What's the difference between disrobe and peel?

Disrobe


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To divest of a robe; to undress; figuratively, to strip of covering; to divest of that which clothes or decorates; as, autumn disrobes the fields of verdure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The pitch on which Iceland train, favoured in the past by Monaco and Nantes for summer getaways, sits beneath Mont Veyrier and is cocooned a few hundred metres from pristine lakeside beaches and disrobed holidaymakers.
  • (2) His New York is a far scruffier place, with the grimy, old, Midnight Cowboy NYC rubbing against the gentrified Upper East Side, best expressed in an ordeal of a scene where Louie witnesses a virtuoso performance by a violinist while, behind the performer, an obese homeless man proceeds to disrobe and start washing himself with a bottle of filthy water.
  • (3) It is well documented that her eureka moment for founding Ultimo came at a rugby club dinner dance, when she found herself disrobing in the ladies’ because her cleavage-enhancing bra was so uncomfortable.
  • (4) In her first real adult role, her instincts were bang on: her performance was stunning enough without disrobing, and she won a Golden Globe and was Oscar nominated.
  • (5) In that scene, the angry Van Gaal disrobed in an attempt to make a point about why he substituted players, although confusion reigned.
  • (6) Thousands of blood pressure measurements are done daily without the patients' disrobing.
  • (7) As my team – the Tooting Torpedoes – disrobed in the changing area, I allowed myself a small throb of smugness.
  • (8) Three Femen activists disrobed in front of the ministry of justice in the Tunisian capital on Wednesday to protest against the jailing of a Tunisian member of the Ukrainian feminist group, quickly attracting an angry crowd.
  • (9) And because in it Natalie Portman disrobes and acts out a sex scene.
  • (10) Accommodation At Euro 96 the German side were based at the Mottram Hall Hotel near Wilmslow, Cheshire, where they shocked fellow residents by using the sauna while fully disrobed.
  • (11) Physically nonaggressive behaviors (e.g., pacing, disrobing inappropriately) correlated with cognitive impairment, fewer medical diagnoses, and absence of a hearing loss.
  • (12) The patients placed low cost markers at the time of disrobing.
  • (13) The officer just told me he was taking them to a police station,” Wilson said, recalling the beginning of a hunt for her family, “and that one of them was going to jail.” At Homan Square – which is not a police district station nor a jail, and does not generate public booking records during interrogation and detention, according to a recent deposition – the lawsuit states that Mann and Patrick were instructed to disrobe by a sergeant named Frank Ramaglia, then “subjected to a full strip search”.

Peel


Definition:

  • (n.) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To plunder; to pillage; to rob.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.
  • (v. i.) 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.
  • (n.) The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A "peeling" technique was used to estimate the time constants (tau 0 and tau 1) and coefficients (a0 and a1) of the first two exponential terms of the series of exponential terms whose sum represented the slope of the voltage response.
  • (2) Turn the sponge out onto the paper, then carefully peel off the lining paper.
  • (3) Add the onion, cook for three minutes, stirring, until softened, then add the wine, sage, lemon peel, lemon juice and 150ml water.
  • (4) Certain advantages over chemical peeling and dermabrasion used singly or together in different areas of the face are pointed out.
  • (5) The main lesions of the tegument included indistinct of the matrix, vacuolization and peeling, while vacuolization of perinuclear cytoplasma in tegumental cells, focus lysis in muscle bundles, and destruction in collection ducts and flame cells were also seen.
  • (6) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
  • (7) The technique requires only three major steps: (1) decortication limited to the parietal sides of the peel's sac, (2) cleansing the empyemic cavity, and (3) drainage.
  • (8) Such prosecretory granules, large and irregular in shape, "peeled off" from the stacks of saccules with residual saccular or tubular structures still attached to them, some of the latter forming trans-tubular networks.
  • (9) Despite huge uncertainties over their ability to pay for carbon capture and storage technology, [Peel subsidiary] Ayrshire Power has decided to go ahead with these plans and call Labour's bluff.
  • (10) Soft organic material (meat, cucumber peels) was found in four patients, chicken bones in six, pins and needles in six, other nonorganic materials (toys, stone, broken thermometer) in six.
  • (11) 3 For the smoked mackerel pate, peel the sweet potato and chop into cubes.
  • (12) The major benefit of the peeling technique is the preservation of an intact posterior capsule.
  • (13) However, even if you prefer Marmite to marmalade on your toast, citrus peel is a powerful tool in the kitchen, especially at this time of year, when bright, fresh flavours are at a premium.
  • (14) In addition, patterns which have been considered more characteristic of in vivo demyelinative lesions have been found, susch as vesicular disruption of myelin lamellae and peeling off and phagocytosis of myelin by phagocytic mononuclear cells with electron dense cytoplasm.
  • (15) In addition to the increased calcium leachability, the dentin bonding agent peeled off with time from the dentin discs.
  • (16) PriyaKannath via GuardianWitness Makes 2-3 glasses ½ medium beetroot 1 medium carrot 1 celery stalk 1 apple 125g cooked brown rice 1 Peel and roughly chop the beetroot, carrot, celery and apple, and put in a smoothie maker or blender along with the rice and about 300ml water.
  • (17) Songwriter Dan Bull urged BBC bosses in Dear Auntie (An Open Letter to the BBC) : "You need to appeal to the people that feel John Peel, and want to keep it real.
  • (18) 2 Puree together the pomegranate jewels and the peeled satsumas.
  • (19) Incorporation of the stock diet to the peel diet resulted in a slight increase which amounted to 6% in both male and female rat groups.
  • (20) There were no signs of valvular stenosis, exuberant peel formation, or calcification of the conduit in any of the patients.