strian.
/ˈstrʌɪə/, U.S. /ˈstraɪə/ 1. Architecture. A fillet between the flutes of columns, pilasters, and the like.The accepted sense among architects, both French and English; but apparently due to misunderstanding of Vitruvius, who uses the word for a flute of a column, or a facet of a column of polygonal section.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > shaft of column > fluting > fillet
fillet1473
stria1563
orloa1652
swathe1673
orle1706
platband1728
striga1771
1563 J. Shute First Groundes Archit. sig. Div The fifth parte is for Striæ, which are also called Femora.
1664 J. Evelyn Acct. Archit. in tr. R. Fréart Parallel Antient Archit. 130 The Striæ..are those plain spaces between the Flutings in the Ionic, Doric, Corinthian and Composed Orders.
1664 J. Evelyn Acct. Archit. in tr. R. Fréart Parallel Antient Archit. 130 The Stria being commonly a third or fourth part of the widness of the Flutings, and diminishing with the Contraction of the Scapus, unless the Shaft be very high.
1771 W. Newton tr. Vitruvius Archit. (1791) iv. iii. 78 The columns are to be wrought in twenty striæ, which, if made flat, form twenty angles, but, if they are hollowed, they are to be thus performed.
1838 J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 2) 126 Striæ, the fillets which separate the channels or flutes of columns.
2.
a. Chiefly in scientific use. A small groove, channel, or ridge; a narrow streak, stripe, or band of distinctive colour, structure, or texture; esp. one of two or of a series.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > [noun] > streakiness > streak
rewc1300
strind?1523
streak1577
lace1613
bandeleta1645
stria1673
garle1677
interstriation1849
striation1849
roe1850
swipe1869
the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [noun] > making grooves > a groove, channel, or furrow
furrowc1374
groopc1440
regal1458
rat1513
slot?1523
gutter1555
chamfer1601
channel1611
fluting1611
furrowing1611
rita1657
denervation1657
rigol1658
groove1659
riggota1661
rake1672
stria1673
champer1713
cannelure1755
gully1803
channelure1823
flute1842
rill1855
droke1880
the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > ridge channel > [noun]
wrinkle1545
crest1597
ruga1683
tubea1704
furrow1725
flute1728
stria1731
rib1740
carina1774
striolet1826
vallecula1856
channel1875
carination1880
rumination1889
striola1903
riblet1949
1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 341 Rayes or ribs of stone (answering to the ridges or striæ of a cochle-shell).
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. §5. iii. 113 The Scales..of the same Fish..have a great many exceeding small Striæ.
1698 T. Molyneux in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 220 Nor can there be observed Rays, Furroughs, Striæ or any manner of Lines running along its [Giant's Causeway stone] Superficies.
a1728 J. Woodward Attempt Nat. Hist. Fossils Eng. (1729) 229 Three Crusts of an Hæmatites, adhering to each other, and cross'd with fine small Striæ.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Malva Each little Lodge appears most artificially jointed within the corresponding Striæ or Channels.
1783 M. Cutler Let. 13 June in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 208 This vapor was of a bright color, without any tincture of red, and striated with very fine striæ.
1815 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. IX. i. 31 Neck on both sides with two striæ.
1823 W. Phillips Elem. Introd. Mineral. (ed. 3) p. xcv The slight channels occasionally observable on the planes of crystallized minerals are termed striæ.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. vii. 56 The dirt upon the surface of the ice was arranged in striæ.
1873 T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. & Morbid Anat. (ed. 2) 55 In hearts less affected, striæ of fat will be seen lying amongst the muscle.
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 29 The one system, consisting of parallel striæ, is always cut by the other system, which also consists of parallel striæ.
b. Pathology. A linear hæmorrhagic macula.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > spot or mark > caused by extravasation
ecchymosis?1541
petechia1616
stigma1661
vibex1771
extravasation1835
stria1853
1853 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 9) Vibices,..Striæ, large purple spots, like the marks produced by the strokes of a whip, which appear under the skin in certain malignant fevers.
c. Glass-making. An imperfection in the form of a streak or band.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [noun] > glass > marks or imperfections in
thread1593
streak1807
seed1821
stripe1823
bull's-eye1832
stria1832
tear1832
bullion1834
wreath1839
sand-hole1867
bullion-point1881
pontil mark1923
oil spot1962
saliva1969
1832 G. R. Porter Treat. Manuf. Porcelain & Glass 248 Striæ are undulating appearances, perfectly vitrified, and equally transparent with any other part of the glass; they..result from a want of congruity in the composition of the particles which make up the substance.
1867 G. F. Chambers Descr. Astron. vii. viii. 700 Air-bubbles, sand holes, striæ, scratches [in the lens] are no doubt undesirable.
d. Each of the alternate bright and dark bands observed in vacuum-tubes (Geissler tubes) upon the passage of an electrical discharge.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > discharge of electricity > [noun] > container > bands observed in
stria1859
striation1902
1859 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 148 3 The discharge did not exhibit the uniform white light of the Torricellian vacuum, but striæ in confused or irregular forms.
1881 Spottiswoode in Nature 6 Oct. 549/2 When the pressure is considerably reduced, these blocks are replaced by the beautiful system of flakes or ‘striæ’ delineated.
1881 Spottiswoode in Nature 6 Oct. 550/2 As the exhaustion proceeds the striæ become more and more separated... At first mere flakes of light, they gradually increase in thickness.
1883 Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1882 31 A stria, with its attendant dark space, forms a physical unit of a striated discharge.
1892 T. O'C. Sloane Standard Electr. Dict. (1893) 496 In Geissler tubes the light produced by the electric discharge is filled with striæ, bright bands alternating with dark spaces; these may be termed electric striæ.
e. Medicine. Also stria atrophica [ < modern Latin atrophica (see atrophic adj.)] . A stretch mark; stria gravidarum [Latin, genitive plural of gravida pregnant woman] , one on a pregnant woman, usually darker than the surrounding skin; stria albicans (plural stria albicantes) [Latin, present participle of albicāre to make or be white] , a former stria gravidarum that has become light-coloured following delivery.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > spot or mark > stretch mark
stria gravidarum1867
stretch mark1960
1867 Jrnl. Cutaneous Med. 1 142 None of the early writers have alluded to any other cause of the striae atrophicae than over-distension.
1880 Trans. Amer. Gynecol. Soc. IV. 141 These cicatrices are usually described as red or white shining striæ, marking the skin..of pregnant and multiparous women.
1884 R. Barnes & F. Barnes Syst. Obstetr. Med. I. viii. 294 Striæ gravidarum.
1906 T. W. Eden Man. Midwifery 1. 51 Striæ gravidarum appear on the abdominal wall... They are pearly..when recent, but afterwards they become pale and silvery (striæ albicantes).
1968 D. C. Bethea Introd. Maternity Nursing iii. 25 Thin, red streaks, called striae gravidarum, occur on the breasts of some pregnant women.
1970 C. Lerch Maternity Nursing v. 61/2 In subsequent pregnancies new striae appear in addition to the silvery white markings of the previous pregnancy.
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