stripe: Meaning and Definition of

stripe

1. a relatively long, narrow band of a different color, appearance, weave, material, or nature from the rest of a surface or thing: the stripes of a zebra.
2. a fabric or material containing such a band or bands.
3. a strip of braid, tape, or the like.
4. She earned her stripes as a traveling sales representative and then moved up to district manager.
1. a number or combination of such strips, worn on a military, naval, or other uniform as a badge of rank, service, good conduct, combat wounds, etc.
2. Informal.status or recognition as a result of one's efforts, experience, or achievements:She earned her stripes as a traveling sales representative and then moved up to district manager.
5. a strip, or long, narrow piece of anything: a stripe of beach.
6. a streak or layer of a different nature within a substance.
7. style, variety, sort, or kind: a man of quite a different stripe.
8. Also calleda strip of iron oxide layer on the edge of a film that is used for recording and reproducing a magnetic sound track.

1. to mark or furnish with a stripe or stripes.

stripe

1. a stroke with a whip, rod, etc., as in punishment.