stripe

Meaning

1. A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.
2. A long, relatively straight region against a different coloured background.
3. The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
4. (informal) Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.
5. A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow with a whip or stick.
6. A slash cut into the flesh as a punishment.
7. A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
8. Any of the balls marked with stripes in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the spots.
9. A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy.
10. (slang) The start/finish line.

streak

line

grade insignia

strath mark

data track

florist’s willow

strut rail

trouser stripe

music line

flying-shore

colour stripe

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/stɹaɪp/

From Middle English stripe, strype, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German strîpe, from Proto-West Germanic *strīpā, *strīpō, from Proto-Germanic *strīpô. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Striepe (“stripe, strip”), West Frisian stripe (“stripe”), Dutch streep (“stripe”), German Low German Striepe, Striep, Streep (“stripe”), German Streifen (“stripe, strip, band”).