noun
Meaning 1
A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- zebra stripes
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Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
stripe
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /stɹaɪp/
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Canada, General-American: /stɹaɪp/
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noun
Meaning 2
A long, relatively straight region against a different coloured background.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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.
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noun
Meaning 3
The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: in-plural
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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noun
Meaning 4
Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: 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.
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noun
Meaning 5
A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow or lash with a whip, stick, or scourge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 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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noun
Meaning 6
A slash cut into the flesh as a punishment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 7
A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, manufacturing, textiles, weaving
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noun
Meaning 8
Any of the balls marked with stripes in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the spots.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 9
A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
Meaning 10
The start/finish line.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, motor-racing, racing, sports
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verb
Meaning 11
To mark with stripes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 12
To lash with a whip or strap.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 13
To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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verb
Meaning 14
To record (a time code) onto videotape.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: broadcasting, media, television
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noun
Meaning 15
an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: band, banding
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: adornment
Narrower terms: cigar band, hatband, neckband, pinstripe
noun
Meaning 16
a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a green toad with small black stripes or bars
- may the Stars and Stripes forever wave
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: streak, bar
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: marking
Narrower terms: band, banding, stria, striation
noun
Meaning 17
a kind or category
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- businessmen of every stripe joined in opposition to the proposal
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Broader terms: kind, sort, form, variety
noun
Meaning 18
V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- they earned their stripes in Kuwait
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: chevron, stripes, grade insignia
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: badge
noun
Meaning 19
a piece of braid, usually on the sleeve, indicating military rank or length of service
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: badge
verb
Meaning 20
mark with stripes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: mark
History
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”).
Across languages
Translations
94 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Aramaic: ܚܛܘܼܛܵܐ (ḥăṭūṭā) — long straight region of a colour
- Aramaic: ܫܲܒܛܘܼܛܵܐ (šaḇṭūṭā) — long straight region of a colour
- Bashkir: һыҙыҡ (hıźıq) — long straight region of a colour
- Bashkir: һыҙат (hıźat) — long straight region of a colour
- Bulgarian: ивица (ivica) — long straight region of a colour
- Bulgarian: райе (raje) — long straight region of a colour
- Catalan: ratlla — long straight region of a colour
- Chinese Mandarin: 條紋 /条纹 (tiáowén) — long straight region of a colour
- Czech: pruh — long straight region of a colour
- Danish: stribe — long straight region of a colour
- Dutch: streep — long straight region of a colour
- Esperanto: strio — long straight region of a colour
- Estonian: triip — long straight region of a colour
- Finnish: raita — long straight region of a colour
- French: rayure — long straight region of a colour
- Galician: lista — long straight region of a colour
- Galician: banda — long straight region of a colour
- Galician: silva — long straight region of a colour
- German: Streifen — long straight region of a colour
- Greek: ράβδωση (rávdosi) — long straight region of a colour
- Greek: λωρίδα (lorída) — long straight region of a colour
- Hawaiian: niʻo — long straight region of a colour
- Hawaiian: ʻōniʻo — long straight region of a colour
- Hebrew: פַּס (pas) — long straight region of a colour
- Hungarian: csík — long straight region of a colour
- Hungarian: sáv — long straight region of a colour
- Hunsrik: Streife — long straight region of a colour
- Indonesian: belang — long straight region of a colour
- Indonesian: loreng — long straight region of a colour
- Indonesian: lurik — long straight region of a colour
- Irish: síog — long straight region of a colour
- Italian: striscia — long straight region of a colour
- Italian: banda — long straight region of a colour
- Italian: lista — long straight region of a colour
- Japanese: 縞 (shima) — long straight region of a colour
- Japanese: 筋 (suji) — long straight region of a colour
- Latin: linea — long straight region of a colour
- Latvian: svītra — long straight region of a colour
- Lithuanian: juosta — long straight region of a colour
- Malay: belang — long straight region of a colour
- Malay: jalur — long straight region of a colour
- Malay: pelang — long straight region of a colour
- Māori: tāeka — long straight region of a colour
- Māori: tore — long straight region of a colour
- Māori: ropi — long straight region of a colour
- Khiamniungan Naga: tìm-īe — long straight region of a colour
- Norwegian Bokmål: stripe — long straight region of a colour
- Norwegian Nynorsk: stripe — long straight region of a colour
- Polish: pasek — long straight region of a colour
- Portuguese: listra — long straight region of a colour
- Rarotongan: tore — long straight region of a colour
- Romanian: dungă — long straight region of a colour
- Russian: полоса́ (polosá) — long straight region of a colour
- Russian: поло́ска (polóska) — long straight region of a colour
- Samoan: tusi — long straight region of a colour
- Scottish Gaelic: srian — long straight region of a colour
- Serbo-Croatian: пруга — long straight region of a colour
- Serbo-Croatian: pruga — long straight region of a colour
- Shor: тор (tor) — long straight region of a colour
- Slovak: prúžok — long straight region of a colour
- Slovak: pruh — long straight region of a colour
- Spanish: franja — long straight region of a colour
- Spanish: raya — long straight region of a colour
- Spanish: línea — long straight region of a colour
- Spanish: lista — long straight region of a colour
- Swahili: mlia — long straight region of a colour
- Swedish: linje — long straight region of a colour
- Swedish: rand — long straight region of a colour
- Tahitian: tore — long straight region of a colour
- Telugu: చార (cāra) — long straight region of a colour
- Tongan: tuhi — long straight region of a colour
- Yiddish: פּאַס (pas) — long straight region of a colour
- Azerbaijani: sırma — badge
- Bulgarian: наши́вка (našívka) — badge
- Finnish: raidat — badge
- French: galon — badge
- Greek: γαλόνι (galóni) — badge
- Italian: galloni — badge
- Latvian: uzšuve — badge
- Portuguese: medalha — badge
- Portuguese: medalhas — badge
- Russian: наши́вка (našívka) — badge
- Russian: шевро́н (ševrón) — badge
- Spanish: galón — badge
- Finnish: juova — a long narrow mark
- Finnish: raita — a long narrow mark
- Ancient Greek: σμῶδιξ (smôdix) — a long narrow mark
- Ancient Greek: μώλωψ (mṓlōps) — a long narrow mark
- Māori: kārawarawa — a long narrow mark
- Bulgarian: раирам (rairam) — to mark with stripes
- Esperanto: strii — to mark with stripes
- Hawaiian: hoʻōniʻo — to mark with stripes
- Māori: whakatāwakawaka — to mark with stripes
- Portuguese: listrar — to mark with stripes
Real reading context