STRIPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stripe mean? 

• STRIPE (noun)
  The noun STRIPE has 5 senses:

1. an adornment consisting of a strip 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 kind or category

5. a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background

  Familiarity information: STRIPE used as a noun is common.

• STRIPE (verb)
  The verb STRIPE has 1 sense:

1. mark with stripes

  Familiarity information: STRIPE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRIPE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

band; banding; stripe

Hypernyms ("stripe" is a kind of...):

adornment (a decoration of color or interest that is added to relieve plainness)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stripe"):

cigar band (a narrow paper band around a cigar)

hatband (a band around the crown of a hat just above the brim)

neckband (a band around the collar of a garment)

pinstripe (a very thin stripe (especially a white stripe on a dark fabric))

Holonyms ("stripe" is a part of...):

garment (an article of clothing)

Derivation:

stripe (mark with stripes)

stripy (marked or decorated with stripes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("stripe" is a kind of...):

badge (an emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.))

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Sense 3

Meaning:

V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

chevron; grade insignia; stripe; stripes

Context example:

they earned their stripes in Kuwait

Hypernyms ("stripe" is a kind of...):

badge (an emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.))

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A kind or category

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

businessmen of every stripe joined in opposition to the proposal

Hypernyms ("stripe" is a kind of...):

form; kind; sort; variety (a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

bar; streak; stripe

Context example:

may the Stars and Stripes forever wave

Hypernyms ("stripe" is a kind of...):

marking (a pattern of marks)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stripe"):

band; banding; stria; striation (a stripe or stripes of contrasting color)

Derivation:

stripe (mark with stripes)

stripy (marked or decorated with stripes)

• STRIPE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mark with stripes

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "stripe" is one way to...):

mark (make or leave a mark on)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

stripe (an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material)

stripe (a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background)

striping (the act of marking with stripes)

 Context examples 

This reduced ability to land on the zebra's coat may be due to stripes disrupting the visual system of the horse flies during their final moments of approach.

(Zebra stripes may 'dazzle' pathogen-packing horse flies, Wikinews)

The villein took the cruel blow without wince or cry, as one to whom stripes are a birthright and an inheritance.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My stripes were sore and stiff, and made me cry afresh, when I moved; but they were nothing to the guilt I felt.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The researchers modeled eruptions on Enceladus as uniform curtains along the tiger stripe fractures.

(Saturn Moon's Activity Could Be 'Curtain Eruptions', NASA)

Heidegger’s tires were Palmer’s, leaving longitudinal stripes.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Originating in the deserts of northern China and Mongolia and kept in captivity since 1919, these hamsters exhibit a whitish/grey/brown coat color with a black stripe down the spine.

(Chinese Hamster, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The top is aluminum that is etched with stripes roughly 20 times smaller than the width of a human hair.

(Harvesting Electrical Power from Waste Heat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This colourful stripe of stars, gas, and dust is actually a spiral galaxy named NGC 1055.

(A Galaxy on the Edge, ESO)

Till then we bear our Cross, as His Son did in obedience to His Will. It may be that we are chosen instruments of His good pleasure, and that we ascend to His bidding as that other through stripes and shame; through tears and blood; through doubts and fears, and all that makes the difference between God and man.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The excess heat is especially pronounced over three fractures that are not unlike the tiger stripes — prominent, actively venting fractures that slice across the pole — except that they don't appear to be active at the moment.

(Cassini Sees Heat Below the Icy Surface of Enceladus, NASA)