stripe
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
stripe (plural stripes)
- A long, relatively straight region of a single colour.
- zebra stripes
- (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.
- circa 1611 William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, Scene 2,
- Thou most lying slave,
- Whom stripes may move, not kindness!
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Deuteronomy 25.3,
- Forty stripes he [the judge] may give him [the wicked man], and not exceed:
- 1735, James Thomson (poet, born 1700), The Four Seasons, and Other Poems, London: J. Millan and A. Millar, “Winter,” lines 353-354, p. 21,
- [Tyrants] at pleasure mark’d him with inglorious stripes;
- circa 1611 William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, Scene 2,
- (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.
- French: rayure
- German: Streifen
- Italian: striscia, banda, lista
- Portuguese: listra
- Russian: полоса́
- Spanish: franja, raya, línea, lista
stripe (stripes, present participle striping; past and past participle striped)
- (transitive) To mark with stripes.
- (transitive) To lash with a whip or strap.
- (transitive, computing) To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.
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