stripe
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
stripe/strʌɪp/
▶noun
- 1 a long, narrow band or strip of a different colour or texture from the surface on either side of it.
- 2 a chevron sewn on to a uniform to denote military rank.
- 3 chiefly N. Amer. a type or category.
- 4 archaic a blow with a lash.
– derivatives
striped adjective.
striped adjective.
– origin ME: perh. a back-form. from striped, of Du. or Low Ger. origin.
'stripe' also found in these Oxford entries:
band
- bar
- bend
- bend sinister
- blaze
- bobwhite
- candy-striped
- chalk-stripe
- chevron
- dun
- fess
- garganey
- grison
- natterjack toad
- orphrey
- pale
- pinstripe
- rake
- redback
- saddleback
- spider plant
- strip
- sunray
- swoosh
- vein
- virga
- vitta
- wale
- whitewall
- zone
