Strip
Part of speech: noun
Definition: a long, thin piece of a bigger item a series of drawings, a comic strip a landing strip a street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters. (UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters. shortened form of striptease.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To remove or take away. To take off clothing. To do a striptease. To completely take away, to plunder. To remove the threads from a screw or the teeth from a gear. 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.) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
Example sentence: Strip malls are history.
Strap
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To beat or chastise with a strap; to whip, to lash.To fasten or bind with a strap.To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop; as, to strap a razor.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use.A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge of a razor; a strop.A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass. Specifically:The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.A shoulder strap, see under shoulder.A gun, normally a personal firearm such as a pistol or machine pistol.