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stripe
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)
- A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.
- 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.
- 8 Sep 2019, Peter Conrad in The Guardian, Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser review – heavyweight study of a critical colossus
- (in the plural) The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
- (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.
- 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;
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, Scene 2,[1]
- A slash cut into the flesh as a punishment.
- (weaving) A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
- Any of the balls marked with stripes in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the spots.
- (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)
- (transitive) To mark with stripes.
- (transitive) To lash with a whip or strap.
- (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)
- a stripe
- 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)
- a stripe
- a strip
Derived terms
References
- “stripe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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thong
English
Etymology
From Middle English thong, thwong, thwang, from Old English þwong, þwang, þweng, þwæng (“thong, band, strap, cord, strip of leather; phylactery”), from Proto-West Germanic *þwangi, from Proto-Germanic *þwangiz, *þwanguz (“coercion, constraint, band, clamp, strap”), from Proto-Indo-European *twenk- (“to squeeze, press, pressure”).
Cognate with Scots thwang, thwayng, thang (“thong”), Middle Low German dwenge (“clamp, jaws, steel-trap”), German Zwinge (“vise, clamp”), dialectal Norwegian tveng (“shoestrap, shoelace”), Icelandic þvengur (“strap, thong, latchet”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: th?ng, IPA(key): /???/
Noun
thong (plural thongs)
- A strip of leather.
- (usually in the plural, Australia, US) An item of footwear, usually of rubber, secured by two straps which join to pass between the big toe and its neighbour.
- 1964, The Beach Boys, All Summer Long
- T-shirts, cut-offs, and a pair of thongs (T-shirts, cut-offs, and a pair of thongs).
- 2006, Peter Murray, David Poole, Grant Jones, Contemporary Issues in Management and Organisational Behaviour, Thomson, page 108,
- Players turned up for questioning wearing thongs, shorts and T-shirts.
- 2009, Charles Rawlings-Way, Sydney, Lonely Planet, page 126,
- You shouldn?t face condescension if you rock into a boutique in your thongs and a singlet, but neither will you be treated like a princess just because you?ve splashed $5000 on daddy?s credit card.
- 1964, The Beach Boys, All Summer Long
- (Britain, US, New Zealand) An undergarment or swimwear consisting of very narrow strips designed to cover just the genitals and nothing more.
- No! I won't buy you a thong. You're too young for that.
- The largest section of a bullwhip constructed of many straps of braided leather.
Synonyms
- (an item of footwear): see list in flip-flop
- (an undergarment or swimwear): G-string, butt floss
Translations
See also
- sandal
Kokborok
Etymology
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Noun
thong
- pillar
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