different between stripe vs bend

English

Etymology

From Middle Dutch or Middle Low German stripe, Dutch strippen

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /st(?)?a?p/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /st(?)???p/
• Rhymes: -a?p

Noun

stripe (plural stripes)

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.
   • 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 lighting bolt of intellect.

3. (in the plural) The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
4. (informal) Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.

   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 with a whip or stick.
   • c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, Scene 2,^[1]

     Thou most lying slave,

     Whom stripes may move, not kindness!

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Deuteronomy 25.3,^[2]

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

   • 1735, James Thomson, The Four Seasons, and Other Poems, London: J. Millan and A. Millar, “Winter,” lines 353-354, p. 21,^[3]

     [Tyrants] at pleasure mark’d him with inglorious stripes;
6. A slash cut into the flesh as a punishment.
7. (weaving) A 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. (computing) A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

stripe (third-person singular simple present stripes, present participle striping, simple past and past participle striped)

1. (transitive) To mark with stripes.
2. (transitive) To lash with a whip or strap.
3. (transitive, computing) To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.

Translations

Related terms

• striped
• stripy
• Stars and Stripes
• striper
• candy striper
• restripe

Translations

Further reading

• stripe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• stripe in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• stripe at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Pitres, Presti, Priest, Sprite, esprit, pierst, priest, re-tips, respit, retips, ripest, sitrep, sprite, tripes

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Related to Old Norse strípaðr, stripóttr, stríprendr and strip n.

Noun

stripe f or m (definite singular stripa or stripen, indefinite plural striper, definite plural stripene)

1. a stripe
2. a strip

Derived terms

• flystripe
• Gazastripen
• kyststripe
• landingsstripe

References

• “stripe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Related to Old Norse strípaðr, stripóttr, stríprendr and strip n.

Noun

stripe f (definite singular stripa, indefinite plural striper, definite plural stripene)

1. a stripe
2. a strip

Derived terms

References

• “stripe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology

From Middle English benden, from Old English bendan (“to bind or bend (a bow), fetter, restrain”), from Proto-Germanic *bandijan? (“to bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?end?- (“to bind, tie”). Cognate with Middle High German benden (“to fetter”), Danish bænde (“to bend”), Norwegian bende (“to bend”), Faroese benda (“to bend, inflect”), Icelandic benda (“to bend”). More at band.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?nd, IPA^(key): /b?nd/
• (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /b?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Verb

bend (third-person singular simple present bends, present participle bending, simple past and past participle bent or (archaic) bended)

1. (transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.

2. (intransitive) To become curved.

3. (transitive) To cause to change direction.
4. (intransitive) To change direction.

5. (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
6. (intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.

7. (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

     Each to his great Father bends.

8. (transitive) To force to submit.
9. (intransitive) To submit.

10. (transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
11. (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.

12. (transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
13. (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.

14. (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.

15. (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

bend (plural bends)

1. A curve.
   • 1968, Johnny Cash, Folsom Prison Blues

     I hear the train a comin'/It's rolling round the bend

2. Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
3. (in the plural, medicine, underwater diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.

4. (heraldry) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
5. (obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
   • 1608, John Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess, Act 1, Scene 3

     Farewell, poor swain; thou art not for my bend.

6. In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
7. (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
8. (nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
9. (nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.

   the midship bends

10. (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.

Derived terms

Translations

Related terms

• bent

References

• The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [1]

Anagrams

• D. Neb.

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *band (“drop”). Compare Phrygian ???? (bedu, “water”), Sanskrit ?????? (bindú, “drop”), Middle Irish banna, baina (“drop”) and possibly Latin F?ns Bandusiae.

Noun

bend m

1. pond, water reservoir
2. idle or provocative words
3. servant, henchman

Related terms

• përbindësh

Northern Kurdish

Noun

bend ?

1. slave

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From benda, bende (“to bend”).

Noun

bend n (definite singular bendet, indefinite plural bend, definite plural benda)

1. a bend
2. a bent position
3. a butt on a thick rope

Participle

bend (neuter bendt, definite singular and plural bende)

1. past participle of benda and bende

Verb

bend

1. imperative of benda and bende

References

• “bend” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Participle

bend

1. inflection of bendr:
   1. strong feminine nominative singular
   2. strong neuter nominative/accusative plural

Verb

bend

1. second-person singular active imperative of benda

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English bend.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?b?d??/

Noun

bend m (plural bends)

1. (music, electric guitar) bend (change in pitch produced by bending a string)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English band.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bênd/

Noun

b?nd m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (music) band (group of musicians)

Declension