stripe
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.
zebra stripes
- 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 lightning bolt of intellect.
- 3.
(in plural)(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
a tyrant of a very different 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 or lash with a whip, stick, or scourge.
1735, James Thomson, The Four Seasons, and Other Poems, London: J. Millan and A. Millar, “Winter,” lines 353-354, p. 21, [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.
- 10.
(slang)(motor racing, slang) The start/finish line.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To mark with stripes.
- 2.
(transitive)To lash with a whip or strap.
- 3.
(transitive)(transitive, computing) To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.
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From Middle English stripe, strype, from Middle Dutch - or strîpe, from *strīpā, *strīpō, from Proto-Germanic *strīpô. Cognate with Striepe, stripe, streep, Striepe, Striep, Streep (stripe), Streifen, stribe.