Meaning of stripe | Babel Free

Definitions

1. list, roll
2. A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.
3. A long, relatively straight region against a different coloured background.
4. To mark with stripes or a stripe.
5. roster
6. A stroke or blow, as with a whip.
7. The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
   in-plural
8. feminine singular of listo
9. earn one's stripes, to gain experience.
10. Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.
    informal
11. third-person singular present indicative
12. a stroke with a whip or rod.
13. A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow or lash with a whip, stick, or scourge.
14. To mark with a line or band, as of different color or texture:streak, striate, variegate.
15. A slash cut into the flesh as a punishment.
16. having stripes. a striped shirt; blue-and-white-striped curtains. gestreep مُخَطَّط، مُقَلَّم раиран com listras proužkovaný gestreift stribet; -stribet ριγωτόςa rayas triibuline خط دار raidallinen rayé מְפוּספַּס धारीदार prugast, na pruge csíkos bergaris-garis röndóttur a righe/strisce しまの 줄무늬가 있는 dryžuotas, juostuotas svītrots; svītrains berjalur gestreeptstripet w paski, pasiasty خط دار às riscas vărgat, în dungi полосатый; в полоску prúžkovaný progast prugast randig ซึ่งมีสาย çizgili, yol...
17. A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
18. covered with stripes. A tiger has a stripy coat. streperig مُخَطَّط، مُقَلَّم на райета listrado pruhovaný gestreift stribet ριγωτόςa rayas vöödiline, triibuline مخطط raidallinen rayé מְפוּספַּס धारीदार isprugan, prugast csíkos bergaris-garis röndóttur rigato, a strisce しま模様の 줄무늬가 있는 dryžuotas svītrains berjalur gestreeptstripet prążkowany خط لرونکی، مخطط listrado vărgat, cu dungi полосатый pruhovaný progast prugast randig, strimmig ซึ่งมีริ้ว çizgili, yollu 條紋狀的 смугастий دھاری نما có sọc, c...
19. Any of the balls marked with stripes in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the spots.
20. A long narrow band distinguished, as by color or texture, from the surrounding material or surface.
21. A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy.
22. A strip of cloth or braid worn on a uniform to indicate rank, awards received, or length of service; a chevron.
23. The start/finish line.
    slang
24. Sort; kind: "All Fascists are not of one mind, one stripe" (Lillian Hellman).

Equivalents

Examples

“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”

“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.”

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

“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;”

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

“A certain Abbé Chuppe d'Auteroche [...] asserted that in Russia, the vapor baths, stripes were administered to the frequenters as a stimulus to the venereal appetite.”

“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.”

“[At the Saturnalia] not even a word of reproof would be administered to him [a slave] for conduct which at any other season might have been punished with stripes, imprisonment, or death.”

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