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Definition: Striped |
StripedAdjective1. Marked or decorated with stripes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "striped" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| STB | English | Striped bass(= fish) | Food & Agriculture, Biology & Biotechnology |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: StripedSynonym: stripy (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Striped |
| English words defined with "striped": striped dogwood, striped maple, striped squirrel. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "striped": Calamanco Cat, Coat of many Colours, crammed stripe ♦ fire-fish ♦ lion-fish ♦ rance marble, Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks ♦ STRIPING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ turkey-fish. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "striped": Virgated. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Any world that can produce the Taj Mahal, William Shakespeare, and striped toothpaste can't be all bad. (One, Two, Three; writing credit: Ferenc Molnár; Billy Wilder) Does that reason wear a striped skirt and work in the surgery (The Last of the Mohicans; writing credit: James Fenimore Cooper; John L. Balderston) That reason wear a striped skirt and work in the surgery (The Last of the Mohicans; writing credit: James Fenimore Cooper; John L. Balderston) An international spy ring is trying to sneak ridiculous stories into the news In other news, a black and yellow striped mackerel was elected king this morning (The Muppet Show; writing credit: Joseph A. Bailey; Jack Burns) | |
Clever | Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | Santa stuffs Stephie's striped stocking. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Striped Bathing Suit (1912) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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A breakfast is set up on a blue and white striped tablecloth, including: a yellow bowl of cereal with raspberries, a glass of orange juice and a glass mug of tea. Also on the table are a brightly colored napkin and silverware in the foreground and a folded newspaper in the background. A second slide shows the same objects from a different angle. See also AV-3905. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | From an overhead angle, carrots, squash and a tomato are seen grouped in the upper left corner of a brown and black striped table. A piece of brown paper in the lower right stamped with blue letters reads: "Eat more dark green and yellow vegetables". Shot on 4x5 format. This was used in the 1989 calendar "Eat for Good Health" February 1989. See artwork: PV-19. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). | ||
![]() | Wiredrag party in Portland, Maine Back row - Ken Crosby with bow tie, Jack Sammons to his left Front row - Dragmaster Howard V. Rackliffe with striped tie. Party chief Otis Swainson to Rackliffe's left. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Old rockfish ( striped bass) caught by young fishermen. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
![]() | A fisherman catches and releases a small striped bass from the pier at Pirate's Cove. Credit: Fisheries. | ![]() | The gillnet catch being brought in. The species being fished for included, blueback herring, Alosa aestivalis; silver perch, Bairdiella chrysoura; atlantic menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannosaurus; weakfish, Cynoscion regalis; Atlantic croaker, Micropogonus undulatus; white perch, Morone americanus; striped bass or rockfish, Morone saxatilis and; bluefish, Ponatomus saltatrix. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
![]() | A representative sample of some of the species collected; gizzard shad, menhaden, bluefish, striped bass, Atlantic croaker, and white perch. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ![]() | Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. A striped hermit crab in an aquarium. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
![]() | Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Striped wintergreen - Chimaphila maculata at Swift. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). | ![]() | Reef fish feeding on damselfish eggs attached to substrate. Chaetodon miliaris are three yellow fish on bottom right. Blue striped fish are Chaetodon sp. Forcipiger longirostris is bright yellow fish in background. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Candy striped rose" by Jason Levesque Commentary: "A candy striped rose at the botanical gardens in Norfolk Virginia, Early summer of 2002." | "Striped sunset" by Jozsef Szoke Commentary: "Striped sunset." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He pointed in the case at big long sticks of striped peppermint |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Striped" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 84.03% of the time. "Striped" is used about 407 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 84.03% | 342 | 15,474 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 8.11% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 4.18% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.69% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Total | 100.00% | 407 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "striped": plateau striped whiptail ♦ stone or striped perch ♦ striped bass ♦ striped button quail ♦ striped coral root ♦ striped dogwood ♦ striped drum ♦ striped fish ♦ striped gentian ♦ striped hyena ♦ striped jasper ♦ striped killifish ♦ striped maple ♦ striped marlin ♦ striped muishond ♦ striped mullet ♦ striped or banded jasper ♦ striped perch ♦ striped prairie squirrel ♦ striped racer ♦ striped skunk ♦ striped snake ♦ striped squirrel ♦ striped tabby ♦ striped violet. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "striped": striped-leaved, striped-pyjama, striped-scarved. | |
Ending with "striped": blue-striped, green-and-white-striped, pin-striped. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "striped"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me shirita. (various references) | |
Arabic | مقلم (barred, clipping), مخطط (barred, blueprint, controlled, guided, planned, projects, ruled, schema, scheme, sketch, streaked, stripy). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | раиран (stripy), на резки (streaky, striated). (various references) | |
Chinese | 镶边, 有條紋 , 尨 (shaggy dog). (various references) | |
Czech | pruhovaný (streaked, streaky), proužkovaný (streaky). (various references) | |
Danish | stribet gryntefisk (African striped grunt, barred grunt), Stillehavs-bonit (striped bonito), stor gulstribet jordloppe (striped turnip flea beetle, turnip flea beetle, turnip fly), storhovedet multe (common grey mullet, flathead grey mullet, striped mullet), stribet bars (striped bass), stribet venusmusling (striped venus), stribet kornsmaelder (lined click beetle, striped click-beetle, striped elaterid beetle, wireworm), stribet marlin (striped marlin), stribet multe (common grey mullet, flathead grey mullet, flat-head grey mullet, striped mullet), stribet satin (striped sateen), stribet vare (striped cloth), stribet vedborer (spruce ambrosia beetle, striped ambrosia beetle), stribet atlas (striped atlas), bugstribet bonit (bonito, oceanic bonito, skipjack, skipjack tuna, stripe-bellied bonito, striped tuna), rødskæg (red mullet, striped mullet), rød mulle (red mullet, striped mullet), en art gryntefisk (African striped grunt, barred grunt, bastard grunt, lined silver grunt, silver grunt, Southeast Pacific grunt). (various references) | |
Dutch | skipjack (bonito, oceanic bonito, skipjack, skipjack tuna, stripe-bellied bonito, striped tuna), gewone harder (common grey mullet, flathead grey mullet, striped mullet), ambrosiakever (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm, spruce ambrosia beetle, striped ambrosia beetle), bonito (bonito, oceanic bonito, skipjack, stripe bellied bonito, striped tuna), gestreepte bonito (bonito, oceanic bonito, skipjack, skipjack tuna, stripe-bellied bonito, striped bonito, striped tuna), gestreepte kniptor (lined click beetle, striped click-beetle, striped elaterid beetle, wireworm), gestreepte marlijn (striped marlin), gestreepte slangekopvis (striped snake-head fish), gestreepte tonijn (bonito, oceanic bonito, skipjack, stripe bellied bonito, striped tuna), Afrikaanse gestreepte knorvis (African striped grunt), gestreepte zeebarbeel (red mullet, striped mullet), venusschelp (striped venus), grootkopharder (common grey mullet, flat-head grey mullet, striped mullet), grote gestreepte aardvlo (striped turnip flea beetle, turnip flea beetle, turnip fly), harder (common grey mullet, flathead grey mullet, flat-head grey mullet, striped mullet, thermosetting), herder (shepherd), koning van de poon (red mullet, rock mullet, striped mullet, surmullet), listao (bonito, oceanic bonito, skipjack, stripe bellied bonito, striped tuna), mul (loose, powdery, sandy), gestreepte zeebaars (striped bass). (various references) | |
Esperanto | striita oficefalo (striped snake-head fish). (various references) | |
Finnish | raitainen (streaked, streaky), raidallinen, juovainen (streaked). (various references) | |
French | rayé, à rayures, à raies. (various references) | |
German | streifte (streaked, touched), streifen-, gestreifte, gestreift (corded, streaked, streakily, striated). (various references) | |
Greek | ριγέ (stripy). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משורטט (drafted, drawn, sketched, underlined), מפוספס (laid, streaky), מרוצע, מנומר (dotted, flecked, mottled, speckled, spotted, spotty, variegated), פסי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | sávos (streaky), csíkos (banded, barred, brindled, laced, streaked, streaky, striate, striated, stripy). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bercorak (have the design of), berbelang-belang, berbelang. (various references) | |
Italian | striato (streaked, striated, tabby), zebrato (zebrine), tigrato, gallonato, a strisce (streaky, tabby), a righe (line by line, ruled). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 薮蚊 (striped mosquito), 鯨幕 (black and white striped curtain), 熊笹 (low and striped bamboo, Sasa albo-marginata), 竪縞 (striped fabric, vertical stripes), 縞物 (striped cloth), 縞柄 (striped pattern), 縞模様 (striped pattern), 縦縞 (striped fabric, vertical stripes), お召し (call, clothing, dressing, striped crepe, summons). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たてじま (striped fabric, vertical stripes), おめし (a summons, call, clothing, dressing, striped crepe, summons), しまがら (striped pattern), くまざさ (low and striped bamboo, Sasa albo-marginata), しまもの (striped cloth), しまもよう (striped pattern), くじらまく (black and white striped curtain), やぶか (striped mosquito). (various references) | |
Korean | 줄무늬 (stripe, stripes). (various references) | |
Manx | scheimmeigagh, rimmeigagh (lined, ribbed, streaked, streaky, wealed). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ipedstray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | raiado (crease, furrowed, lined, radiate, streaked, streaky, veined, veiny), listrado como zebra, listrado (brindled, streaked, streaky), com listras ou riscas. (various references) | |
Romanian | vãrgat (brindled, pied, rayed, streaked, streaky, tabby), tãrcat, dungat (streaked, streaky), crestat (dentate, jagged), bãlţat (harlequin, pied, skewbald, spotted, streaked, streaky, variegated). (various references) | |
Russian | полосатый (brindled, ribbed, streaky, striated, stripy, tabby). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prugast (corded, streaked, streaky, striated). (various references) | |
Spanish | rayado (lined, pinstripe, rifling, scoring, streaked, streaky), listado (barred, list, listing), cebrado, a rayas. (various references) | |
Swedish | randig (lined, stripy, tabby, zebra). (various references) | |
Turkish | çizgili (banded, barred, brindled, fasciated, lined, liny, ruled, streaky, striate, striated, tabby), çizgi çizgi (streaked, streaky). (various references) | |
Turkmen | zolakly. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | смугастий (bandy, barred, belted, ribbed, streaked, streaky, tabby, zonate, zoned). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | có vằn (mottled, striate, striated, stripy), có sọc (fasciated, striate, striated, stripy). (various references) | |
Welsh | rhesog (ribbed). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Chamelea gallina, Euthynnus pelamis, Katsuwonus pelamis, Makaira audax, Morone saxatilis, muge cabot, muge céphale, muge commun, Mugil cephalus, mulet à grosse tête, mulet céphale, mulet commun, Mullus barbatus, Roccus saxatilis, Sarda orientalis, surmullet, Tetrapturus audax, Thynnus pelamys, VE mulet cabot, VE rouget de roche, Venus gallina. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "striped": pinstriped. (additional references) | |
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"Striped" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atrypid, Estrapade, straped, striced, strifed, striged, stripen, stripend, stripple, strype, triped. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "striped" (pronounced strī"pt) |
| 4 | -r ī" p t | griped. |
| 3 | -ī" p t | hyped, piped, sniped, swiped, typed, wiped. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: spirted. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-p-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: direst, driest, esprit, prides, priest, prised, redips, redipt, ripest, spider, spired, spited, sprite, stiped, stride, stripe, trepid, tripes. | |
-2 letters: deist, diets, dirts, dites, drest, dries, drips, dript, edits, peris, piers, piste, prest, pride, pried, pries, prise, redip, resid, rides, riped, ripes, rites, siped, sired, sited, speir, spied, spier, spire, spirt, spite, sprit. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-p-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: diopters, dioptres, disputer, peridots, predicts, preedits, priested, proteids, rapidest, respited, riposted, riptides, scripted, spirited, sprinted, spritzed, stripped, stupider, tiderips, topsider, traipsed. | |
+2 letters: aspirated, depicters, depictors, depositor, dipterans, dipterous, disparate, disparted, disported, disputers, disrepute, disrupted, disrupter, distemper, drippiest, dripstone, droopiest, eupatrids, misparted, persisted, piedforts, practised, preadmits, preaudits, predigest, president, presifted, proteides, redeposit, reposited, spermatid, therapsid, topsiders, tripodies, upstirred. | |
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