Definitions for stripings

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stripings strip·ing

Spelling: [strahy-ping]

IPA: /ˈstraɪ pɪŋ/

Stripings is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 229 anagrams from letters in stripings (giinprsst).

Definitions for stripings

noun

1. the act of decorating or otherwise providing with stripes:
2. a striped pattern:
3. a relatively long, narrow band of a different color, appearance, weave, material, or nature from the rest of a surface or thing:
4. a fabric or material containing such a band or bands.
5. a strip of braid, tape, or the like.
6. stripes. 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. Informal. status or recognition as a result of one's efforts, experience, or achievements:
7. a strip, or long, narrow piece of anything:
8. a streak or layer of a different nature within a substance.
9. style, variety, sort, or kind:
10. Also called magnetic stripe. Movies. a strip of iron oxide layer on the edge of a film that is used for recording and reproducing a magnetic sound track.

verb (used with object)

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

Origin of stripings

First recorded in 1670-80; stripe¹ + -ing¹

Examples for stripings

The animal is not much spotted and striped, but the striping in the young is much more marked.

Specimen 16-1225 has striping in the same colors and to it is seamed a piece with blue on a reddish-orange ground.

The joints may be accentuated by striping with white or black paint.

Window sashes can be indicated by striping the glass with black paint.

The striping, corner pieces, etc., are done on the flat color.

But no cry for mercy escaped him as the cruel whips of raw-hide fell upon his emaciated form, striping it until the blood spurted.

It will be remembered that the striping and spotting of the Hyaenas is very Genet- and Suricate-like.

This comprises a difficult and skilled feature of the art of striping.

Before her eyes there was a striping of light on darkness; still a moon between the trees.

The moon had risen, flooding the yacht with white light and striping the deck with the clear-cut, black shadows of the stanchions.