stripe en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /stɹaɪp/ (Canada, General-American)
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- /stɹaɪp/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From Middle English stripe, strype, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German strîpe, from Proto-West Germanic *strīpā, *strīpō, from Proto-Germanic *strīpô. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Striepe (“stripe, strip”), West Frisian stripe (“stripe”), Dutch streep (“stripe”), German Low German Striepe, Striep, Streep (“stripe”), German Streifen (“stripe, strip, band”), Danish stribe (“stripe”).
Meanings
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A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.
zebra stripes
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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 lightning bolt of intellect.
- (in-plural) The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
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(informal) Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.
a tyrant of a very different stripe
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.
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A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow or lash with a whip, stick, or scourge.
Stones to eat and bitter water for their thirst, and stripes for tender nurture.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:A certain Abbé Chuppe d'Auteroche [...] asserted that in Russia, the vapor baths, stripes were administered to the frequenters as a stimulus to the venereal appetite.
1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 45:Thou most lying slave, Whom stripes may move, not kindness!
1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:When a youth of twelve years, - since, as Solomon says, "The root of learning is bitter, although the fruit is sweet - and following his literary pursuits, in order to avoid the discipline and frequent stripes inflicted on him by his preceptor, he ran away, and concealed himself under the hollow bank of a river[.]
1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 191:Forty stripes he [the judge] may give him [the wicked man], and not exceed:
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 25:3:1735, James Thomson, 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;
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A slash cut into the flesh as a punishment.
[At the Saturnalia] not even a word of reproof would be administered to him [a slave] for conduct which at any other season might have been punished with stripes, imprisonment, or death.
1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 308:But if there were any one who tried and could not make her laugh, he would have three red stripes cut out of his back and salt rubbed into them and, sad to relate, there were many sore backs in that kingdom.
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 269:
- 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.
- A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy.
- (slang) The start/finish line.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| stripes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
chalkstripe (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · bluestripe (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · tiger of a different stripe (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · destripe (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · eye-stripe (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · stripe-breasted tit (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · earn one's stripes (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · tigerstripe (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · stripy (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · hickory stripe (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · eyestripe (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · bestriped (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · interstripe (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · tiger stripe (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · sooty stripe (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · stripe bamboo (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · of the same stripe (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · stripeseed (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · stripeless (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · goldstripe (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · show one's true stripes (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · stripetail (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · candy stripe (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · racing stripe (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · racer stripe (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · midstripe (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · pinstripe (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · bootstripe (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · magnetic stripe (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · go-faster stripe (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · railroad stripe (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · charity stripe (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · stripey (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · headstripe (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · stripewise (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · true stripes (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · multistripe (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · stripelike (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · nanostripe (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · pleating to the stripe (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · magstripe (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · striped (Terms derived from stripe (noun)) · Árpád stripe (Terms derived from stripe (noun))
Translations (89)
da stribe (long straight region of a colour) · nn stripe (long straight region of a colour) · te చార (long straight region of a colour) · sm tusi (long straight region of a colour) · lt juosta (long straight region of a colour) · id loreng (long straight region of a colour) · es lista (long straight region of a colour) · az sırma (badge) · ca ratlla (long straight region of a colour) · pt medalha (badge) · ms belang (long straight region of a colour) · mi kārawarawa (a long narrow mark) · fi raita (a long narrow mark) · es franja (long straight region of a colour) · fi raidat (badge) · gd srian (long straight region of a colour) · ru шевро́н (badge) · haw ʻōniʻo (long straight region of a colour) · grc σμῶδιξ (a long narrow mark) · he פַּס (long straight region of a colour) · ru наши́вка (badge) · bg наши́вка (badge) · pt listra (long straight region of a colour) · ga síog (long straight region of a colour) · eo strio (long straight region of a colour) · hrx Streife (long straight region of a colour) · bg ивица (long straight region of a colour) · it banda (long straight region of a colour) · it lista (long straight region of a colour) · sv rand (long straight region of a colour) · syc ܫܲܒܛܘܼܛܵܐ (long straight region of a colour) · haw niʻo (long straight region of a colour) · fi raita (long straight region of a colour) · nl streep (long straight region of a colour) · sh пруга (long straight region of a colour) · de Streifen (long straight region of a colour) · sw mlia (long straight region of a colour) · it striscia (long straight region of a colour) · nb stripe (long straight region of a colour) · mi tāeka (long straight region of a colour) · la linea (long straight region of a colour) · es galón (badge) · hu csík (long straight region of a colour) · syc ܚܛܘܼܛܵܐ (long straight region of a colour) · to tuhi (long straight region of a colour) · gl lista (long straight region of a colour) · sk prúžok (long straight region of a colour) · sh pruga (long straight region of a colour) · el γαλόνι (badge) · ja 筋 (long straight region of a colour) · kix tìm-īe (long straight region of a colour) · ba һыҙыҡ (long straight region of a colour) · lv uzšuve (badge) · ro dungă (long straight region of a colour) · es raya (long straight region of a colour) · cmn 條紋 /条纹 (long straight region of a colour) · el λωρίδα (long straight region of a colour) · ja 縞 (long straight region of a colour) · cjs тор (long straight region of a colour) · grc μώλωψ (a long narrow mark) · rar tore (long straight region of a colour) · pt medalhas (badge) · pl pasek (long straight region of a colour) · fr rayure (long straight region of a colour) · mi tore (long straight region of a colour) · sv linje (long straight region of a colour) · sk pruh (long straight region of a colour) · ty tore (long straight region of a colour) · ms jalur (long straight region of a colour) · fr galon (badge) · bg райе (long straight region of a colour) · es línea (long straight region of a colour) · ru полоса́ (long straight region of a colour) · mi ropi (long straight region of a colour) · gl silva (long straight region of a colour) · et triip (long straight region of a colour) · id belang (long straight region of a colour) · ms pelang (long straight region of a colour) · id lurik (long straight region of a colour) · yi פּאַס (long straight region of a colour) · lv svītra (long straight region of a colour) · cs pruh (long straight region of a colour) · it galloni (badge) · fi juova (a long narrow mark) · hu sáv (long straight region of a colour) · el ράβδωση (long straight region of a colour) · ba һыҙат (long straight region of a colour) · gl banda (long straight region of a colour) · ru поло́ска (long straight region of a colour)