Stripe Definition

strīp
striped, stripes, striping
noun
stripes
A long, narrow band, mark, or streak, differing in color, texture, or material from the surrounding area.
Webster's New World
A textile pattern of parallel bands or lines on a contrasting background.
American Heritage
A fabric or garment with a pattern of parallel stripes.
Webster's New World
A strip of cloth or braid, as a chevron, bar, or curve, worn on the sleeve as of a military uniform to indicate rank or length of service.
Webster's New World
A distinctive type, kind, or sort.
Graduates of all stripes are entering the workforce.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb
striped, striping
To mark with a stripe or stripes.
Webster's New World
(computing) To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
idiom
earn one's stripes
  • to earn, through experience and accomplishments, one's position of authority, one's fame, etc.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Stripe

Noun

Singular:
stripe
Plural:
stripes

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Stripe

Origin of Stripe

  • Middle English possibly from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German strīpe

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Stripe Sentence Examples

  • The ribbon is red with a central stripe of blue.

  • The ribbon is black with a silver stripe at the edges.

  • But the author of this article has quite recently reared some albinoes in which the familiar shoulder hood and dorsal stripe of the piebald rat is perfectly obvious, in spite of the absence of the slightest pigmentation.

  • Distantly allied to the prairie-hare or white-tailed jack-rabbit, are several forms distinguished by having a more or less distinct black stripe on the upper surface of the tail.

  • Apart from black and white face-markings, and the black tail and dorsal stripe, the prevailing colour of the Alpine chamois is chestnut brown in summer, but lighter and greyer in winter.

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Words Starting With

SSTSTR

Words Ending With

EPEIPE

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