stripe
IPA: strˈaɪp
noun
- A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.
- A long, relatively straight region against a different coloured background.
- (in the plural) The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
- (informal) Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.
- A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow with a whip or stick.
- A slash cut into the flesh as a punishment.
- (weaving) 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.
- (computing) A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy.
- (motor racing, slang) The start/finish line.
verb
- (transitive) To mark with stripes.
- (transitive) To lash with a whip or strap.
- (transitive, computing) To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.
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Examples of "stripe" in Sentences
- The stripes symbolize the rainbow.
- The width of the stripes is unequal.
- Do all zebras have the same stripe pattern
- The shirt was striped with red and yellow lines.
- The pattern on all the other subspecies is striped.
- In the center of the white band, there is a red stripe.
- The three stripe pattern is applied to the side of the pants.
- The striped pattern repeats some within the interior portion of the dome.
- The red stripe is the path Von Stauffenberg would take to the meeting room.
- The stripe from the left side of the collar extends down to the side of the shirt.
- The idea that play of any stripe is always an irrelevant diversion is a misconception.
- The excluded stripe is turquoise in colour and is taking it ` s case to the European Court of Human Rights.
- All the inference is that without your pin stripe suit and your four hand tie, you are beneath his contempt.
- No yellow anymore -- just black highlighted with a jagged blue stripe from the fingers of one hand to the fingers of the other.
- That wheat-colored ball with the blue stripe is the same size and weight as an NFL ball, and the players wear standard football gear.
- The person who worked on it second passed on the brown stripe from the narrow inner border to me, and although I included a small bit of it, I thought it really wanted to be the binding, so I have left most of it for the next person to use as binding.
- In some cases, where the cause or politician is a bit more authoritarian in stripe, the weirdness comes from the deathly serious tense tight-lipped intolerant besuited clones who populate the gathering, or the Stepford-like blandness of the party faithful.