Synonyms for stripe
straɪpstripe

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1. stripe

   A blow is a sudden impact, as of a fist or a club; a stroke is a sweeping movement; as, the stroke of a sword, of an oar, of the arm in swimming. A shock is the sudden encounter with some heavy body; as, colliding railway-trains meet with a shock; the shock of battle. A slap is given with the open hand, a lash with a whip, thong, or the like; we speak also of the cut of a whip. A buffet or cuff is given only with the hand; a blow either with hand or weapon. A cuff is a somewhat sidelong blow, generally with the open hand; as, a cuff or box on the ear. A stripe is the effect or mark of a stroke. In the metaphorical sense, blow is used for sudden, stunning, staggering calamity or sorrow; stroke for sweeping disaster, and also for sweeping achievement and success. We say a stroke of paralysis, or a stroke of genius. We speak of the buffets of adverse fortune. Shock is used of that which is at once sudden, violent, and prostrating; we speak of a shock of electricity, the shock of an amputation, a shock of surprise. Compare BEAT.

   Synonyms:
   blow, box, buffet, calamity, concussion, cuff, cut, disaster, knock, lash, misfortune, rap, shock, stroke, thump

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1. band, banding, stripenoun

   an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material

   Synonyms:
   dance band, lot, dance orchestra, set, striation, circle, isthmus, stria, streak, band, ring, bar, chevron, stripes, grade insignia, banding

2. stripenoun

   a piece of braid, usually on the sleeve, indicating military rank or length of service

   Synonyms:
   band, bar, chevron, stripes, streak, banding, grade insignia

3. chevron, stripe, stripes, grade insignianoun

   V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service

   "they earned their stripes in Kuwait"

   Synonyms:
   band, banding, bar, streak, chevron, stripes, grade insignia

4. stripenoun

   a kind or category

   "businessmen of every stripe joined in opposition to the proposal"

   Synonyms:
   band, bar, chevron, stripes, streak, banding, grade insignia

5. stripe, streak, barverb

   a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background

   "a green toad with small black stripes or bars"; "may the Stars and Stripes forever wave"

   Synonyms:
   cake, prevention, legal profession, legal community, barroom, ginmill, measure, bar, run, streak, band, taproom, chevron, stripes, grade insignia, saloon, banding

6. stripeverb

   mark with stripes

Matched Categories

1. • Badge
   • Kind
   • Mark
   • Military

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1. stripeverb

   Synonyms:
   streak

2. stripenoun

   Synonyms:
   streak

3. stripenoun

   Synonyms:
   stroke (with a lash), blow

4. stripenoun

   Synonyms:
   wale, mark of the lash

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1. stripenoun

   Synonyms:
   streak, band, wale, wheal, whelk, ridge, striation, stria

2. stripenoun

   Synonyms:
   sort, likeness, color, kind

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1. List of paraphrases for "stripe":

   striping, striated, band, banda, bunch, strip, scratch, banding, partition, gang

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1. Vander Plaats:

   I can’t believe Iowans of any stripe would endorse this keynote speaker.

2. Gaston Kroub:

   Sophisticated companies like Verizon understand that they could be approached by licensors of any stripe at any time.

3. John Rzeznik:

   The country is so divided but people from all walks of life, a few thousand of them will go into a room and listen to you sing and sing back with you and no body is really thinking about what's going on [ in the world ], people are just relaxing and having a good time. It's not a red state versus blue state, mask versus no mask. People from every political stripe everywhere just get together and they have one thing in common and that's music that they enjoy.

4. Mark DeMoss:

   We don't apply it in business, in school, hiring of a plumber, a painter or an architect, there is nothing else we do in life where this person has to be my stripe of Christian or I won't work with them. I think it is a double standard litmus test.

5. Mazie Hirono:

   Sometimes I dont think you listen, so, how many times have I had to say that we all should be denouncing violent extremistsof every stripe.