stripe

stripe

English

Etymology

Of Dutch or Low German origin, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German strīpe, from Proto-Germanic *stripan. See also Dutch strippen.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /stɹaɪp/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /stɹʌɪp/

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• Rhymes: -aɪp

Noun

stripe (plural stripes)

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.
   • 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 lighting bolt of intellect.

3. (in the plural) The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
4. (informal) Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.

   persons of the same political 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.

5. A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow with a whip or stick.
   • 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 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:

     Thou most lying slave,
     Whom stripes may move, not kindness!

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Deuteronomy 25:3:

     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;

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, OCLC 1167497017:

     Stones to eat and bitter water for their thirst, and stripes for tender nurture.

6. A slash cut into the flesh as a punishment.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 269:

     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.

7. (weaving) 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. (computing) A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy.
10. (motor racing, slang) The start/finish line.

Derived terms

Terms derived from stripe (noun)

• earn one's stripes
• eyestripe
• of the same stripe
• show one's true stripes
• striped
• stripy
• true stripes

 

Translations

long straight region of a colour

Bashkir: һыҙыҡ (hıðıq), һыҙат (hıðat) Bulgarian: ивица (bg) f (ivica), райе n (raje) Catalan: ratlla (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 條紋／条纹 (zh) (tiáowén) Czech: pruh (cs) m Danish: stribe c Dutch: streep (nl) f Esperanto: strio (eo) Estonian: triip Finnish: raita (fi) French: rayure (fr) f German: Streifen (de) m Greek: ράβδωση (el) f (rávdosi), λωρίδα (el) f (lorída) Hebrew: פַּס‎ (he) m (pas) Hungarian: csík (hu), sáv (hu) Hunsrik: Streife m Indonesian: belang (id), loreng (id), lurik (id) Irish: síog f Italian: striscia (it), banda (it), lista (it) Japanese: 縞 (ja) (しま, shima), 筋 (ja) (すじ, suji) Latin: linea f Latvian: svītra f Lithuanian: juosta (lt) f Malay: belang (ms), jalur, pelang Maori: tāeka Norwegian: Bokmål: stripe f Nynorsk: stripe f Polish: pasek (pl) m Portuguese: listra (pt) f Romanian: dungă (ro) Russian: полоса́ (ru) f (polosá), поло́ска (ru) f (polóska) Scottish Gaelic: srian f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пруга f Roman: pruga (sh) f Shor: тор (tor) Slovak: prúžok m, pruh m Spanish: franja (es), raya (es), línea (es), lista (es) Swahili: mlia class 3/4 Swedish: linje (sv) c, rand (sv) c Telugu: చార (te) (cāra) Yiddish: פּאַס‎ m (pas)

badge

Bulgarian: наши́вка (bg) f (našívka) Finnish: raidat (fi) pl French: galon (fr) m Greek: γαλόνι (el) n (galóni) Italian: galloni (it) pl Latvian: uzšuve f Portuguese: medalha (pt) f, medalhas f pl Russian: наши́вка (ru) f (našívka), шевро́н (ru) m (ševrón) Spanish: galón (es) m

a long narrow mark

Finnish: juova (fi), raita (fi) Greek: Ancient: σμῶδιξ f (smôdix), μώλωψ m (mṓlōps) Maori: kārawarawa

Verb

stripe (third-person singular simple present stripes, present participle striping, simple past and past participle striped)

1. (transitive) To mark with stripes.
2. (transitive) To lash with a whip or strap.
   • 2010, Susan Gore, A Blessing of Sunshine & Wrath, →ISBN, page 13:

     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.

   • 2012, Mark Fiege, The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States, →ISBN:

     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.

3. (transitive, computing) To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.

Related terms

• striped
• stripy
• Stars and Stripes
• striper
• candy striper
• restripe

Translations

to mark with stripes

Bulgarian: раирам (rairam) Maori: whakatāwakawaka Portuguese: listrar (pt)

Translations

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French: (please verify) rayer (fr)

Further reading

• stripe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• stripe in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• stripe at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Pitres, Presti, Priest, Sprite, esprit, pierst, priest, re-tips, respit, retips, ripest, sitrep, sprite, tripes

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Related to Old Norse strípaðr, stripóttr, stríprendr and strip n.

Noun

stripe f or m (definite singular stripa or stripen, indefinite plural striper, definite plural stripene)

1. a stripe
2. a strip

Derived terms

• flystripe
• Gazastripen
• kyststripe
• landingsstripe

References

• “stripe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Related to Old Norse strípaðr, stripóttr, stríprendr and strip n.

Noun

stripe f (definite singular stripa, indefinite plural striper, definite plural stripene)

1. a stripe
2. a strip

Derived terms

• flystripe
• Gazastripa
• kyststripe
• landingsstripe
• stripedelfin

 

References

• “stripe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.