stripe
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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”).
Inflected forms:
form: stripes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stripes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: striping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: striped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: striped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.
pos: noun
examples: zebra stripes
gloss: A long, relatively straight region against a different coloured background.
pos: noun
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.
gloss: The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: persons of the same political stripe
a tyrant of a very different 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.
gloss: A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow or lash with a whip, stick, or scourge.
pos: noun
examples: Thou most lying slave,
Whom stripes may move, not kindness!
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,
[Tyrants] at pleasure mark’d him with inglorious stripes;
Stones to eat and bitter water for their thirst, and stripes for tender nurture.
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.
gloss: A slash cut into the flesh as a punishment.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
[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.
gloss: A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of the balls marked with stripes in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the spots.
pos: noun
gloss: A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy.
pos: noun
gloss: The start/finish line.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: To mark with stripes.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To lash with a whip or strap.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To record (a time code) onto videotape.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: candy striper
restripe
Stars and Stripes
striped
striper
stripy
Derived words: Árpád stripe
bestriped
bluestripe
bootstripe
candy stripe
chalkstripe
charity stripe
destripe
earn one's stripes
eye-stripe
eyestripe
go-faster stripe
goldstripe
headstripe
hickory stripe
interstripe
magnetic stripe
magstripe
midstripe
multistripe
nanostripe
of the same stripe
pinstripe
pleating to the stripe
railroad stripe
show one's true stripes
sooty stripe
stripe bamboo
stripe-breasted tit
striped
stripeless
stripelike
stripeseed
stripetail
stripewise
stripey
stripy
tiger of a different stripe
tiger stripe
tigerstripe
true stripes
prestriped
self-striping
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