<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a relatively long, narrow band of a different color, appearance, weave, material, or nature from the rest of a surface or thing: the stripes of a zebra</li><li>a fabric or material containing such a band or bands</li><li>a strip of braid, tape, or the like</li><li>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.</li><li>Informal: status or recognition as a result of one's efforts, experience, or achievements: She earned her stripes as a traveling sales representative and then moved up to district manager</li><li>a strip, or long, narrow piece of anything: a stripe of beach</li><li>a streak or layer of a different nature within a substance</li><li>style, variety, sort, or kind: a man of quite a different stripe</li><li>a strip of iron oxide layer on the edge of a film that is used for recording and reproducing a magnetic soundtrack</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to mark or furnish with a stripe or stripes</li></ul>