Stripe

Definition: Stripe

Stripe

Noun

1. A strip or stripe of a contrasting color or material.

2. A piece of braid, usually on the sleeve, indicating military rank or length of service.

3. V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service.

4. A marking of a different color or texture from the background.

Verb

1. Mark with stripes.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stripe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Computing

Biology & Biotechnology

Electrical Engineering

Geography

Mining

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Synonyms: Stripe

Indication

Mark, scratch, line, stroke, dash, score, stripe, streak, tick, dot, point, notch, nick.

Length

Line, bar, rule, stripe, streak, spoke, radius.

Punishment

Lash, scaffold; (instrument of punishment); imprisonment; (restraint); transportation, banishment, expulsion, exile, involuntary exile, ostracism; penal servitude, hard labor; galleys; beating;Verb: flagellation, fustigation, gantlet, strappado, estrapade, bastinado, argumentum baculinum, stick law, rap on the knuckles, box on the ear; blow; (impulse); stripe, cuff, kick, buffet, pummel; slap, slap in the face; wipe, douse; coup de grace; torture, rack; picket, picketing; dragonnade.

Crosswords: Stripe

Frisian (ray, strip, stripe).

Look at this one, he has a funny stripe on his head (Gremlins; writing credit: Chris Columbus)

Well, it's a big pretty white plane with a red stripe, curtains at the windows, wheels, and it just looks like a big Tylenol (Airplane!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; David Zucker)

Double breasted pin stripe coat top press (THAT'S KILLER JOE; performing artist: Manhattan Transfer)

Candy Stripe Nurses (1974)

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Books

• AC Losses and Flux Pinning and Formation of Stripe Phase (Studies of High Temperature Superconductors, Volume 33) (reference)

• Blood Stripe (reference)

• General Jim Hartinger: From One Stripe to Four Stars (reference)

• Landp/DOS and Landp/2 Support for Financial Magnetic Stripe Readers/Enciders (reference)

• One More Stripe to the Tiger: A Selection of Contemporary Chilean Poetry and Fiction (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Candy Stripe Nurses (reference)

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Music

• Different Stripe (reference)

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High Tech

• MCS INDUSTRIES 42950 4x6 FASHION STRIPE WOOD PICTURE FRAME - TEAK FINISH (reference)

• Fargo Electronics Ultracard PVC High-Mag High-Coerc Mag Stripe 500 Count (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Navy and Yellow Stripe Daytripper Stroller (reference)

• Blue Stripe Canister (Medium) (reference)

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Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Hermissenda, Hermissenda crassicornis, also known as the Opalescent Sea Slug, is found in a variety of habitats including mud flats, rocky shores and wharf pilings. Its body is up to 80 mm long. Its dorsal surface has a single orange stripe and bright "electric blue lines, but otherwise is variable in color. Kodiak to Baja California. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

A blue stripe grunt. Credit: Sanctuaries.

A look at the new Defense Department common access card. With an 32 kilobyte embedded computer chip, magnetic stripe and two bar codes, the "Smart Card" will eventually replace the standard military identification card. (File photo).

Off Lewes, Delaware, on 16 March 1949, just after she was returned to the U.S. Navy by the Soviet Union. She had served as the Soviet Navy ship Murmansk since April 1944. By the time this photograph was taken, Milwaukee had been repainted to remove the Soviet-style white waterline stripe. Credit: NAVY.

Underway circa mid-1943, possibly during her shakedown cruise in the late spring. Planes on deck include F6F "Hellcat" fighters and SB2C "Helldiver" scout-bonmbers. Note this carrier's unique longitudinal black flight deck stripe. Credit: NAVY.

Operating in the Pacific, circa late June 1941. She is turning into the wind to recover aircraft. Note her "natural wood" flight deck stain and dark Measure One camouflage paint scheme. The flight deck was stained blue in July 1941, during camouflage experiments that gave her a unique deck stripe pattern. Credit: NAVY.

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One of these flags was red and blue with an imperceptible white stripe between

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Economic History

Equatorial Guinea

A national emblem with the phrase "UNIDAD PAZ JUSTICIA" is placed in the white center stripe. (references)

Malawi

Flag: Horizontal tricolor of black, red, and green with a rising sun in the center of the black stripe. (references)

Latvia

Latvia's flag consists of two horizontal, maroon bands of equal width, divided by a white stripe one-half the width. (references)

Political Economy

BRAZIL

For the past several years, Brazil blocked U.S. wheat imports due to several phytosanitary issues related to wheat, including TCK smut, cereal stripe and flag smut. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "stripe": broken stripe ♦ crammed stripe ♦ light stripe ♦ runway side stripe marking ♦ service stripe ♦ stripe blight ♦ stripe figure ♦ stripe set. Additional references.

Beginning with "stripe": stripe-patterns.

Ending with "stripe": broken-stripe, pin-stripe.

Containing "stripe": the-stripe-repeated.

Albanian

shirit (band, bandage, bar, braid, cleat, colors, colours, edging, fillet, ribbon, sash, scarf, strap, stria, Taenia, tape, tapeworm), gradë (degree, grade, level, notch, rank, rating, thermometer), copë me shirita. (various references)

Arabic 

‏نوع (brood, change, class, description, form, gender, genus, grain, kidney, kind, manner, order, quality, ripeness, run, sex, sort, species, style, type, variegate, variety, vary), ‏قلم (clip, cut, cut back, liner, manicure, pare, pen, prune, streak, stria, trim), ‏تظهر عارية, ‏طراز (class, genus, make, mold, mould, order, style, type), ‏ضربة بالعصا (bastinado), ‏ضرب (batter, battery, beat, beat off, belabour, biff, buffet, chastise, connect, curry, description, drub, drubbing, fib, flap, flapping, form, galvanize, genre, go getter, grain, hit, hitting, impact, jabbing, kidney, kind, lace, lace into smb., lam, larrup, let out, lock out, manner, multiplication, multiply, order, overtake, paddle, paste, pasting, patter, poke, pommel, pound, pummel, slash, slosh, sock, sort, stamp, strike, tan, tanning, thrash, thrashing, thresh, variety, wallop, whip), ‏خطط (adumbrate, blueprint, chart, delimit, delineate, design, draught, limn, line, model, pencil in, plan, program, programme, project, protract, scheme, set out, streak, trace), ‏خط (band, bar, calligraphy, hand, handwriting, line, streak, stria, trace, writing), ‏أثر ضربة بالعصا, ‏شارة رتبة عسكرية, ‏شريط على الكم دال للرتبة العسكرية, ‏شريط (band, bar, ribbon, streak, strip, tape). (various references)

Bulgarian 

удар с камшик (whip), рязка (incision, notch, ridge, scar, score, streak, stria, weal, welt), райе, раиран плат, тип (card, dude, exemplar, exponent, fellow, joker, josser, party, person, phylum, specimen, style, type), шеврон, шарка (pattern, pox), категория (bracket, breed, category, class, division, grade, league, notion, pigeonhole, rank, rate, rating, sort, value), вид (air, appearance, aspect, blush, breed, cast, clan, class, complexion, demeanor, demeanour, description, form, genre, genus, grade, guise, kidney, kind, likeness, look, manner, mien, mode, nature, order, persuasion, presence, race, shape, show, similitude, sort, species, strain, style, taxon, type, variety, view), нашивка, белег от камшик. (various references)

Chinese 

條紋 , 斑紋 (streak), 条纹 (streak, Striated, stripes). (various references)

Czech

pruh (band, bar, bicycle lane, streak, strip, Wale, weal), proužek (streak, strip), prýmek (braid). (various references)

Danish

stribe (strip photography), vendeplads (turn-around, turning about, turning bay), ridse (abrasion, scratch), farvestribe (smoke, streak). (various references)

Dutch

streep (line, ray, streak, strip, stroke), gallon (galloon, gold braid). (various references)

Esperanto

strio (ray, strip), galjono (galloon, gold braid). (various references)

Faeroese

rípa (ray, strip), ál (ray, strip). (various references)

Farsi 

یراق (Trapping), پاگون , پارچه راه راه , مارک (Brand, Score), تازیانه زدن (Lambaste, Lick, Rawhide, Scourge, Whip), علامت (Allegory, Badge, Banner, Brand, Emblem, Mark, Marker, Name, Presage, Showing, Sign, Signal, Symbol, Symptom, Tally, Tick, Token), خطراه راه , راه راه کردن (Corrugate), درجه نظامی . (various references)

Finnish

raita (streak, willow), juova (ray, streak, strip). (various references)

French

rayure (streak, strip, stroke), bande (streak, strip). (various references)

Frisian

stripe (ray, strip), streek (ray, strip). (various references)

German

Streifen (binding, braid, brush, brush against, brush past, film, graze, kiss, line, panel, pink, prowl, range, rasher, ray, roam, roam about, scrape, shave, strap, streak, strip, tab, tape, tape back, tape down, tape up, thread, to streak, to stripe, touch, touch lightly, touch upon, wander, wrapper). (various references)

Greek 

ράβδωση (flute, fluting, groove, streak, stria, striation, wheal), ταινία (band, banderol, banderole, belt, cordon, fillet, film, movie, ribbon, strip, tape, tapeworm). (various references)

Hebrew 

שרטוט (drawing, plan, schema, sketch), פס (band, line, streak, track), חברבורה (spot, streak), הלקאה (beating, flagellation, flogging, striking, thrashing, whipping), סרט דרגה. (various references)

Hungarian

vonal (isoclinic, Lane, line, streak, stria, striae), csík (band, loach, ribbon, streak, stria, striae, strip, stripping, tracking). (various references)

Indonesian

coretan (graffiti, pen drawing, scratch), belang (band, blemished, pied, skin blemish, spot). (various references)

Italian

striscia (slinks, strap, streak, strip, tape, tiptoes, trail). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

筋 (line, muscle, plan, plot, sinew, string), 縞 , ストックホルム症候群 (stock point, Stockhom syndrome, stomach, stop, stop bit, stop motion, stoplight, stopper, stopwatch, straight, straight course, straight perm, straight permanent wave, straight punch, strap, strategy, streaker, streaking, stream, streamer, street, street angel, street furniture, street girl, streetcar, streetwalker, streptomycin, stress, stretch, stretching, stride, strike, strike zone, striker, string, strings, strip, strip girl, strip mill, strip show, stripper, striptease, structure). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すじ (line, muscle, plan, plot, sinew, string), しま (island), ストライプ . (various references)

Korean 

줄무늬 (striped, stripes). (various references)

Manx

striggey (draw, drawing off, squirt), strigg, slattag (parch, small rod, small stick, small switch, swizzle stick; written accent, twig), skilleig (shell covered beach, stria, strip), schimmeigey (score, variegate), schimmeig (chevron, dash, score, streak), rimmeigey (line, streak, weal), rimmeig (line on the skin, rib, weal). (various references)

Papiamen

strepi (ray, strip). (various references)

Pig Latin

ipestray.(various references)

Portuguese

tira (brace, ray, ribbon, screed, shred, strip), listra (flick, streak), galão (bounce, braid, cordon, galloon, gimp, gold braid, lacing, orris), barra (bar, beam, cross-bar, crowbar, girder, inlet, ray, strip, tablet, timber). (various references)

Romanian

tresã (braid, lace, patch, piping), galon (chevron, gallon, galloon), fâşie (band, ribbon, shred, slip, streak), dungã (bar, border, edge, fold, furrow, streak, wrinkle), dunga (lace), cresta (Dent, engrail, excise, Harrow, indent, jag, Nick, notch, round, score, scotch, slash, snick, wound), ştraif (strip). (various references)

Russian 

черта (band, crease, habit, line, streak, stria, stroke, trace), нашивка, полоса;нашивка;шеврон, полоса (band, bar, facia, streak, strip, windrow). (various references)

Scottish

stiall (a streak, a strip, mark with stripes). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vrsta (brand, category, class, gamboge, genus, kind, labrador tea, manner, quality, rank, run, sort, species, type), pruga (line, streak, stria, strip, track), oznaka čina (identification), štrafta. (various references)

Spanish

raya (crease, dash, devilfish, hairline, line, Mark, parting, ray, score, scratch, sea devil, skate, streak, stria, strip). (various references)

Swedish

strimma (flick, ray, slash, streak, strip, trail, weal, welt), rand (brim, brima, brink, edge, lip, margin, rand, tidemark, verge, welt), galon (frog, galloon, gold braid, lace, lacing, pvc-coated fabric). (various references)

Turkish

sopa darbesi, tür (breed, class, genre, genus, ilk, kind, persuasion, race, sort, sort of, species, strain, type, variety), rütbe (degree, distinction, grade, order, promotion, rank, station, tier), kamçı darbesi (lash), cins (blooded, breed, cast, class, diversity, gender, genus, kind, pedigree, pedigreed, persuasion, pure blooded, pureblooded, purebred, quality, race, sex, species, type, variety, well bred), şerit (band, braid, cord, fascia, fillet, gut, lace, riband, ribbon, roadway, spline, strap, strip, tab, tape, tapeworm, traffic lane, welt), çubuk (baton, chopstick, rib, rod, stave, stick, strip, switch, tobacco pipe, wand), çizgili kumaş (tabby), çizgilemek, çizgi çizgi yapmak (striate), çizgi (bar, drawing, furrow, grain, groove, line, ruling, score, scratch, stria, wheal), çeşit (assortment, cast, class, denomination, description, genre, ilk, item, kind, range, sample, sort, species, style, variety). (various references)

Turkmen 

зyzmyk. (various references)

Ukrainian

смугаста тканина, смуга (belt, skirt, weal, width), характер (blood, character, disposition, ethos, habit, kind, make up, mettle, nature, temperament, tone), нашивка (tab), мережити смугами. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sọc. (various references)

Welsh

rhesen (line, streak), rhes (bank, line, queue, rank, row), gwialennod (stroke), ffonnod (blow, stroke), clais (bruise). (various references)

plaga, plagae, plagam, plagarum, plagas, plagatus, plagis, virga. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "stripe": striped, stripeless, striper, stripers, stripes. (additional references)

Words ending with "stripe": pinstripe. (additional references)

Words containing "stripe": pinstriped, pinstripes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stripe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Asterope, attrapez, Estrie, Sergipe, setrip, shripe, stiep, Stirbei, straple, streep, strep, strepp, stribe, strile, strimp, strine, stripen, stript, strite, strype, sttrep. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: esprit, priest, ripest, sprite, tripes.

-1 letter: peris, piers, piste, prest, pries, prise, ripes, rites, speir, spier, spire, spirt, spite, sprit, stipe, stirp, strep, strip, tiers, tires, tries, tripe, trips.

-2 letters: erst, ires, peri, pert, pest, pets, pier, pies, pits, reis, reps, rest, rets, ripe, rips, rise, rite, sept, sipe, sire, site, spit, step, stir, tier, ties, tips, tire.

+1 letter: esprits, hipster, imprest, parties, pastier, permits, persist, pestier, piaster, piastre, pirates, pitiers, presift, priests, privets, prostie, pterins, pyrites, reposit, respite, resplit, riposte, ropiest, spirted, spitter, spriest, sprites, stirpes, striped, striper, stripes, tippers, tipsier, tipster, traipse, triceps, triples.

+2 letters: asperity, aspirate, crepiest, crispate, crispest, cuprites, diopters, dioptres, disputer, emptiers, epistler, firepots, grapiest, gripiest, hipsters, imposter, imprests, imputers, overtips, painters, pantries, parasite, paretics, parietes, parities, partiers, pastries, peltries, periapts, peridots, perkiest, perlites, persists, pertains, philters, philtres, piasters, piastres, picrates, picrites, pictures, piecrust, pieforts, pierrots, pilaster, pinaster, pitchers, plaister, plaiters, poetiser, poetries, pointers, poitrels, porkiest, porniest, postfire, practise, predicts, preedits, preexist, presifts, presplit, prestige, pretrims, pretties, priciest, prickets, priested, priestly, primates, primmest, printers, pristane, pristine, privates, priviest, prosiest, prosties, proteids, proteins, purities, pursiest, puttiers, quipster, rapidest, raspiest, receipts, repaints, reposits, reprints, reptiles, rescript, respited, respites, resplits, riposted, ripostes, ripplets, riptides, roupiest, scripted, scripter, septaria, sorptive, spinster, spiriest, spirited, spitfire, spitters, splinter, splitter, sportier, sportive, spottier, sprinted, sprinter, spritzed, spritzer, spritzes, stippler, stripers, stripier, stripped, stripper, stumpier, stupider, superhit, tiderips, tipplers, tipsters, topsider, traipsed, traipses, triphase, triplets, triposes, trippers, trippets, trophies, tropines, unripest, wiretaps, writeups, yperites.