Sekirov Dictionary

stripe

/stɹaɪp/

noun 10
verb 4
forms 3
phrases 2

noun10

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A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.
- zebra stripes
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A long, relatively straight region against a different coloured background.
- 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.
A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
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Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.
- 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.
[in the plural] The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
Any of the balls marked with stripes in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the spots.
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A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow or lash with a whip, stick, or scourge.
- Thou most lying slave, Whom stripes may move, not kindness! — 1610
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A slash cut into the flesh as a punishment.
- [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. — 1911
A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy.
(slang) The start/finish line.

verb4

To mark with stripes.
To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.
To lash with a whip or strap.
To record (a time code) onto videotape.

forms

striped · striping · stripes

Phrases with stripe

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