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stripe

noun
/stɹaɪp/UK/stɹaɪp/CA

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”).

  1. derived from *strīpô✻
  2. derived from *strīpā✻
  3. derived from strîpe
  4. inherited from stripe

Definitions

  1. A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.

    • zebra stripes

  2. A long, relatively straight region against a different coloured background.

  3. The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.

  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. Distinguishing characteristic

      Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.

      • persons of the same political stripe
      • a tyrant of a very different stripe

    2. A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick

      A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow or lash with a whip, stick, or scourge.

      • 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;

    3. A slash cut into the flesh as a punishment.

      • 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.

    4. A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in…

      A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.

    5. Any of the balls marked with stripes in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot,…

      Any of the balls marked with stripes in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the spots.

    6. A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of…

      A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy.

    7. The start/finish line.

    8. To mark with stripes.

    9. To lash with a whip or strap.

      • 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.

    10. To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and…

      To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.

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Derived

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 · +2 more

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA