Meaning of tiger stripes | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of various color patterns featuring stripes, usually including a yellow or orange color.
   plural, plural-only
2. A pattern of brown stripes on leaves caused by fungal or other microbial infection.
   plural, plural-only
3. A series of four parallel depressions on the surface of Enceladus, a moon orbiting Saturn.
   plural, plural-only
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tiger, stripes.
   plural, plural-only

Examples

“To improve visibility the cars were painted up in yellow and black ‘tiger stripes’, making them a recognisable mainstay on Victoria’s rails.”

“[Kickz] notes that readers can “draw” with paint pens and shows how to use them to make a tricolor camo design or a Pac-Man–inspired maze on black high tops. He also walks through how to add acrylic paint tiger stripes and create a “cartoon” effect by applying white and black lines “near the stitching in different areas of the shoe.””

“At the time of ripening, leaves of Esca-affected vines show an interveinal necrosis, known as “tiger stripes”, also called Grapevine Leaf Stripe Disease (GLSD), causing the drying of grape clusters, and, thus, affecting grape quality and composition.”

“The typical foliar symptoms of the disease may appear on the foliage as tiger stripes, while the berries can show purple spots, cracks and drying up.”

“A plume, consisting of many individual jets, expels subsurface material originating from the ocean from four parallel fractures, the so-called tiger stripes, located in the south polar terrain.”

“This moon is the main source of material for Saturn’s E ring, due to the 100 km sized plumes emanating from its south pole, ejecting water ice and water vapour [54,62]. This is released from aligned vent structures, named tiger stripes, that are fed by a subsurface ocean that experiences ongoing hydrothermal interaction with a silicate core as shown in Figure 1 [63].”

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