Dictionary Definition
stripe
Noun
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; "they earned their stripes in Kuwait" [syn: chevron, stripes, grade
insignia]
4 a kind or category; "businessmen of every
stripe joined in opposition to the proposal"
5 a marking of a different color or texture from
the background [syn: streak] v : mark with
stripes
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪp
Etymology
- From or stripe.
- From the first one. (cf strippen)
Noun
Translations
long straight region of a singular colour
badge
Verb
Related terms
Extensive Definition
A stripe is a long, straight region of a single
color, it may refer to:
- Candystripe, a pattern of diagonal stripes twisted around a cylinder stereotypically embodied by the candy cane
- Candystriper, a nickname for a female hospital volunteer derived from a formerly common outfit
- Chevron (insignia), sometimes referred to as stripes, a mark of military rank
- Data striping, the segmentation of logically sequential data so that segments can be written to multiple physical devices
- Go-faster stripes, refer to an imitative decoration applied to cars to make them appear to be modified for extra speed
- Magnetic stripe card, a type of card capable of storing data via magnetism
- Red Stripe, a Jamaican lager-style beer whose logo is a bold, diagonal red stripe
- Service stripe, an award in the United States armed forces
- S.T.R.I.P.E. (aka Pat Dugan), a fictional superhero in the DC Comics universe
- Striped paint, a classic example of a snipe hunt, a type of prank
- The Candystripes, nickname for Derry City F.C., an Irish football club
In entertainment:
- Red Stripe (Flying Pickets), a member of the famous a cappella group The Flying Pickets
- Stripes (film), a 1981 American comedy film
- The White
Stripes, a Grammy Award-winning American rock music duo from
Detroit
- The White Stripes (album), the self-titled debut album by American rock band, The White Stripes
In animals:
- Green-striped White, a butterfly in the Pieridae family
- Stripe-backed Wren, a bird found in the savannas of northern Colombia and central Venezuela
- Striped bass, a member of the temperate bass family
- Striped Dolphin, an extensively studied dolphin that is found in temperate and tropical waters of all the world's oceans
- Striped Hyena, a close relative of the Brown Hyena
- Three-striped Night Monkey, one of several species of owl monkeys
stripe in French: Rayure
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Hershey bar, animus, aptitude, aviation badge,
badge, band, bandeau, bar, baste, bastinado, beat, belabor, belt, bent, bespangle, bespeckle, bespot, bias, birch, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, blood, blotch, body-build, box, brand, breed, buffet, cane, cast, chalk, chalk up, character, characteristic, characteristics,
check, check off, checker, chevron, chicken, cicatrize, clan, class, club, color, complexion, composition, constituents, constitution, cowhide, crack, crasis, craze, cross-hatching, cudgel, cuff, cut, dapple, dash, define, delimit, delineation, demarcate, denomination, description, designation, dharma, diagonal, diathesis, discolor, disposition, dot, dotted line, drub, eagle, eccentricity, engrave, epaulet, ethos, feather, fiber, fillet, flagellate, flail, flake, flap, fleck, flog, form, frame, freckle, fustigate, gash, genius, genre, genus, give a whipping, give the
stick, grain, habit, hachure, hairline, harlequin, hash mark, hatch, hatching, hide, horsewhip, hue, humor, humors, idiosyncrasy, ilk, impress, imprint, inclination, individualism, insignia of
branch, iris, kidney, kin, kind, knout, label, lace, lash, lather, lay on, leaning, length, line, lineation, list, lot, maculate, make, make a mark, makeup, manner, marble, marbleize, mark, mark off, mark out, mental
set, mettle, mind, mind-set, mold, motley, mottle, nature, nick, notch, number, oak leaf, order, organization insignia,
overseas bar, parachute badge, patch, pencil, pepper, persuasion, phylum, physique, pip, pistol-whip, point, polychrome, polychromize, pommel, predilection, predisposition, preference, prick, print, proclivity, propensity, property, pummel, punch, punctuate, puncture, quality, race, rainbow, rawhide, ribbon, riddle, scar, scarify, score, scotch, scourge, scratch, seal, seam, service stripe, set, shape, shoulder patch, shoulder
sleeve insignia, slant,
slap, slash, smack, smite, somatotype, sort, spangle, spank, species, speck, speckle, spirit, splotch, spot, spread eagle, sprinkle, stain, stamp, star, stigmatize, stipple, strain, strake, strap, streak, streaking, stria, striate, striation, striature, striga, string, striola, strip, striping, stroke, stud, style, sublineation, submarine
badge, suchness,
swinge, switch, system, tattoo, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, tessellate, the like of, the
likes of, thrash,
thump, tick, tick off, tone, trace, tribe, trounce, truncheon, turn, turn of mind, twist, type, underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring, variegate, variety, vein, virgule, wallop, warp, way, whale, whip, whop, yerk