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Stripes   /straɪps/   Listen
Stripes

noun
1.
V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service.  Synonyms: chevron, grade insignia, stripe.



Stripe

noun
1.
An adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material.  Synonyms: band, banding.
2.
A piece of braid, usually on the sleeve, indicating military rank or length of service.
3.
V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service.  Synonyms: chevron, grade insignia, stripes.
4.
A kind or category.
5.
A narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background.  Synonyms: bar, streak.  "May the Stars and Stripes forever wave"
verb
(past & past part. striped; pres. part. striping)
1.
Mark with stripes.



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"Stripes" Quotes from Famous Books



... you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming; Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there; Oh, say, does ...
— Poems of American Patriotism • Brander Matthews (Editor)

... of the harmful results of contact with a gospel which we do not accept, as exemplified in the increase of responsibility and the consequent increase of condemnation. I only quote Christ's words, 'The servant that knew his Lord's will, and did it not, shall be beaten with many stripes.' ...
— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren

... shouldn't wonder, now, if one might not, in order to start the town, get up some kind of a little summer-pavilion there, on the top of the mountain,—something on the plan of the Tip-Top House at Mount Washington, you know,—hang the stars and stripes off the roof, if you're not particular, and call it The Teuton-American. That would give you your rightful priority, you see. By the beard of the Prophet, as they say in Cairo, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 30, April, 1860 • Various

... pervade inorganic nature, would lead us to anticipate a similar order and harmony in the organic world. And this is no doubt true, but it by no means follows that the particular order and harmony observed among them should be that which we see. Surely the stripes of dun horses, and the teeth of the foetal 'Balaena', are not explained by the "existence of general laws of Nature." Mr. Darwin endeavours to explain the exact order of organic nature which exists; not the mere fact ...
— Criticisms on "The Origin of Species" - From 'The Natural History Review', 1864 • Thomas H. Huxley

... never twice the same, but ever changing in colour as in shape, while stripes and zigzags of lightning played here and there with terrifying menace, those walls of wind held an awfully fascinating power ...
— The Lost City • Joseph E. Badger, Jr.


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