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STRIPE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
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 narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
Example:
may the Stars and Stripes forever wave
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
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)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A kind or category
Example:
businessmen of every stripe joined in opposition to the proposal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("stripe" is a kind of...):
form; kind; sort; variety (a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality)
Sense 4
Meaning:
V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service
Example:
they earned their stripes in Kuwait
Synonyms:
chevron; grade insignia; stripe; stripes
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 5
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)
II. (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:
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)
Over a period of almost seven years, Cassini’s cameras surveyed the south polar terrain of the small moon, a unique geological basin renowned for its four prominent "tiger stripe” fractures and the geysers of tiny icy particles and water vapor first sighted there nearly 10 years ago. The result of the survey is a map of 101 geysers, each erupting from one of the tiger stripe fractures, and the discovery that individual geysers are coincident with small hot spots. These relationships pointed the way to the geysers’ origin.###!!!###
(101 Geysers on Icy Saturn Moon, NASA)
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, and have a life span of two to three years.
(Chinese Hamster, NCI Thesaurus)
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)
Other hypotheses include the idea that stripes may confuse predators, facilitate social interactions within the herd, and regulate body temperature.
(Zebra stripes may 'dazzle' pathogen-packing horse flies, Wikinews)
I give you my word that I did not so much as lay a stripe upon his fool's back, but after speaking with him, and telling him how needful the money was to me, I left him for the night to think over the matter in my dungeon.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Stripes may dazzle flies in some way once they are close enough to see them with their low-resolution eyes, said study co-author and Royal Society University Research Fellow Martin How.
(Zebra stripes may 'dazzle' pathogen-packing horse flies, Wikinews)
Scientists from the University of Bristol and UC Davis say zebras may have gotten their stripes to confuse ectoparasites, such as flies.
(Zebra stripes may 'dazzle' pathogen-packing horse flies, Wikinews)
While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher—shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange with monograms of Indian blue.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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