STRIPES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stripes mean? 

• STRIPES (noun)
  The noun STRIPES has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: STRIPES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRIPES (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("stripes" 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)

 Context examples 

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)

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)

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

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

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)

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)

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)

Then the huntsman said, Give the old one stripes three times a day and hay once; give the next (who was the servant-maid) stripes once a day and hay three times; and give the youngest (who was the beautiful lady) hay three times a day and no stripes: for he could not find it in his heart to have her beaten.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

When chromosomes at a particular stage in cell division are stained using one of several laboratory techniques, a specific pattern of light and dark stripes (bands) appears when the chromosomes are viewed through a microscope; the banding pattern assists in assigning each chromosome its particular number and evaluating its structure.

(Chromosome Band, NCI Dictionary)

There were milkmaids and shepherdesses, with brightly colored bodices and golden spots all over their gowns; and princesses with most gorgeous frocks of silver and gold and purple; and shepherds dressed in knee breeches with pink and yellow and blue stripes down them, and golden buckles on their shoes; and princes with jeweled crowns upon their heads, wearing ermine robes and satin doublets; and funny clowns in ruffled gowns, with round red spots upon their cheeks and tall, pointed caps. And, strangest of all, these people were all made of china, even to their clothes, and were so small that the tallest of them was no higher than Dorothy's knee.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)