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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
stripping en · NOUN
Meanings
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The act of one who strips.
Never were cows that required such stripping.
1863, Elizabeth Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers:1879, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Sociology Volume II Part IV: Ceremonial Institutions
The mutual bows and courtesies […] are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive.
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A physical separation process where one or more components are removed from a liquid stream by a vapor stream
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The practice of stroking and compressing the teats or a cow to draw out the last of the milk.
In the train coming out a chap told me what ‘stripping’ was - getting the last drop of milk from the cow, otherwise the cow would dry up sooner than it should.
1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 26:
Forms
Deriveds
antistripping · dividend stripping · asset-stripping
stripping en · VERB
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of strip