stripes
Произношение: [straɪps]
Слово
Контекст: «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!
Пример
The zebra has beautiful black and white stripes on its body.
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The shirt without stripes looks plain and very boring.
Пример
What colors are the stripes on your favorite sweater?
Контекст: «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.
Пример
The general wore many stripes on his uniform to show his high rank.
Пример
She didn’t have any stripes on her uniform, so she was a beginner.
Пример
How many stripes do you need to earn a promotion?
Контекст: «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.
Пример
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.
Пример
Can we stripe the fence with red and white colors?
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