stripe
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EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle Dutch or Middle Low German stripe, Dutch strippen)
NounEdit
stripe (plural stripes)
- A long, straight region of a single colour.
- (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
- A long narrow mark left by striking with a lash or rod; by extension, such a stroke.
- Bible, Deuteronomy xxv. 3
- Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed.
- Thomson
- Cruelty marked him with inglorious stripes.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2
- Thou most lying slave, / Whom stripes may move, not kindness!
- Bible, Deuteronomy xxv. 3
- (weaving) A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from stripe (noun)
TranslationsEdit
long straight region of a colour
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badge
VerbEdit
stripe (third-person singular simple present stripes, present participle striping, simple past and past participle striped)
- (transitive) To mark with stripes.
- (transitive, computing) To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.
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External linksEdit
- stripe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- stripe in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- stripe at OneLook Dictionary Search