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Striped

Definition: Striped

Striped

Adjective

1. 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)

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Striped

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField
STBEnglishStriped bass(= fish)Food & Agriculture, Biology & Biotechnology

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Striped

Synonym: stripy (adj). (additional references)

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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 stripefire-fishlion-fishrance marble, Redundant Arrays of Independent DisksSTRIPING-MACHINE OPERATORturkey-fish. (references)
Etymologies containing "striped": Virgated. (references)

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Modern Usage: Striped

DomainUsage

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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Commercial Usage: Striped

DomainTitle

Books

  • Daddy Wore Striped Shorts (reference)

  • L.L. Bean Fly Fishing for Striped Bass Handbook (reference)

  • The Striped Bass Book: A Complete Guide to Catching America's Unpredictable Game Fish (reference)

  • The Zebra: Striped Horse (Animal Close-Ups) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Angler's Academy - Striped Bass - "Pacific Coast Stripers on the California Delta" (reference)

  • Orvis Hooked On Fly Fishing, OCC Striped Bass in Cape Cod, MA (reference)

  • How to Catch Striped Bass (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Striped

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Photo Album: Striped

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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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Digital Photo Gallery: Striped
 

"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.

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Use in Literature: Striped

TitleAuthorQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Striped

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)84.03%34215,474
Lexical Verb (past tense)8.11%3360,273
Lexical Verb (past participle)4.18%1785,106
Noun (proper)3.69%1590,616
                    Total100.00%407N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Striped

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Striped

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

striped bass

336

background striped

15

striped bass fishing

104

aguilera christina striped

15

striped bass recipe

70

striped comforter

14

striped

51

striped tube sock

14

striped telamonia two

42

striped wallpaper

13

antelope striped

39

bass record striped world

13

black striped wallaby

39

striped dolphin

12

bass restaurant striped

34

bass hybrid striped

12

striped sock

31

striped tie

11

striped skunk

26

snake striped

11

stone striped

23

bass.com striped

10

striped bass picture

23

grosgrain ribbon striped

10

striped shirt

22

justified striped tour

10

bass philadelphia striped

19

curtain striped

10

striped bedding

16

striped wall

10

striped shower curtain

16

bass fishing striped tip

9

fabric striped

16

striped wire

9

catch striped bass

15

bass rig striped

9

striped sheet

15

spider striped

9

dimidiata striped telamonia telamonia two

15

cover duvet striped

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Striped

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 , (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.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Striped

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 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.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Striped

Derivations

Words ending with "striped": pinstriped. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Striped"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "striped" (pronounced strī"pt)
4-r ī" p tgriped.
3-ī" p thyped, piped, sniped, swiped, typed, wiped.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Striped

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Usage Frequency
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Translations: Ancient
15. Abbreviations
16. Acronyms
17. Derivations
18. Rhymes
19. Anagrams
20. Bibliography


  

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