<B>stripe</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a stroke or lash, as with a whip, scourge, or rod. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Archaic.) the mark made by a stroke or lash; weal; welt. </DL>
<A NAME="striped">
<B>striped, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having stripes; marked with a stripe or stripes. <BR> <I>Ex. Zebras are striped.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="stripedbass">
<B>striped bass,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a sea bass with blackish stripes along the sides, found in North American coastal waters. </DL>
<A NAME="stripedgopher">
<B>striped gopher,</B> =striped spermophile.</DL>
<A NAME="stripedmaple">
<B>striped maple,</B> =moosewood.</DL>
<A NAME="stripedmarlin">
<B>striped marlin,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small marlin of the Pacific with vertical bars across the back and sides. </DL>
<A NAME="stripedpants">
<B>striped-pants, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with the diplomatic corps. <BR> <I>Ex. Pakistan's ... Mohammed Ali, 45, ambassador to the U.S. ... was reappointed to his old striped-pants post in the capital (Time).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of diplomacy; characteristic of diplomacy. <BR> <I>Ex. striped-pants formality or protocol.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="stripedskunk">
<B>striped skunk,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the common black skunk or the black-and-white skunk, found throughout the United States and spreading into northern Mexico and southern Canada. </DL>
<A NAME="stripedsnake">
<B>striped snake,</B> =garter snake.</DL>
<A NAME="stripedspermophile">
<B>striped spermophile,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a common striped ground squirrel of the western plains of North America; striped gopher. </DL>
<B>striper, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Slang.) a naval officer whose rank is indicated by the stripes on his sleeve. <BR> <I>Ex. A three-striper is a commander.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Slang.) any serviceman whose rank or length of service is indicated by a stripe or stripes on the sleeve. <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=striped bass.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="stripes">
<B>stripes, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under <B>stripe</B> (1). </DL>
<A NAME="stripfarming">
<B>strip farming,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the growing of rows of crops with strong root systems between rows of crops having weak root systems, along the contour of a slope, in order to prevent excessive erosion of topsoil. </DL>
<A NAME="stripfilm">
<B>stripfilm, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a reel of film with still frames; filmstrip. </DL>
<A NAME="striping">
<B>striping, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of forming stripes or ornamenting with stripes. <DD><B> 2. </B>a series or pattern of stripes. <BR> <I>Ex. sport slacks with blue and white stripings.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="striplight">
<B>striplight, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a row of lamps set in a narrow, rectangular trough and placed on the floor or elsewhere to light a stage, set, scene, and the like. </DL>
<A NAME="stripling">
<B>stripling, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a boy just coming into manhood; youth; lad. </DL>
<A NAME="stripmethod">
<B>strip method,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a conservative method of lumbering in which trees are reproduced on cleared strips by self-sown seeds from an adjoining forest. </DL>
<A NAME="stripmill">
<B>strip mill,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a rolling mill producing strips of steel. </DL>
<A NAME="stripmine">
<B>strip mine,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a mine which is operated from the surface by removing the overlying layers of earth. </DL>
<A NAME="stripmine">
<B>strip-mine, </B>transitive verb, <B>-mined,</B> <B>-mining.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to take (a mineral or ore) from a strip mine. <BR> <I>Ex. The ore is near hydro-electric power and can be strip-mined after removal of a small amount of overburden (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="stripmining">
<B>strip mining,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the work or business of operating a strip mine. </DL>
<A NAME="stripped">
<B>stripped, </B>adjective. =stripped-down.</DL>
<A NAME="strippeddown">
<B>stripped-down, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> reduced to the bare essentials. <BR> <I>Ex. Detroit has found that the stripped-down car is not what most people want (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="stripper">
<B>stripper, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person or thing that strips, such as a varnish or paint remover. <DD><B> 2. </B>an oil well that can produce oil only a few hours a day, requiring several hours to rebuild enough pressure for the oil to flow freely through the sand. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Informal.) a stripteaser. </DL>
<A NAME="stripping">
<B>stripping, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of a person or thing that strips. <DD><B> 2. </B>something removed by this act. <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=strip mining.</B> <BR><I>expr. <B>strippings,</B> </I>the last milk drawn from a cow. </DL>
<A NAME="strippoker">
<B>strip poker,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a form of poker in which the players take off a piece of clothing each time they lose a hand. </DL>
<A NAME="striptease">
<B>striptease, </B>noun, verb, <B>-teased,</B> <B>-teasing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a dance in which a woman slowly and coyly removes her clothing piece by piece to music, as in a burlesque show or night club. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to do a striptease. </DL>
<A NAME="stripteaser">
<B>stripteaser, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a performer of the striptease. </DL>
<A NAME="stripteuse">
<B>stripteuse, </B>noun, pl. <B>-teuses.</B> =stripteaser.</DL>
<A NAME="stripy">
<B>stripy, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having stripes; striped. <DD><B> 2. </B>occurring in or suggestive of stripes. </DL>
<A NAME="strisciando">
<B>strisciando, </B>adjective, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Music.) <DD><I>adj. </I> creeping or gliding. <DD><I>adv. </I> in a creeping or gliding manner. </DL>
<A NAME="strive">
<B>strive, </B>intransitive verb, <B>strove</B> or <B>strived,</B> <B>striven,</B> <B>striving.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to try hard; work hard. <BR> <I>Ex. to strive for self-control. Strive to succeed.</I> (SYN) endeavor. <DD><B> 2. </B>to struggle (with); fight (against). <BR> <I>Ex. The swimmer strove against the tide.</I> (SYN) contend, battle. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) to compete. noun <B>striver.</B> adv. <B>strivingly.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="striven">
<B>striven, </B>verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> a past participle of <B>strive.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. She has striven hard to make the party a success.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="strob">
<B>strob, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Physics.) a unit of velocity for bodies moving in a circular path, equal to one radian per second. </DL>
<A NAME="strobe">
<B>strobe, </B>noun, verb, <B>strobed,</B> <B>strobing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B><B>=strobe light.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=stroboscope.</B> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to produce flashes from, or as if from, a strobe light. </DL>
<A NAME="strobelight">
<B>strobe light,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an electronic flash gun for action photography. Its neon- or xenon-filled tube can be used over and over in contrast to the flashbulb, which must be replaced after each picture. </DL>
<A NAME="strobic">
<B>strobic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> spinning or whirling; appearing to spin or whirl. </DL>
<A NAME="strobiccircles">
<B>strobic circles,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a group of concentric circles that appear to spin round or revolve when the paper or object they are drawn on is moved about. </DL>
<A NAME="strobicdisk">
<B>strobic disk,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a disk containing strobic circles or the like. </DL>
<A NAME="strobil">
<B>strobil, </B>noun. =strobile.</DL>
<A NAME="strobila">
<B>strobila, </B>noun, pl. <B>-lae.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the body of a tapeworm, as distinct from the head, consisting of a chain of segments. <DD><B> 2. </B>a stage in the development of certain jellyfish in which a series of disk-shaped bodies split off to form new individuals. </DL>
<A NAME="strobilaceous">
<B>strobilaceous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or like a strobile. <DD><B> 2. </B>bearing strobiles. </DL>
<A NAME="strobilation">
<B>strobilation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an asexual form of reproduction in which segments of the body separate to form new individuals, as in tapeworms and scyphozoans. </DL>
<A NAME="strobile">
<B>strobile, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) any seed-producing cone, such as a pine cone, or a compact mass of scalelike leaves that produce spores, such as the cone of the club moss; strobil. </DL>
<A NAME="strobilization">
<B>strobilization, </B>noun. =strobilation.</DL>
<A NAME="strobilus">
<B>strobilus, </B>noun, pl. <B>-li.</B> =strobile.</DL>
<A NAME="strobograph">
<B>strobograph, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a device that makes a record of the phenomena observed with a stroboscope or similar instrument. </DL>
<A NAME="strobographic">
<B>strobographic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a strobograph. </DL>
<A NAME="stroboscope">
<B>stroboscope, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an instrument for studying the successive phases of the periodic motion of a body by means of periodically interrupted light. </DL>
<A NAME="stroboscopic">
<B>stroboscopic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a stroboscope. adv. <B>stroboscopically.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="stroboscopiclight">
<B>stroboscopic light,</B> =strobe light.</DL>
<A NAME="strobotron">
<B>strobotron, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an electron tube containing a rare gas, or mixture of such gases, used as a source of light in a stroboscope. </DL>
<A NAME="strode">
<B>strode, </B>verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> a past tense of <B>stride.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. He strode over the ditch.</I> </DL>
