pluck vs strip

pluck

verb
  • To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation. 

  • To pull something sharply; to pull something out 

  • To pull or twitch sharply. 

  • To remove feathers from a bird. 

  • To play a string instrument pizzicato. 

  • To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc. 

  • Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing. 

noun
  • Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence. 

  • The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals. 

  • An instance of plucking or pulling sharply. 

  • Cheap wine. 

strip

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

  • To perform a striptease. 

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

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

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

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

  • 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. 

  • To remove the insulation from a wire/cable. 

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

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

  • To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves). 

  • To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color. 

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

  • To remove cargo from (a container). 

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

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

  • To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes. 

  • To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel. 

  • To take off clothing. 

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

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

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

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

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

  • The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters. 

  • A strip steak. 

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

  • A trough for washing ore. 

  • 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 landing strip. 

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

  • A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area. 

  • A comic strip. 

  • A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities. 

  • 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. 

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