Stripes

Definition: Stripes

Stripes

Noun

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

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

Date "stripes" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Bible

Literature

Transportation

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Synonyms: Stripes

Indication

Insignia; banner, banneret, bannerol; bandrol; flag, colors, streamer, standard, eagle, labarum, oriflamb, oriflamme; figurehead; ensign; pennon, pennant, pendant; burgee, blue Peter, jack, ancient, gonfalon, union jack; banderole, " old glory ", quarantine flag; vexillum; yellow-flag, yellow jack; tricolor, stars and stripes; bunting.

Crosswords: Stripes

With vinyl and stripes and a cup built right in (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.)

I thought we liked stripes this year (101 Dalmatians; writing credit: John Hughes)

And you won't be getting any older, Stripes! (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio)

Or yellow or green or stripes or plaids or zippers or epaulets (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)

I say we paint ourselves with tiger stripes, and go free all the animals in the zoo (Hey Arnold!; writing credit: Luís Filipe Rocha)

Men from Mars, dressed in Stars and stripes (Starry Eyed Surprise; performing artist: Paul Oakenfold)

Three Stripes in the Sun (1955)

Stars and Stripes Forever (1952)

Night Stripes (1944)

Pardon My Stripes (1942)

Bars and Stripes Forever (1939)

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Books

• There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos (reference)

• American Century Scars & Stripes (reference)

• A Bad Case of Stripes (reference)

• Stars & Stripes Forever (reference)

• Stars and Stripes in Peril (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Stripes (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Stars And Stripes Forever & The Greatest Marches (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Polaroid i-zone Green with Color Stripes Acrylic Magnetic Photo Frame (reference)

• DYMO 9/16 X 3.5 2-Up File Folder Labels (260/Roll 1-Roll) (Red Stripes) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Spindle Lamp - Primary Stripes (reference)

• Stars and Stripes Trunk, Tee, and Shadehat Set - Large (reference)

• Mango 18-by-28-Inch Cotton Stripes Kitchen Towels, Set of 3, Ruby/Butternut (reference)

• Koala Baby Plush Sweater Knit Baby Blanket - Pink Stripes (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Common characteristics of Anopheles crucians are long, black proboscis, the palpus is a little shorter than probiscis, and a pair of dark gray submedian longitudinal stripes on the thorax. This mosquito may be a vector for malaria. Credit: CDC.

Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. A Painted Tealia, Urticina crassicornis (formerly Tealia crassicornis), is also known as the Christmas Anemone, Red and Green Anemone, or Painted Urticina. This large anemone is found in low intertidal and subtidal zones. Column olive green with red splotches - oral disk is greenish with radiating red stripes across tentacles. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Medium shot of White Trillium with purple stripes. Credit: John Craig.

Close up shot of white Trillium with purple stripes. Credit: John Craig.

An Army Air Forces B-25B bombers awaits the takeoff signal on the flight deck of USS Hornet (CV-8), as the raid is launched, 18 April 1942. Note Flight Deck Officer holding launch flag at right, and white stripes painted on the flight deck to guide the pilot's alignment of his plane's nose and port side wheels. Credit: NAVY.

Engaged in office work, possibly during the middle "Teens" or early 1920s. The two stripes on her ward cap indicate that she was serving as the Navy's Assistant Superintendent of Nurses at the time. Credit: NAVY.

The stars and stripes forever. Credit: Library of Congress.

Will wear the stars and stripes. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mrs. Marion John Miles holding baby, while Oneida Chief William H. Rockwell demonstrates how stripes on squash determine the celebration of the gathering of the harvest, Oneida Lake, New York. Credit: Library of Congress.

Needham Roberts, 369th U.S. Infantry, formerly 15th N.Y.N.G., decorated with the Croix de Guerre, with palm, and wearing two service stripes and two wound stripes. Credit: Library of Congress.

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The coloured stripes are the same

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Business

Also popular are transparent fabrics and traditional stripes and checkers. (references)

Stripes and checkered patterns are appearing more often in different collections. (references)

The Visit USA Association Ltd. is currently sponsoring a U.S. - themed taxi campaign in London whereby entire taxis are painted in stars and stripes livery, with U.S tourism destinations’ and providers’ promotional art on the taxi sides and backs. (references)

Economic History

Guinea

Flag: Red, yellow, and green vertical stripes. (references)

Mozambique

Flag: Horizontal green, black and yellow bars separated by white stripes. (references)

Gambia, The

Flag: Three horizontal bands of red, blue, and green, with blue center bordered by two white stripes. (references)

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

Expressions using "stripes": Bengal stripes ♦ get one's stripes ♦ shadow stripes ♦ stars and stripes ♦ the star and stripes ♦ the stripes of the tiger. Additional references.

Ending with "stripes": pin-stripes, stars-and-stripes.

Chinese 

条纹 (streak, Striated, stripe), 彪 (a tiger-cat, streaks, veins). (various references)

Danish

striber (and used as a distinguishing characteristic for navigation marks, bands, shading, striations). (various references)

Dutch

strepen (streaks). (various references)

Finnish

tähtilippu (the stars and stripes, the star-spangled banner). (various references)

French

stries (streaks, striae, striations, strings), trainées (streaks), bandes (a number of areas of contrasting colour separated from one another by straight lines). (various references)

German

streift (streaks, touches), 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, stripe, tab, tape, tape back, tape down, tape up, thread, to streak, to stripe, touch, touch lightly, touch upon, wander, wrapper), Sreifen, Baender (a number of areas of contrasting colour separated from one another by straight lines, and used as a distinguishing characteristic for navigation marks, bands, narrow woven fabrics). (various references)

Greek 

ζώνες (a number of areas of contrasting colour separated from one another by straight lines, and used as a distinguishing characteristic for navigation marks, bands), λωρίδες (a number of areas of contrasting colour separated from one another by straight lines, and used as a distinguishing characteristic for navigation marks, bands, strips). (various references)

Hungarian

rangban előlép (hadseregben) (to get one's stripes), csillagos-sávos lobogó (stars and stripes). (various references)

Italian

strisce (a number of areas of contrasting colour separated from one another by straight lines, and used as a distinguishing characteristic for navigation marks, bands). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

棒縞 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぼうじま. (various references)

Korean 

줄무늬 (stripe, striped). (various references)

Pig Latin

ipesstray.(various references)

Portuguese

riscas obtidas a partir de efeitos de torção (shadow stripes), estrias de Hensen (Hensen stripes), estrias de Fontana (Fontana stripes), estrelas e listras (stars and stripes), bandeira dos eua (stars and stripes). (various references)

Romanian

pavilionul s.u.a. (the star and stripes), dungile tigrului (the stripes of the tiger), a-şi câştiga gradele (get one's stripes). (various references)

Scottish

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

Spanish

fajas (a number of areas of contrasting colour separated from one another by straight lines, and used as a distinguishing characteristic for navigation marks, bands). (various references)

Swedish

röd-och vitrandig (with red-and-white stripes), räffelvinkel (angle between sliding stripes of a fault and the strike-line of the fault itself). (various references)

Turkish

amerikan bayrağı (american flag, old glory, star spangled banner, stars and stripes). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cờ nước Mỹ (stars and stripes). (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words ending with "stripes": pinstripes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stripes" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: attrapez, stripen, strype. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: esprits, persist, priests, spriest, sprites, stirpes.

-1 letter: esprit, pisser, pistes, prests, priest, prises, resist, ripest, sister, speirs, spiers, spires, spirts, spites, sprite, sprits, stipes, stirps, streps, stripe, strips, tripes.

-2 letters: peris, pests, piers, piste, press, prest, pries, prise, priss, rests, ripes, rises, rites, septs, sipes, sires, sites, speir, spier, spies, spire, spirt, spite, spits, sprit, steps, sties, stipe, stirp.

+1 letter: crispest, hipsters, imprests, pastries, persists, piasters, piastres, presifts, prosiest, prosties, pursiest, raspiest, reposits, respites, resplits, ripostes, spinster, spiriest, spitters, spritzes, stripers, tipsters, traipses, triposes.

+2 letters: antipress, aspirates, crispiest, disputers, epistlers, imposters, parasites, patissier, persisted, persister, pertussis, piecrusts, pilasters, pinasters, plaisters, poetisers, practises, precisest, preexists, prestiges, priestess, printless, prissiest, pristanes, prothesis, psaltries, quipsters, rescripts, satrapies, scripters, sparkiest, sparriest, spheriest, spinsters, spitfires, splinters, splitters, sportiest, sprinters, spritzers, spruciest, stipplers, storeship, stripiest, strippers, superhits, topsiders, tricepses.