stripes
Prononciation : [straɪps]
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Contexte : « appearance »
(noun) stripes are long, thin lines that are different from the spaces around them. Imagine a candy cane with red and white lines going up and down. Those lines are stripes!
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The zebra has beautiful black and white stripes on its body.
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The shirt without stripes looks plain and very boring.
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What colors are the stripes on your favorite sweater?
Contexte : « classification »
(noun) stripes can also mean the way we recognize or group things based on certain characteristics, like badges or ranks in the military. They show how experienced someone is.
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The general wore many stripes on his uniform to show his high rank.
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She didn’t have any stripes on her uniform, so she was a beginner.
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How many stripes do you need to earn a promotion?
Contexte : « patterning »
(verb) to stripe something means to add stripes onto it. You can think of it like coloring a picture so that it has lines in different colors.
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She decided to stripe the canvas with bright colors.
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He didn’t want to stripe his artwork because he preferred a solid color.
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Can we stripe the fence with red and white colors?
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