Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A piece or strip, as of skin or vegetable rind, that has been peeled off.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of stripping off the skin, rind, or bark of a thing; the stripping off of an outer covering or rind.
- noun That which is stripped off; rind, peel or skin stripped from the object which it covered or to which it belonged: as, potato-peelings.
- noun In printing, the art or act of removing from an impression-surface one or more layers of a paper overlay, to make a lighter impression.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
removing theouter surface instrips . - noun
Strips of an outerrind or surface that has been removed. - verb Present participle of
peel .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales
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Examples
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Once all the tomatoes have been blanched, begin peeling and crushing them.
Big Girls, Small Kitchen: Canning My Fear of Canning Tomatoes Big Girls 2010
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Once all the tomatoes have been blanched, begin peeling and crushing them.
Big Girls, Small Kitchen: Canning My Fear of Canning Tomatoes Big Girls 2010
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Once all the tomatoes have been blanched, begin peeling and crushing them.
Big Girls, Small Kitchen: Canning My Fear of Canning Tomatoes Big Girls 2010
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And, as Gibney adroitly shows in peeling away the layers, cheating is rarely mentioned or suspected because the appearance of purity makes it hard for most observers to even conceive of.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Freakonomics Marshall Fine 2010
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Once all the tomatoes have been blanched, begin peeling and crushing them.
Big Girls, Small Kitchen: Canning My Fear of Canning Tomatoes Big Girls 2010
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But the ancient man doing the peeling is unaware of the chemical composition of onion cells.
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But the ancient man doing the peeling is unaware of the chemical composition of onion cells.
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Next door to UN headquarters, 40 teenagers are sitting on rickety wooden chairs in a Catholic-mission library, where paint is peeling from the walls.
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But the ancient man doing the peeling is unaware of the chemical composition of onion cells.
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And, as Gibney adroitly shows in peeling away the layers, cheating is rarely mentioned or suspected because the appearance of purity makes it hard for most observers to even conceive of.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Freakonomics Marshall Fine 2010
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