stripedadj.
/strʌɪpt/ 1.
a. Marked with a stripe or stripes, having a band or bands of colour, streaked.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > [adjective]
ray1374
barreda1387
rayed?a1400
bendedc1400
scowledc1440
listeda1500
burledc1500
palya1509
stripy1513
rawed1534
straked1537
railye1539
rowed1552
begaired1554
pirnie1597
tiger-marked1597
tiger-striped1597
interlined1601
waled1602
striped1604
panached1664
strip1666
ribboned1790
zebraed1806
zebrinea1810
banded1823
sparred1827
notate1857
zebraic1858
stroked1896
tigered1969
bestriped-
the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > colour or texture > [adjective] > difference in colour
striped1604
heterochromic1911
1604 Rates Marchandizes sig. B2 Canuas vocat. Stript or tufted with threed.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 174 The Greekes..weare Shasses, that is striped linnen (commonly white and blew) wound about the skirts of a little cap.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 24 Their Junks had three Masts, wearing an East-India strip'd Ancient.
1751 Rep. Comm. Linen Manuf. (1773) II. 293 Chequed and Striped Linen.
1753 Extracts Trial J. Stewart in Scots Mag. July 343/2 Blue stripped trowsers.
1822 Ld. Byron Heaven & Earth i. iii, in Liberal 1 181 And the striped tiger shall lie down to die.
1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. 407 Striped (vittatus): when there are longitudinal stripes of one colour crossing another.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ix. 62 The shining snow with its striped faults and precipices.
1874 H. H. Cole Catal. Objects Indian Art S. Kensington Mus. 261 Woven striped pattern of green, yellow, and red..stripes alternating with bands of red.
b. In numerous specific names of animals, plants, and minerals (see quots.); also striped bass, a large North American freshwater or marine bass of the genus Roccus, esp. R. saxatilis; striped dogwood, Acer pennsylvanicum; striped gopher, a ground squirrel, Citellus decemlineatus, found in North America; striped maple, A. pennsylvanicum (or striatum), moosewood; striped mouse, a mouse with one or more stripes along its back, found in Africa and belonging to the genus Rhabdomys or Lemniscomys; striped squirrel, one of several small rodents with striped markings, esp. the North American chipmunk; striped tuna = skipjack tuna n. at skipjack n. 4; striped wampum, the North American snake Abastor erythrogrammus (Cent. Dict.).
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [noun] > family Sciuridae (squirrel) > genus Tamias (ground-squirrel) > tamias striatus (chipmunk)
chipping squirrel1749
striped squirrel1796
hackee1826
chipmunk1830
chip squirrel1830
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Serranidae (sea-bass) > [noun] > member of genus Roccus
rockfish1605
squid-hound1794
striped bass1818
sand perch1878
greenhead1884
striper1945
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Scombroidei (mackerel) > [noun] > family Scombridae > katsuwonus pelamis (skipjack tuna)
tuna1881
striped tuna1922
skipjack tuna1961
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Muridae > other types of mouse or rat
rock rat1781
Otomys1834
rabbit rat1837
deer-mouse1840
bamboo rat1881
muskrat1884
sigmodont1884
grasshopper mouse1888
veld rat1905
striped mouse1932
Sprague-Dawley1951
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [noun] > family Sciuridae (squirrel) > genus Spermophilus (spermophile) > other types of
striped gopher1941
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole (1904) 593 The peare of Ierusalem, or the stript peare, whose barke while it is young, is as plainly seene to be stript with greene, red, and yellow, as the fruit it selfe is also.
1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 207 Striped Wrasse.
1781 T. Pennant Hist. Quadrupeds I. 250 Hyæna..Striped.
1781 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. i. 349 Striped Flycatcher.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 203 The Striped Squirrel is still less than the [red squirrel].
1815 A. Aikin Man. Mineral. (ed. 2) 244 Striped jasper. Occurs massive.
1818 Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev. 2 295 The striped bass..is another excellent salt-water fish.
1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 25 The Striped Hawk (Deilephila Livornica).
1842 Z. Thompson Hist. Vermont i. 174 Striped Maple. Acer Pennsylvanicum.
1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 323 I am on the alert for the first signs of spring, to hear..the striped squirrel's chirp.
1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 458 Striped bass.
1900 H. A. Bryden Animals Afr. v. 48 The pretty little Striped Barbary Mouse..is a very different kind of animal.]
1901 H. Seebohm Birds of Siberia xxx. 308 The peasant had shot me a couple of striped squirrels.
1922 Pacific Fisherman Feb. 12/2 Striped tuna..is required to be designated with the qualifying adjective ‘striped’.
1932 Discovery Nov. 364/2 Pythons are so sluggish that they have been nibbled to death by striped mice.
1941 E. T. Seton Trail of Artist-naturalist 299 Gone..also the striped gopher, whose labyrinths are only four inches down.
1951 Tressler & Lemon Marine Products of Commerce (ed. 2) xx. 445 Skipjack..is also known as the striped tuna from the markings on the body.
1956 W. R. Bird Off-trail in Nova Scotia ii. 48 I've been after striped bass in many places up and down the coast of America but this is the best of them all.
1963 Amer. Speech 38 40 Striped dogwood, false dogwood. Striped maple, Acer pennsylvanicum (Clute).
1963 G. H. Thomson Crocus Country xx. 133 At this time [sc. 1905] there were quite a few striped gophers left, though later they entirely disappeared, driven out, it was said, by their bigger grey cousins.
1973 Standard Encycl. Southern Afr. IX. 248/1 Some, like the striped mouse.., are diurnal.
1974 Calhoun Times (St. Matthews, S. Carolina) 18 Apr. 3/3 Some 200 striped bass are swimming through Lakes Marion and Moultrie with special tags attached.
c. Of muscular fibre: Divided by transverse bands into striations.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > muscle substance > [adjective]
muscular1673
musculary1679
staminal1830
striated1846
brawn-like1849
striped1850
myoid1857
smooth1860
myoepithelial1881
myoblastic1890
sarcoplasmic1891
myofibrillar1927
myoplasmic1960
myofibrillary1975
1850 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 140 515 Muscles are now named according to their function, voluntary and unvoluntary; or according to their structure, striped and unstriped.
1854 Orr's Circle Sci., Organic Nat. I. 48 One of these [kinds] occurs in the voluntary muscles, and is named, from conspicuous cross markings, the striped muscular fibre.
1880 Gibbes Histol. 73 Striped muscle is best shown in one of the large water beetles, Hydrophilus piceus.
d. Masonry. striped work, chisel marks made across a stone at an angle of 45°.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > [noun] > stonework or masonry > types of
ashlar-work1398
rough wall1398
keying1483
corbelling1548
rustic1610
channel1611
rustic work1615
ledge1624
coffer-work1668
rubble work1675
canal1723
rockwork1755
ashlaring1758
rubble1815
ragwork1840
striped work1842
1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. ii. iii. 519 Striped work must also be first droved and then striped.
e. Of a person: Entitled to wear a (good-conduct, etc.) stripe.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > insignia > [adjective] > entitled to wear stripes
striped1890
1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 June 5/2 in the E.C. district all the striped men were ordered to have their stripes forfeited.
f. striped trousers (typically worn by civil servants, businessmen, etc.), used allusively to indicate the wearer's status, and, by extension, bureaucracy, formality, etc.; by metonymy, a civil servant, etc.; so striped-trouser(ed) adj.; similarly (chiefly U.S.) striped pants. Cf. pinstripe n. and adj., pin-striped adj.
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society > authority > office > [adjective] > bureaucratic
functionary1668
bureaucratic1800
tape-tying1832
bureaucrat1849
red-tapish1850
red-tapey1860
tape-bound1900
tape-tied1900
striped-trouser(ed)1934
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > civil service > [adjective]
striped-trouser(ed)1934
society > authority > office > [noun] > officialism or bureaucracy
red tape1736
bureaucracy1815
bureauism1829
red-tapery1831
red-tapism1834
officiality1841
functionarism1842
officialism1849
red-tapedom1850
red tapeworm1851
tapism1852
green-ferret1853
officialty1853
paperasserie1856
paperchase1856
paper-chasing1876
departmentalism1886
Whitehallism1915
striped trousers1958
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > civil service > [noun]
servicec1325
public service1576
Whitehall1716
civil service1816
striped trousers1958
1934 D. Thomas Let. Jan. (1987) 37 Oh to look..different from the striped trouser lads.
1945 ‘G. Orwell’ in New Saxon Pamphlets iii. 38 The striped-trousered ones will rule, but so long as they are forced to maintain an intelligentsia, the intelligentsia will have a certain amount of autonomy.
1946 A. Koestler Thieves in Night 220 At the end emerged the striped-trousered finished product.
1958 S. Hyland Who goes Hang? xxxiii. 140 He was almost in tears. Black tears with striped trousers.
1968 W. Safire New Lang. Politics 398/2 The diplomatic niceties of ‘striped-pants’ diplomacy.
1972 M. Gilbert Body of Girl xxiv. 206 A crook in striped trousers turns my stomach.
1974 ‘D. Kyle’ Raft of Swords x. 97 They may be useful. So may the striped-trousers in the Foreign Secretary's entourage.
1976 G. Markstein Man from Yesterday xi. 59 ‘Who's had to apologize?’ ‘The gentlemen in striped pants.’
1977 Time 9 May 22/3 His youthful diplomatic appointee's aversion to striped-pants airs.
1977 ‘J. le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy i. 24 Ring every damned striped-pants in the Colony!
1981 New Standard 1 Sept. 14/6 An old-fashioned striped-trouser diplomat.
g. Of cine film: having a magnetic stripe (stripe n.3 1e).
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1956 J. J. Rose Amer. Cinematographer (ed. 9) 7 (advt.) Your pre-striped film with magnetic sound lip-synchronized to your picture.]
1972 E. Schultz & D. Schultz How to make Exciting Home Movies xi. 131 Your splicer can get magnetized when it's used on a film already striped.
2. U.S. ? = streaked adj. 2.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > [adjective]
reigheOE
drofc1000
druvyOE
restlessOE
worya1225
forstraughtc1386
unquertc1390
unsaughtc1390
ill (evil) at easea1400
unrofula1400
unquietc1400
unrestya1413
unquieted?a1425
unrestful?c1425
unpeaceda1475
out of quieta1500
inquiet?1504
uneasya1513
perturbed1538
unquietous?1545
disquieted?1548
astraught1564
astraughted1565
agitate1567
turmoiled1570
disquiet1587
distroubled1590
weltered1590
disturbed1593
twitcheda1594
troublesome1596
stract1598
uncomposed1601
discomposed1603
incomposed1608
uncouth1660
unserene1664
chagrin1665
agitated1684
perturbated1704
disordered1711
perturbate1741
chagrineda1754
nervish1760
uncomfortable1796
funked1831
untranquillized1831
streaked1833
striped1839
discomfortable1844
streaky1848
bothered1851
funked out1859
bebothered1866
disorderly1871
fantod1883
rattled1885
aflap1887
shook1891
dicked-up1967
torqued1967
weirded out1973
the mind > emotion > fear > nervousness or uneasiness > [adjective] > uneasy > rattled
streaked1833
striped1839
streaky1848
rattled1885
1839 Boston Morning Post 4 July She made a remark, which, if reported in full, would make one of O.F.M. [= Our First Men] feel decidedly striped.
1840 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 3rd Ser. ix That's the reason married folks are so everlastin' striped; they never romp.
3. In parasynthetic adjectives. Cf. stripe n.3 Compounds 1.
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1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Tilia The strip'd-leav'd Lime-tree.
1781 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. i. 275 Striped Headed Finch.
1782 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. ii. 563 Striped-bellied Woodpecker.
1829 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom VII. 418 Striped-tailed or Angola Hornbill.
1859 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) I. 482 The Banded Bandicoot, or Striped-backed Bandicoot.
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