Stripe

/stɹaɪp/ · noun

Meaning

A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions..

Definitions by Sense

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. (in the plural) The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
4. (informal) 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. (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.

Example Sentences

zebra stripes

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.

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.

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;

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

Forty stripes he [the judge] may give him [the wicked man], and not exceed:

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• stripes
• striping
• striped

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