noun Download 🔗Share A long, relatively straight region of a single colour. Examples : "zebra stripes" color appearance Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (in the plural) The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces. Examples : "Sergeant Miller earned his stripes after many years of dedicated service. " military police Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort. Examples : "persons of the same political stripe" sign type Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow with a whip or stick. Examples : "The cruel master left red stripes on the slave's back after the whipping. " action body sensation Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance. Examples : "The zebra's distinctive stripes help it blend into the tall grass. " appearance style material color Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Any of the balls marked with stripes in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the spots. Examples : ""In pool, I'm shooting for the stripes, while my opponent is aiming for the solids." " sport game Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy. Examples : "The server's hard drive system used stripes to protect the company's important financial data, ensuring that information wasn't lost if one drive failed. " computing technology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To mark with stripes. Examples : "The children will stripes the old t-shirts with colorful paint for their art project. " appearance mark Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To lash with a whip or strap. Examples : "The angry coach threatened to stripes the disobedient players with a belt if they didn't start following the rules. " action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write. Examples : "The database administrator striped the data across four different hard drives to speed up the students' access to their grades. " computing technology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading