What's the difference between shred and strip?

Shred


Definition:

  • (n.) A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip.
  • (n.) In general, a fragment; a piece; a particle.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Shred
  • (n.) To cut or tear into small pieces, particularly narrow and long pieces, as of cloth or leather.
  • (n.) To lop; to prune; to trim.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
  • (2) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
  • (3) The shredded fibres were trimmed in most cases and this allowed better definition of the amount of ligament considered to be torn.
  • (4) Not to mention the files they may have already shredded.” One core problem is that too many expectations have been heaped on a trial that cannot bear them all.
  • (5) The dream has allowed us to ignore that our social safety net has been shredded into cobwebs, because the dream tells us that if we work hard enough, we won’t ever need a net.
  • (6) It only looks like a $100m movie.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest I think Britons of Poulter’s generation – now in their late teens and early 20s, spectators while the economic fiascos of recent years shredded their odds of financial stability in the future – are more inclined to be aware of money, and more inclined to be aware of its reckless use.
  • (7) Grilled cuttlefish on a bed of chestnut purée comes dramatically drizzled with black squid ink and shredded fried leek, while the innocuous-sounding champi con foie conceals mushroom, foie gras, creamy alioli (garlic mayonnaise) and a slick of salsa verde.
  • (8) This week Rogoff and Reinhart are fighting to salvage their reputations from the humiliating experience of having their paper torn to shreds.
  • (9) Yousef claims that no one can “produce a shred of evidence that Hamas formally encourages prejudice against anyone’s ethnicity”.
  • (10) All of that underscores the problem Republicans are faced with: how to repeal a law that touches nearly every facet of American healthcare, and insures an additional 20 million Americans, without shredding a fragile system.
  • (11) After all, the easiest way for a government to shred social security for disabled people is to present the argument that many are not actually disabled.
  • (12) The answer reveals much about the state of our world, the limitations of power and the extent to which the liberal interventionist vision articulated by Tony Blair during the Kosovo war in 1999 - of a world in which states could no longer murder their own people with impunity - lies in shreds.
  • (13) The thick and tender, rope-like tangle of braised, shredded beef in my fat fist of a burrito was excellent.
  • (14) Do people not realise that escape often seems impossible when every shred of a person’s personality, autonomy and well-being has been systematically eroded, or when children are involved?
  • (15) Required to "stay in touch" with Jobcentre Plus and explain what he's been doing since the collapse of RBS, Fred (the Shred) Goodwin might easily face benefit withdrawal.
  • (16) If the government had the tiniest indication, the tiniest shred of evidence that, not even that I was working for the Russian government, that I was associating with the Russian government, it would be on the front page of the New York Times by lunch time.
  • (17) The method was found applicable to several dry food materials including nonfat dry milk, dried egg albumin, cocoa, cottonseed flour, wheat flour, and shredded coconut.
  • (18) And it depends on the social consequences of the spending review standing the test of time better than the claims of fairness that Mr Osborne made in his June budget, claims which were shredded within hours by the Institute for Fiscal Studies .
  • (19) They proved to appear in case of oblique direction in overrunning and the angle of a shred turned back was directed to the side of wheel rotatory movements, i.e.
  • (20) (This is a statement that could be picked apart in so many ways that it would resemble a shredded couch after a herd of tigers had gone through by the time we were done with it.)

Strip


Definition:

  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To divest of clothing; to uncover.
  • (v. t.) To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.
  • (v. t.) To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped.
  • (v. t.) To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped.
  • (v. t.) To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
  • (v. t.) To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
  • (v. t.) To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
  • (v. i.) To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress.
  • (v. i.) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8.
  • (n.) A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land.
  • (n.) A trough for washing ore.
  • (n.) The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The cross sectional area of the aortic lumen was gradually decreased while the length of the stenotic lesion gradually increased by using strips with different width.
  • (2) Further, the maximal increase in force of contraction was measured using papillary muscle strips from some of these patients.
  • (3) S&P – the only one of the three major agencies not to have stripped the UK of its coveted AAA status – said it had been surprised at the pick-up in activity during 2013 – a year that began with fears of a triple-dip recession.
  • (4) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
  • (5) Circular muscle strips from the opossum esophageal body obtained 3-5 cm above the esophagogastric junction were suspended in organ baths for measurement of isometric tension.
  • (6) Survival and healing of "extremely severe" grade intoxication can only be obtained through a surgical intervention within the first hours; a laparotomy will indicate the depth of the lesions, which is not determined by endoscopy, and will consist of Celerier's stripping method and if necessary a gastrectomy, more seldom a cephalic duodeno-pancreatectomy.
  • (7) In goldfish intestine (perfused unstripped segments and mucosal strips) the serosal addition of ouabain (10(-4) M) resulted in a vanishment of the transepithelial potential difference and in a continuous increase in transepithelial resistance.
  • (8) Dopamine at concentrations over 10(-5)M induced contractions of tracheal muscle strips and repeated exposures resulted in desensitization (tachyphylaxis) of the muscle.
  • (9) Similar results with carbachol in the presence of 8-bromo cyclic AMP and IBMX were also found in rat right atrial strips which had been incubated with [3H]-noradrenaline.
  • (10) On guinea-pig lung strip the rank order of potency was U-46619 greater than Wy17186 much greater than PGF2 alpha greater than PGE2 and responses to all agonists tested were blocked by AH19437 but not by SC-19220.
  • (11) Glutathion and ascorbic acid interfere with the test strip method but this error is neglectable because of physiological low concentrations of these substances.
  • (12) We compared the effects of angiotensin II and endothelin on mass levels of 1,2-diacylglycerol, and endogenous activator of protein kinase C, in cultured rabbit vascular smooth muscle cells with the effects of these vasoconstrictors on contractile responses of rabbit aortic strips.
  • (13) It was found that within the dorsal part of the well known pressor area there is a narrow strip, 2.5 mm lateral from the mid line, starting ventral to the inferior colliculus and ending in the medulla close to the floor of the IV ventricle, from which vasodilatation in skeletal muscles is selectively obtained.
  • (14) The tinsel coiled around a jug of squash and bauble in the strip lighting made a golf-ball size knot of guilt burn in my throat.
  • (15) The effect of p-nitrophenylphosphate (p-NPP) on the release of acetylcholine evoked by drugs and ionic environments known to inhibit Na+, K+-ATPase was studied in isolated cortical slices of rat brain and longitudinal muscle strip of guinea-pig ileum.
  • (16) Experiments were performed in vitro on strips of diaphragmatic muscle obtained from 21 Syrian hamsters.
  • (17) Results obtained from a such study are here compared with levels obtained from a comparative determination of the metals in the mosses by three other techniques: Differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry (DPASV), Direct current plasma (atomic emission) spectroscopy (DCPS) and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectroscopy.
  • (18) In cholesterol stones and cholesterolosis specimens, relatively strong muscle strips had similar responses to 10(-6) M cholecystokinin-8 in normal calcium (2.5 mM) and in the absence of extracellular calcium.
  • (19) An evaluation of the Ames Leukostix reagent strips for the detection of leukocyte esterase activity in urine was undertaken to determine the interlot precision and between reader reliability, to compare Leukostix and Chemstrip LN results, and to determine if the Ames Leukostix reagent strip provides an alternative to, or supplement for, the microscopic detection of leukocytes.
  • (20) He was held there for another eight months in conditions that aroused widespread condemnation , including being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day and being made to strip naked at night.