Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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Quote:I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
[Georgia O'Keeffe]Definitions of: stripDefinition: 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.Definition: To divest of clothing; to uncover. Definition: To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc. Definition: To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips. Definition: 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. Definition: To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip. Definition: 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. Definition: To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped. Definition: To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped. Definition: To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action. Definition: To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged. Definition: To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into “hands”; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves). Definition: A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land. Definition: A trough for washing ore. Definition: The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion. |
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