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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stripe/#m1)

2) A stripe on a uniform can show a person's rank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stripe/#m2)

3) A stripe can also be a blow with a whip or stick as a punishment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stripe/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stripe/#x1)
- Each shirt has 5 blue stripes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stripe/#x2)
- A zebra has many black stripes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stripe/#x3)
- She painted 4 red stripes and 3 white stripes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stripe/#x4)
- No two zebras have the same stripes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stripe/#x5)
- The pattern goes red stripe, white stripe, red stripe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stripe/#x6)
- A tiger's stripes help it hide in tall grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stripe/#x7)
- The king ordered a hundred stripes to be laid on her tender body; she sighed a long sigh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stripe/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/25-horses-zebras-and-donkeys/11/)
- [Zebras have black skin, so they are usually described as black with white stripes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/25-horses-zebras-and-donkeys/12/)
- [Stripes might also confuse a lion trying to pick out one zebra from a running herd, but this is less certain.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes/7/)
- [Tiger stripes are on the skin as well as the fur, so a shaved tiger would still look striped.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes/5/)
- [A zebra crossing has black and white stripes on the road.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stripe» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stripe/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.