stripe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹaɪp/
ipa: /stɹaɪp/
rhymes: -aɪp
Forms: form: stripes
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”).
Senses: examples: text: zebra stripes
glosses: A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.
examples: 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.
glosses: A long, relatively straight region against a different coloured background.
glosses: The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
examples: 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.
glosses: Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.
examples: text: Thou most lying slave,
Whom stripes may move, not kindness!
ref: 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]:
text: Forty stripes he [the judge] may give him [the wicked man], and not exceed:
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 25:3:
text: 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;
text: Stones to eat and bitter water for their thirst, and stripes for tender nurture.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: 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.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 45:
glosses: A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow or lash with a whip, stick, or scourge.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 269:
text: [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.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 308:
glosses: A slash cut into the flesh as a punishment.
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
glosses: A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
glosses: Any of the balls marked with stripes in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the spots.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: The start/finish line.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from stripe (noun)
word: Árpád stripe
sense: Terms derived from stripe (noun)
word: candy stripe
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word: charity stripe
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word: earn one's stripes
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word: eye-stripe
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word: eyestripe
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word: go-faster stripe
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word: magnetic stripe
sense: Terms derived from stripe (noun)
word: of the same stripe
sense: Terms derived from stripe (noun)
word: pleating to the stripe
sense: Terms derived from stripe (noun)
word: show one's true stripes
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word: sooty stripe
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word: stripe-breasted tit
sense: Terms derived from stripe (noun)
word: striped
sense: Terms derived from stripe (noun)
word: stripy
sense: Terms derived from stripe (noun)
word: tiger of a different stripe
sense: Terms derived from stripe (noun)
word: tiger stripe
sense: Terms derived from stripe (noun)
word: true stripes