stripe
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle Dutch or Middle Low German stripe, Dutch strippen
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /st(ʃ)ɹaɪp/
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /st(ʃ)ɹʌɪp/
Audio (GA) (file) Audio (Canada) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪp
NounEdit
stripe (plural stripes)
- A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.
- zebra stripes
- A long, relatively straight region against a different coloured background.
- 8 Sep 2019, Peter Conrad in The Guardian, Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser review – heavyweight study of a critical colossus
- At first, what mattered was the sparky contents of Sontag’s head; by the end she was best known for the way she wore her hair – that saturnine battle helmet of dyed black, with a single stripe left white at the temple like a Frankensteinian lighting bolt of intellect.
- 8 Sep 2019, Peter Conrad in The Guardian, Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser review – heavyweight study of a critical colossus
- (in the plural) The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
- (informal) Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.
- persons of the same political stripe
- 20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along?
- Everyone I spoke to had waved flags at Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding, had camped out for Diana’s funeral and, in some cases, her ill-fated wedding. (No one mentioned going to Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson’s now all-but forgotten wedding, and yet the awkward truth is that Harry and Meghan’s marriage is no more significant than that one was, in terms of lineage.) Not being a royalist of any stripe, I’d not been to any of those.
- A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow with a whip or stick.
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, Scene 2,[1]
- Thou most lying slave,
- Whom stripes may move, not kindness!
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Deuteronomy 25.3,[2]
- Forty stripes he [the judge] may give him [the wicked man], and not exceed:
- 1735, James Thomson, The Four Seasons, and Other Poems, London: J. Millan and A. Millar, “Winter,” lines 353-354, p. 21,[3]
- [Tyrants] at pleasure mark’d him with inglorious stripes;
- 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure[4]:
- Stones to eat and bitter water for their thirst, and stripes for tender nurture.
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, Scene 2,[1]
- (weaving) A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
- Any of the balls marked with stripes in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the spots.
- (computing) A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy.
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from stripe (noun)
TranslationsEdit
long straight region of a colour
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badge
a long narrow mark
VerbEdit
stripe (third-person singular simple present stripes, present participle striping, simple past and past participle striped)
- (transitive) To mark with stripes.
- (transitive) To lash with a whip or strap.
- 2010, Susan Gore, A Blessing of Sunshine & Wrath, →ISBN, page 13:
- I did try to ask questions and talk to Nanny but different things but that was considered "Talking back" or sassing which resulted in the striping of the legs or mashing of one's mouth, and then being put in the dark closet until the crying stopped.
- 2012, Mark Fiege, The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States, →ISBN:
- But when practice yielded no improvement, curses and the crack of a whip followed. Stripped, lying face down on the ground, Platt absorbed the master's rage, lash after lash striping his buttocks, shoulders, and back.
- (transitive, computing) To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.
TranslationsEdit
to mark with stripes
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Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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Further readingEdit
- stripe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- stripe in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- stripe at OneLook Dictionary Search
AnagramsEdit
- Pitres, Presti, Priest, Sprite, esprit, priest, re-tips, respit, retips, ripest, sitrep, sprite, tripes
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
Related to Old Norse strípaðr, stripóttr, stríprendr and strip n.
NounEdit
stripe f or m (definite singular stripa or stripen, indefinite plural striper, definite plural stripene)
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “stripe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
Related to Old Norse strípaðr, stripóttr, stríprendr and strip n.
NounEdit
stripe f (definite singular stripa, indefinite plural striper, definite plural stripene)
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “stripe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.