stripe
/stɹaɪp/ verb C2- To mark with stripes.
- To lash with a whip or strap.
- To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.
- To record (a time code) onto videotape.
He/she/it stripes · Past striped · Past participle striped · -ing form striping
Verb forms
- Base form
- stripe
- He/she/it
- stripes
- Past
- striped
- Past participle
- striped
- -ing form
- striping
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“They take orders from the Head of the Pack, and not from any striped cattle-killer.
Charlie Sloane’s slate pencil, gorgeously bedizened with striped red and yellow paper, costing two cents where ordinary pencils cost only one, which he sent up to her after dinner hour, met with a more favorable reception.
His next care on leaving the barber’s who had achieved his first metamorphosis was to enter a shop and buy a complete sailor’s suit—a garb, as we all know, very simple, and consisting of white trousers, a striped shirt, and a cap.
But, by degrees, watch-chains, necklaces, parti-colored scarves, embroidered bodices, velvet vests, elegantly worked stockings, striped gaiters, and silver buckles for the shoes, all disappeared; and Gaspard Caderousse, unable to appear abroad in his pristine splendor, had given up any further participation in the pomps and vanities, both for himself and wife, although a bitter feeling of envious discontent filled his mind as the sound of mirth and merry music from the joyous revellers reached even the miserable hostelry to which he still clung, more for the shelter than the profit it afforded.
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