From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Etymology
From [en], [enm], from [en] or [en], from [en], [gmw-pro], from [en]. Cognate
with [stq], [fy], [nl], [nds-de], [nds-de], [nds-de], [de], [da].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
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. * 8 SEP 2019 , Peter Conrad in _[The Guardian]_ , _Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser review – heavyweight study of a critical colossus (see https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/08/susan-sontag-her-life-benjamin-moser-review) _
4. *: 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.
5. [en] The badge worn by certain officer s in the military or other forces. < !--this definition could do with being improved-->
6. [en] Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.
7. * 20 MAY 2018 , Hadley Freeman in _[The Guardian]_ , _Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along? (see https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/20/is-meghan-markle-the-american-the-royals-needed-all-along) _
8. *: 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.
9. A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick ; a blow or lash with a whip, stick, or scourge .
10. * [I]
11. * [Deuteronomy]
12. * 1735 , [James Thomson (poet, born 1700)] , _The Four Seasons, and Other Poems,_ London: J. Millan and A. Millar, “Winter,” lines [nbsp] 353-354, p. [nbsp] 21, <sup> see http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004810089.0001.000 </sup>
13. *: [ Tyrants ] at pleasure mark’d him with inglorious STRIPES ;
14. * [passage=Stones to eat and bitter water for their thirst, and STRIPES for tender nurture.]
15. * [1=en]
16. A slash cut into the flesh as a punishment .
17. * [1=en]
18. * [en]
19. [en] A pattern produced by arranging the warp thread s in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
20. [en] Any of the ball s marked with stripes in the game of pool , which one player aims to pot , the other player taking the spot s.
21. [en] A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disk s for the sake of redundancy .
22. [en] The start/finish line.
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[long straight region of a colour]
- Bashkir: [ba] , [ba]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] [on a horse head]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Hunsrik: [hrx]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id] , [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Khiamniungan Naga: [kix]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Malay: [ms] , [ms] , [ms]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Norwegian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Rarotongan: [rar]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Samoan: [sm]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Shor: [cjs]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tahitian: [ty]
- Telugu: [te]
- Tongan: [to]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[badge]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Greek: [el]
- Italian: [it]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[a long narrow mark]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Greek:
- Maori: [mi]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To mark with stripes.
2. [en] To lash with a whip or strap .
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
5. [en] To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.
**** Derived terms
- self-striping
**** Related terms
{{col|en |striped |stripy |Stars and Stripes |striper |candy striper |restripe
}}
**** Translations
[to mark with stripes]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Maori: [mi]
- Portuguese: [pt]
[trans-bottom]
**** Translations
[checktrans-top]
- French: [fr]
[trans-bottom]
*** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
- [R:OneLook]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
** Norwegian Bokmål
*** Etymology
Related to [non], [non], [non] and [non].
*** Noun
[nb-noun-c]
1. a [en]
2. a strip
**** Derived terms
- [nb]
- [nb]
- [nb]
- [nb]
*** References
- [R:The Bokmål Dictionary]
** Norwegian Nynorsk
*** Etymology
Related to [non], [non], [non] and [non].
*** Noun
[nn-noun-f2]
1. a [en]
2. a strip
**** Derived terms
{{col3|nn |flystripe |Gazastripa |kyststripe |landingsstripe |stripedelfin }}
**** See also
- [nn]
- [nn]
*** References
- [R:The Nynorsk Dictionary]