stripe

«stripe» in Mova's school dictionary: a long thin line of colour on something, like on a zebra… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (stripe, stripes)

meaning for a pupil

1) A stripe is a long thin line of colour on something, like on a zebra or a flag. tree →

2) A stripe on a uniform can show a person's rank. tree →

3) A stripe can also be a blow with a whip or stick as a punishment. tree →

sense in the lessons

Maths: a thing counted on flags, shirts, animals or patterns; patterns of stripes that repeat. Science: zebras and tigers have stripes for camouflage. Everyday: a striped shirt, a stripy jumper, the stars and stripes (the US flag).

examples

• The flag has 13 stripes. tree →
• Each shirt has 5 blue stripes. tree →
• A zebra has many black stripes. tree →
• She painted 4 red stripes and 3 white stripes. tree →
• No two zebras have the same stripes. tree →
• The pattern goes red stripe, white stripe, red stripe. tree →
• A tiger's stripes help it hide in tall grass. tree →
• The king ordered a hundred stripes to be laid on her tender body; she sighed a long sigh. tree →

note

Countable: a stripe, stripes; adjective striped or stripy. The thing counted; «each shirt has 5 stripes» is a rate, so stripes = shirts × 5. Trap: stripe is not strip.

In the corpora

• Every zebra has its own stripe pattern, and the best evidence says the stripes help keep biting flies from landing.
• Zebras have black skin, so they are usually described as black with white stripes.
• Stripes might also confuse a lion trying to pick out one zebra from a running herd, but this is less certain.
• Tiger stripes are on the skin as well as the fur, so a shaved tiger would still look striped.
• A zebra crossing has black and white stripes on the road.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «stripe» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.