A stripe is a long line which is a different colour from the areas next to it.
She wore a bright green jogging suit with a white stripe down the sides.
The walls in the front bedroom are painted with broad, pale blue and white stripes.
Synonyms: band, line, streak, marking More Synonyms of stripe
2. countable noun [usually plural]
In the armed forces or the police, stripes are V-shaped bands of material sewn onto a uniform to indicate the rank of corporal or sergeant. In the United States, stripes can also show the length of time that a person has served in an organization.
...a soldier with a corporal's stripes on his arms.
He'd lost his stripes for slovenliness and cheek.
stripe in British English1
(straɪp)
noun
1.
a relatively long band of distinctive colour or texture that differs from the surrounding material or background
2.
a fabric having such bands
3.
a strip, band, or chevron of fabric worn on a military uniform, etc, esp one that indicates rank
4. mainly US and Canadian
kind; sort; type
a man of a certain stripe
verb
5. (transitive)
to mark with a stripe or stripes
Word origin
C17: probably from Middle Dutch strīpe; related to Middle High German strīfe, of obscure origin
stripe in British English2
(straɪp)
noun
a stroke from a whip, rod, cane, etc
Word origin
C15: perhaps from Middle Low German strippe; related to stripe1
stripe in American English
(straɪp)
noun
1.
a long, narrow band, mark, or streak, differing in color, texture, or material from the surrounding area
2. [often pl.]
a fabric or garment with a pattern of parallel stripes
3.
a strip of cloth or braid, as a chevron, bar, or curve, worn on the sleeve as of a military uniform to indicate rank or length of service
The poll finds that evangelicals are the most likely to show off the stars and stripes.
Christianity Today (2000)
Shirts with thin vertical stripes slim the torso.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Stand out against the grey winter sky with bright block colours and stripes.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
They are quite easy to identify from the broad yellow stripe that they have above each eye.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
They like the one with stripes on his shoulder.
Charles Glass The Tribes Triumphant (2006)
The one wearing the vertical stripes looks wider.
The Sun (2008)
They can always be identified by the white stripe along the front of the wings.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Do vertical stripes make you look slimmer?
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Keep to either a block colour or faint stripes.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Either that or modify your uniform to carry a big yellow stripe down the back.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Can you imagine getting through a whole summer without wearing stripes?
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Maple leaf or stars and stripes?
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The high street is packed full of bright stripes that should not be avoided just because you have a more voluptuous shape.
The Sun (2016)
Mostly, the speeches condemn political folly and corruption of one stripe or another.
The Times Literary Supplement (2011)
The bright pink stripe mirrors the two main lines of the F-Type shape.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It's a proper muscle car that breathes stars and stripes.
The Sun (2010)
The overdosed stripe will have turned white and collapsed, and in between will be brilliant green stripes.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
It has a dark green square above a thin blue stripe, with a darker blue rectangle at the bottom.
The Sun (2016)
Consider a thin ticking stripe as a neutral, and match with a stripe of a different scale and density.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
With its stripes of different and dark hues, it is the jacket that strikes you and it sits on him as if it belongs.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Toulouse chair in broad stripe, 475 next.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
He has a helmet in Racing's light blue stripes but uses it as his spare.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
As he wrote in his autobiography: 'I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Word lists with
stripe
Horse markings
In other languages
stripe
British English: stripe /straɪp/ NOUN
A stripe is a long line which is a different colour from the areas next to it.
The walls are painted with pale blue and white stripes.
American English: stripe
Arabic: تَخْطِيط
Brazilian Portuguese: listra
Chinese: 条纹
Croatian: pruga
Czech: pruh
Danish: stribe
Dutch: streep
European Spanish: raya
Finnish: raita
French: rayure
German: Streifen Muster
Greek: ρίγα
Italian: striscia
Japanese: 縞
Korean: 줄무늬
Norwegian: stripe
Polish: pas
European Portuguese: risca
Romanian: dungă
Russian: полоса
Latin American Spanish: raya
Swedish: rand
Thai: แถบสี
Turkish: şerit
Ukrainian: смуга
Vietnamese: sọc
All related terms of 'stripe'
cove stripe
a decorative stripe painted along the sheer strake of a vessel, esp of a sailing boat
chalk-stripe
a stripe , as in the fabric of some suits , that is wider and usually more muted than a pinstripe
magnetic stripe
(across the back of various types of cheque card , credit card, etc) a dark stripe of magnetic material consisting of several tracks onto which information may be coded and which may be read or written to electronically
service stripe
a stripe , or any of the parallel diagonal stripes, worn on the left sleeve of a uniform to indicate years spent in the service
go-faster stripe
a decorative line, intended to be suggestive of high speed, on the bodywork of a car
pinstripe
Pinstripes are very narrow vertical stripes found on certain types of clothing . Businessmen's suits often have pinstripes.
MSR
An MSR is a device that converts information on the magnetic stripe of a credit card into data that can be understood by retail software .
candy-striped
(esp of clothing fabric) having narrow coloured stripes on a white background
Chinese translation of 'stripe'
stripe
(straɪp)
n(c)
条(條)纹(紋) (tiáowén) (个(個), gè)
Derived Forms
stripesn pl (on uniform) 制服上表示军衔或服役时间的条纹
(noun)
Definition
a long band of colour that differs from the surrounding material
a white stripe down the sides
Synonyms
band
line
Draw a line down the centre of the page.
streak
There are these dark streaks on the surface of the moon.
marking
mark
The dogs rub against the walls and make dirty marks.
rule
score
bar
flash
a sudden flash of lightning
blaze
Additional synonyms
in the sense of flash
Definition
a sudden short blaze of intense light or flame
a sudden flash of lightning
Synonyms
blaze,
ray,
burst,
spark,
beam,
sparkle,
streak,
flare,
dazzle,
shaft,
glare,
gleam,
flicker,
shimmer,
twinkle,
scintillation,
coruscation
in the sense of line
Definition
a continuous length without breadth
Draw a line down the centre of the page.
Synonyms
stroke,
mark,
rule,
score,
bar,
band,
channel,
dash,
scratch,
slash,
underline,
streak,
stripe,
groove
in the sense of mark
Definition
a visible impression on a surface, such as a spot or scratch
The dogs rub against the walls and make dirty marks.
Synonyms
spot,
stain,
streak,
smudge,
line,
nick,
impression,
scratch,
bruise,
scar,
dent,
blot,
blemish,
blotch,
pock,
splotch,
smirch
Synonyms of 'stripe'
stripe
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Additional synonyms
in the sense of streak
There are these dark streaks on the surface of the moon.