📖 S — The English dictionary · page 104

striker — Everyday, meaning 1: In football (soccer), a striker is a player whose main job is to score goals.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A striker is a worker who is on strike: refusing to work to protest about pay or conditions.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A striker is a person or thing that hits something, like the hammer that hits a bell or the part of a matchbox you strike a match on.↗ Example: Our striker scored three goals.↗ · The striker kicked the ball into the top corner.↗ · If a striker scores 12 goals in 6 games, that is 2 goals a game.↗ · The strikers held signs outside the factory gate.↗ · She plays as a striker for the girls' team.↗ · Strike the match on the striker on the side of the box.↗

striking — Everyday, meaning 1: Striking means hitting something hard: the ball striking the window.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: For a clock, striking means ringing the hours: the clock is striking six.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Striking also means very easy to notice, eye-catching: a striking red dress.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Striking workers are on strike: they stop work to ask for better pay or conditions.↗ Example: The clock is striking 6.↗ · How many times does a clock strike from 1 to 12?↗ · The clock takes 10 seconds for striking 6.↗ · Each striking of the bell lasts 2 seconds.↗ · Lightning is striking the hills.↗ · She wore a striking yellow coat.↗ · There is a striking likeness between the twins.↗ · He was striking the nail with a hammer.↗ · The bus drivers are striking for better pay.↗ · The clocks were striking twelve when John awoke.↗

string — Everyday, meaning 1: A string is a thin cord used for tying things.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A string is one of the tight wires or threads on a guitar, violin or piano that make sounds.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A string of things is a row of them on a thread, like a string of beads, or a series: a string of wins.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To string is to put things on a thread.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: «No strings attached» means with no hidden conditions.↗ Example: She has 20 meters of string.↗ · He cut the string into 4 equal pieces.↗ · A guitar has 6 strings.↗ · Each string has 15 beads.↗ · Tie the parcel with string.↗ · Use a piece of string to measure round the plate.↗ · The violin is a string instrument.↗ · We strung lights across the garden.↗ · The strings are snapped; I've nothing to play on!"↗ · For the Leader; with string-music; on the Sheminith.↗ (Writings PSA.6.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Praise Him with the timbrel and dance; praise Him with stringed instruments and the pipe.↗ (Writings PSA.150.4, JPS 1917)↗ · Give thanks unto the LORD with harp, sing praises unto Him with the psaltery of ten strings.↗ (Writings PSA.33.2, JPS 1917)↗

stringy — Everyday, meaning 1: Stringy food is full of tough fibres like strings and is hard to chew: stringy meat, stringy celery.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Stringy hair is thin, hangs in long straight strands and often looks greasy or untidy.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A stringy person is thin with lean, wiry muscles.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Stringy also describes anything that stretches into thin strings, like melted cheese.↗ Example: This beef is stringy and hard to chew.↗ · Pull the stringy bits off the celery.↗ · The melted cheese on the pizza was all stringy.↗ · After swimming, my hair was wet and stringy.↗ · The old farmer was stringy and strong.↗ · Runner beans get stringy if you pick them late.↗ · Her stringy fringe hung over her eyes.↗

strip — Everyday, meaning 1: A strip is a long, narrow piece of something, like paper, cloth or land.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To strip means to take off a cover or layer: strip the old paint.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To strip a bed is to take off the sheets.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A comic strip is a short story told in a row of pictures.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A sports strip (UK) is the clothes a team wears.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: To strip can also mean to take off all your clothes.↗ Example: She cut the paper into 8 strips.↗ · Each strip is 3 inches wide.↗ · A strip of land is 50 meters long.↗ · He used 12 strips of tape.↗ · We used fraction strips to show that two quarters make a half.↗ · Dad stripped the old wallpaper off the wall.↗ · I love reading the comic strips.↗ · The team wore their new home strip.↗ · I'll strip myself naked and lie down under the holy pictures.↗ · And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall die there.'↗ (Torah NUM.20.26, JPS 1917)↗ · They shall also strip thee of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.↗ (Prophets EZK.23.26, JPS 1917)↗ · I have decked my couch with coverlets, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.↗ (Writings PRO.7.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.↗ (Prophets ISA.47.2, JPS 1917)↗

stripe — Everyday, meaning 1: A stripe is a long thin line of colour on something, like on a zebra or a flag.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A stripe on a uniform can show a person's rank.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A stripe can also be a blow with a whip or stick as a punishment.↗ Example: The flag has 13 stripes.↗ · Each shirt has 5 blue stripes.↗ · A zebra has many black stripes.↗ · She painted 4 red stripes and 3 white stripes.↗ · No two zebras have the same stripes.↗ · The pattern goes red stripe, white stripe, red stripe.↗ · A tiger's stripes help it hide in tall grass.↗ · The king ordered a hundred stripes to be laid on her tender body; she sighed a long sigh.↗ · burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.↗ (Torah EXO.21.25, JPS 1917)↗ · Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should be dishonoured before thine eyes.↗ (Torah DEU.25.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.↗ (Writings PRO.19.29, JPS 1917)↗ · Sharp wounds cleanse away evil; so do stripes that reach the inward parts.↗ (Writings PRO.20.30, JPS 1917)↗ · A rebuke entereth deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred stripes into a fool.↗ (Writings PRO.17.10, JPS 1917)↗

stripling — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: An old word for a boy or young man who is no longer a child but not yet fully grown.↗ Example: And the king said: 'Inquire thou whose son the stripling is.'↗ (Prophets 1SA.17.56, JPS 1917)↗

stripped — Everyday, meaning 1: Stripped is the past of «strip»: took off a covering or layer, such as paint, bark or sheets.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Stripped can mean took off your clothes.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Stripped of something means something was taken away from someone, often as a punishment («stripped of his medal»).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: As an adjective, stripped means bare, with the cover taken off («stripped wood»).↗ Example: We stripped the beds on Saturday.↗ · Dad stripped the old paint off the door.↗ · The wind stripped the leaves from the trees.↗ · The runner was stripped of her medal for cheating.↗ · The swimmers stripped off and jumped into the lake.↗ · Goats stripped the bark from the young trees.↗ · The electrician stripped the end of the wire.↗ · The house was stripped of furniture before the move.↗ · They all stripped off their shifts, and went into the water.↗ · And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments from mount Horeb onward.↗ (Torah EXO.33.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colours that was on him; (Torah GEN.37.23, JPS 1917)↗ · And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount; and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.↗ (Torah NUM.20.28, JPS 1917)↗ · He leadeth priests away stripped, and overthroweth the mighty.↗ (Writings JOB.12.19, JPS 1917)↗ · He leadeth counsellors away stripped, and judges maketh He fools.↗ (Writings JOB.12.17, JPS 1917)↗ · He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.↗ (Writings JOB.19.9, JPS 1917)↗

stripping — Everyday, meaning 1: Taking off a covering or layer: stripping wallpaper, stripping paint, stripping a bed.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Taking off clothes; undressing (for a doctor, a swim).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Taking something away from someone officially: stripping a winner of a medal.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (adult) Taking off clothes slowly as a show for money; not a topic for school.↗ Example: Mum is stripping the beds to wash the sheets.↗ · We spent Saturday stripping old wallpaper.↗ · The wind was stripping leaves from the trees.↗ · The runner was stripped of his medal for cheating.↗ · The boys were stripping off to jump in the lake.↗ · Stripping old paint needs gloves and fresh air.↗

stripy — Everyday, meaning 1: Stripy means having stripes — long thin lines or bands of different colours.↗ Example: I'm wearing my stripy socks today.↗ · The zebra's stripy coat helps confuse lions.↗ · The bee has a black and yellow stripy body.↗ · We sat on stripy deckchairs at the beach.↗ · The tiger's stripy fur hides it in the long grass.↗ · My little sister drew a stripy rainbow snake.↗

strive — Everyday, meaning 1: To try very hard to do or get something, over a long time: strive to do your best.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To struggle or fight against something.↗ Example: We strive to be kind to everyone.↗ · She strove to finish the race.↗ · Our school motto is «Strive and Succeed».↗ · The team strives to improve every week.↗ · Mole strove to keep up with the Rat.↗ · Scientists strive to find cures for diseases.↗ · They strove against the storm all night.↗ · But the wife had walked far, and was very tired, and strive as she would, she fell sound asleep.↗ · Wherefore the people strove with Moses, and said: 'Give us water that we may drink.'↗ And Moses said unto them: 'Why strive ye with me? wherefore do ye try the LORD?'↗ (Torah EXO.17.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And of Levi he said: Thy Thummim and Thy Urim be with Thy holy one, whom Thou didst prove at Massah, with whom Thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah; (Torah DEU.33.8, JPS 1917)↗ · When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets; (Torah DEU.25.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And do not I strive with those that rise up against Thee?↗ (Writings PSA.139.21, JPS 1917)↗ · Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.↗ (Writings PRO.3.30, JPS 1917)↗ · Strive, O LORD, with them that strive with me; fight against them that fight against me.↗ (Writings PSA.35.1, JPS 1917)↗

striving — Everyday, meaning 1: Striving means trying very hard for a long time to get or reach something: «She is striving to improve».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: As a noun, striving is the effort of trying hard, or the things a person tries hard for.↗ Example: Our school motto is «Striving for excellence».↗ · She is always striving to beat her best time.↗ · The team kept striving even when they were losing.↗ · Striving for a goal takes patience.↗ · He is striving to learn his times tables by Friday.↗ · The explorers were striving to reach the South Pole.↗ · All that striving paid off when she won the prize.↗ · He said he was striving after truth, and was considered by his aunt "a model and an example."↗ · And he went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were striving together; and he said to him that did the wrong: 'Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?'↗ (Torah EXO.2.13, JPS 1917)↗ · And the name of the place was called Massah, and Meribah, because of the striving of the children of Israel, and because they tried the LORD, saying: 'Is the LORD among us, or not?'↗ (Torah EXO.17.7, JPS 1917)↗ · This also is vanity and a striving after wind.↗ (Writings ECC.2.26, JPS 1917)↗ · Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind.↗ (Writings ECC.4.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Better is a handful of quietness, than both the hands full of labour and striving after wind.↗ (Writings ECC.4.6, JPS 1917)↗

stroke — Everyday, meaning 1: To stroke an animal or person is to move your hand gently over it, usually again and again.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A stroke is one movement of a pen or brush, or of an arm or oar in swimming or rowing.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A stroke is a hit, as in tennis, golf or cricket.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A stroke is a serious illness when blood cannot get to part of the brain.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A stroke of a clock is one ring: «on the stroke of twelve».↗ Everyday, meaning 6: «A stroke of luck» is a sudden piece of good luck.↗ Example: Stroke the cat gently.↗ · The dog loves it when you stroke its ears.↗ · Breaststroke is my favourite swimming stroke.↗ · Grandad had a stroke and is in hospital.↗ · Draw the letter with one stroke.↗ · On the stroke of midnight the coach turned into a pumpkin.↗ · Finding my lost ring was a stroke of luck.↗ · Ask before you stroke someone's dog.↗ · He swam a few more strokes.↗ · Two, three, or four strokes are so combined as to indicate the (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · To avoid writing too many strokes, the Chinese made one stroke to represent five units.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · They are only a combination of two, three, and four strokes, to indicate the respective numbers.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.↗ (Writings PRO.18.6, JPS 1917)↗ · Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with strokes.↗ (Writings PSA.89.33, JPS 1917)↗ · Remove Thy stroke from off me; I am consumed by the blow of Thy hand.↗ (Writings PSA.39.11, JPS 1917)↗