Library / English Dictionary

STRIPES

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service

Example:

they earned their stripes in Kuwait

Synonyms:

chevron; grade insignia; stripe; stripes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("stripes" is a kind of...):

badge (an emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.))

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

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 Context examples: 

Other hypotheses include the idea that stripes may confuse predators, facilitate social interactions within the herd, and regulate body temperature.

(Zebra stripes may 'dazzle' pathogen-packing horse flies, Wikinews)

Scientists from the University of Bristol and UC Davis say zebras may have gotten their stripes to confuse ectoparasites, such as flies.

(Zebra stripes may 'dazzle' pathogen-packing horse flies, Wikinews)

Stripes may dazzle flies in some way once they are close enough to see them with their low-resolution eyes, said study co-author and Royal Society University Research Fellow Martin How.

(Zebra stripes may 'dazzle' pathogen-packing horse flies, Wikinews)

While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher—shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange with monograms of Indian blue.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)