different between stripe vs slice

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 slice, esclice, from Old French esclice, esclis (“a piece split off”), deverbal of esclicer, esclicier (“to splinter, split up”), from Frankish *slitjan (“to split up”), from Proto-Germanic *slitjan?, from Proto-Germanic *sl?tan? (“to split, tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyd- (“to rend, injure, crumble”). Akin to Old High German sliz, gisliz (“a tear, rip”), Old High German sl?zan (“to tear”), Old English sl?tan (“to split up”). More at slite, slit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sla?s/
• Rhymes: -a?s

Noun

slice (plural slices)

1. That which is thin and broad.
2. A thin, broad piece cut off.

   a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread

3. (colloquial) An amount of anything.
4. A piece of pizza.
   • 2010, Andrea Renzoni, ?Eric Renzoni, Fuhgeddaboudit! (page 22)

     For breakfast, lunch, or dinner, the best Guido meal is a slice and a Coke.

5. (Britain) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.

   I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station.

6. A broad, thin piece of plaster.
7. A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
8. A salver, platter, or tray.
9. A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
10. One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
11. (printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
12. (golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
13. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain) Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
14. (medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
15. (falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
16. (programming) A contiguous portion of an array.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

slice (third-person singular simple present slices, present participle slicing, simple past and past participle sliced)

1. (transitive) To cut into slices.

2. (transitive) To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.

3. (transitive) To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
4. (transitive, badminton) To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
5. (transitive, golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
6. (transitive, rowing) To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
7. (transitive, soccer) To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
8. (transitive, tennis) To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

slice (not comparable)

1. (mathematics) Having the properties of a slice knot.

Further reading

• slice on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• -sicle, Celis, ILECs, Leics, Sicel, ceils, ciels, clies, sicle

French

Pronunciation

Verb

slice

1. first-person singular present indicative of slicer
2. third-person singular present indicative of slicer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of slicer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of slicer
5. second-person singular imperative of slicer

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sleggio, from *sleg, from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, strike, throw”). See also Ancient Greek ?????? (lakíz?, “to tear apart”).

Noun

slice m (nominative plural slici)

1. shell

Inflection

Derived terms

• slicén

Descendants

• Irish: slige
• Manx: shlig
• Scottish Gaelic: slige

References