English Explanatory Dictionary

stripe

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.
  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. Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.
  5. A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow or lash with a whip, stick, or scourge.
  6. A slash cut into the flesh as a punishment.
  7. A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
  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.
  9. A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy.
  10. The start/finish line.
verb
  1. To mark with stripes.
  2. To lash with a whip or strap.
  3. To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.

Pronunciation

/stɹaɪp/ en-us-stripe.ogg en-ca-stripe.ogg

Word forms

stripe stripes striping striped

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”).

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 self-striping
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