stripe

plural stripes

1. A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.

   zebra stripes

2. A long, relatively straight region against a different coloured background.

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   8 Sep 2019, Peter Conrad in The Guardian, Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser review – heavyweight study of a critical colossus At first, what mattered was the sparky contents of Sontag’s head; by the end she was best known for the way she wore her hair – that saturnine battle helmet of dyed black, with a single stripe left white at the temple like a Frankensteinian lightning bolt of intellect.

3. in pluralThe badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
4. informalDistinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.

   a tyrant of a very different stripe

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   persons of the same political stripe

   20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along? Everyone I spoke to had waved flags at Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding, had camped out for Diana’s funeral and, in some cases, her ill-fated wedding. (No one mentioned going to Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson’s now all-but forgotten wedding, and yet the awkward truth is that Harry and Meghan’s marriage is no more significant than that one was, in terms of lineage.) Not being a royalist of any stripe, I’d not been to any of those.

5. A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow or lash with a whip, stick, or scourge.

   1735, James Thomson, The Four Seasons, and Other Poems, London: J. Millan and A. Millar, “Winter,” lines 353-354, p. 21, [Tyrants] at pleasure mark’d him with inglorious stripes;

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   Thou most lying slave, Whom stripes may move, not kindness!

   1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]

   Forty stripes he [the judge] may give him [the wicked man], and not exceed:

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 25:3

   When a youth of twelve years, - since, as Solomon says, "The root of learning is bitter, although the fruit is sweet - and following his literary pursuits, in order to avoid the discipline and frequent stripes inflicted on him by his preceptor, he ran away, and concealed himself under the hollow bank of a river[.]

   1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 191

   Stones to eat and bitter water for their thirst, and stripes for tender nurture.

   1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

   A certain Abbé Chuppe d'Auteroche [...] asserted that in Russia, the vapor baths, stripes were administered to the frequenters as a stimulus to the venereal appetite.

   1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 45

6. A slash cut into the flesh as a punishment.

   [At the Saturnalia] not even a word of reproof would be administered to him [a slave] for conduct which at any other season might have been punished with stripes, imprisonment, or death.

   1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 308

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   But if there were any one who tried and could not make her laugh, he would have three red stripes cut out of his back and salt rubbed into them and, sad to relate, there were many sore backs in that kingdom.

   1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 269

7. businessA 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. computingA portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy.
10. slanghobbiesThe start/finish line.

present singular third person stripes · participle present striping · participle past striped · past striped

1. transitiveTo mark with stripes.
2. transitiveTo lash with a whip or strap.

   But when practice yielded no improvement, curses and the crack of a whip followed. Stripped, lying face down on the ground, Platt absorbed the master's rage, lash after lash striping his buttocks, shoulders, and back.

   2012, Mark Fiege, The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States, →ISBN

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   I did try to ask questions and talk to Nanny but different things but that was considered "Talking back" or sassing which resulted in the striping of the legs or mashing of one's mouth, and then being put in the dark closet until the crying stopped.

   2010, Susan Gore, A Blessing of Sunshine & Wrath, →ISBN, page 13

3. transitivecomputingTo distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.
4. transitivebroadcastingTo record (a time code) onto videotape.