trough for washing ore.

An equal or match; a draw.

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

(curling) A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.

(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 small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.

(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 spadelike implement, variously used, as for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven; also, a T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar.

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

The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.

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

To plunder; to pillage; to rob.

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

To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange.

To take off clothing.

To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.

(intransitive) To perform a striptease.

To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; - often used with an adverb; as, the bark peels easily or readily.

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

To strip naked; to disrobe. Often used with down .

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

The tissue forming the hard outer layer (of e.g. a fruit)

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

British politician (1788-1850)

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

The rind of a fruit or vegetable

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

Strip the skin off;

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

Come off in flakes or thin small pieces;

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

Get undressed;

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;