stripe
UK/stɹaɪp//stɹaɪp/
stripe noun: a long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.
Noun
stripe (plural stripes)
- A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.
- zebra stripes
- 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...
- 8 Sep 2019, Peter Conrad in The Guardian, Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser review – heavyweight study of a critical colossus
- The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
- Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.
- persons of the same political stripe
- a tyrant of a very different stripe
- 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!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... - 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
- Thou most lying slave,
- 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.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 269
- [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
- 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.
- The start/finish line.
Verb
stripe (third-person singular simple present stripes, present participle striping, simple past and past participle striped)
- To mark with stripes.
- To lash with a whip or strap.
- 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.2010, Susan Gore, A Blessing of Sunshine & Wrath, →ISBN, page 13
- 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.2012, Mark Fiege, The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States, →ISBN
- To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.
- To record (a time code) onto videotape.
stripe meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam
stripe in Urdu
- چابک سے پٹائی, دھاری, پٹی, چابک مارنا, دھاری ڈالنا, پٹی ڈالنا
stripe in Bengali
- ডোরা, রেখা, লম্বা দাগ
stripe in Telugu
- long straight region of a colour
- చార cāra
stripe in Malayalam
- band, line, strip
- വരപ്പുള്ളി, വര, രേഖ, വർണ്ണരേഖ, നാട, കര
More languagesFewer languages
- stripe in Kannada
- ಬರೆ, ಸೀರು
- stripe in Odia
- ଷ୍ଟ୍ରାଇପ୍
- stripe in Assamese
- কাপ kap
- stripe in Malay
- belang, jalur, pelang
- stripe in Indonesian
- belang, loreng, lurik
Examples of stripe in a sentence
- 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:
Forms of stripe
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | stripes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | stripes |
| present participle | striping |
| past participle | striped |
| past | striped |
Origin of stripe
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”).
Words formed from stripe
- 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
- racer stripe
- racing 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
Phrases with stripe
Words that rhyme with stripe
Questions about stripe
- What does stripe mean?
- Stripe means a long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.
- What is stripe in Urdu?
- Stripe in Urdu is چابک سے پٹائی, دھاری, پٹی. See Stripe meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use stripe in a sentence?
- Stones to eat and bitter water for their thirst, and stripes for tender nurture.
- What part of speech is stripe?
- Stripe can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce stripe?
- Stripe is pronounced /stɹaɪp/ (UK).
- What is the plural of stripe?
- The plural of stripe is stripes.
Words near stripe in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: stripe (page history and authors); stripe (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stripe (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stripe (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); stripe (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stripe (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); কাপ (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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