stripe

Etymology

From Middle Dutch or Middle Low German stripe, Dutch strippen

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /st(ʃ)ɹaɪp/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /st(ʃ)ɹʌɪp/

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• Rhymes: -aɪp

Noun

stripe (plural stripes)

1. A long, straight region of a single colour.
2. (in the plural) The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
3. (informal) Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.

   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.

4. A long narrow mark left by striking with a lash or rod; by extension, such a stroke.
   • Bible, Deuteronomy xxv. 3

     Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed.

   • Thomson

     Cruelty marked him with inglorious stripes.

   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2

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

5. (weaving) A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.

Verb

stripe (third-person singular simple present stripes, present participle striping, simple past and past participle striped)

1. (transitive) To mark with stripes.
2. (transitive, computing) To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.

Further reading

• stripe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• stripe in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• stripe at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Pitres, Presti, Priest, Sprite, esprit, priest, respit, retips, ripest, sitrep, sprite, tripes

Etymology

Related to Old Norse strípaðr, stripóttr, stríprendr and strip n.

Noun

stripe f, m (definite singular stripa or stripen, indefinite plural striper, definite plural stripene)

1. a stripe
2. a strip

References

• “stripe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology

Related to Old Norse strípaðr, stripóttr, stríprendr and strip n.

Noun

stripe f (definite singular stripa, indefinite plural striper, definite plural stripene)

1. a stripe
2. a strip

References

• “stripe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.