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Striping

Stripe \Stripe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Striped; p. pr. & vb. n. Striping.]

  1. To make stripes upon; to form with lines of different colors or textures; to variegate with stripes.

  2. To strike; to lash. [R.]

Wiktionary
striping

n. A pattern of stripes. vb. (present participle of stripe English)

WordNet
striping

n. the act of marking with stripes

Usage examples of "striping".

As a striper, Stanley had painted the single line, with a drooping striping brush, around the automobiles moving through the plant as they got to him.

What you should've done, the first time you came home and puked up your guts, was quit striping cars.

A real striping brush is wider, and slants back aways, and the bristles are longer on one side than on the other.

Inside, the slatted blinds over the porthole cast bands of light and dark onto her bunk, striping its rumpled brown blankets.

What had once been pristine now had the pockmarks of a city under siege, with fire scars striping buildings and burned rafters clawing the sky.

The room itself had been grown of variously colored coral, striping and dotting the walls in an abstract but pleasing pattern.

You'll recognize those by the red and yellow striping on the bulkhead and doors.

Shaauri workers moved among the buildings with calm purpose, differing only in the cut of garment and striping of fur.

As he watched, the carnivores—looking a lot like wolves with zebra striping in dark and light blue—coursed and brought down a yellow wildebeest analog.

She was sweat-soaked and grimy, and her hair hung in straggles, the luster of its zebra striping lost.

He saw Tirsa sitting up, brushing her hair, whose striping had been restored after being lost in the mud.

Nude female forms - one could not accurately say bodies since the faces were never shown, but were always twisted away from the camera lens - were tied with cord, not merely wrists and ankles, but artfully patterned cords striping the flesh of breast, belly, thigh and crotch.

Light, as pale and thick as milk, spilled through the old-fashioned Venetian blinds, striping them both.

And now she was bare, the light striping her, throwing into deep shadow the erotic dells of her torso, hiding as it revealed.

The four buildings of the temple spread out in a rough horseshoe, their cedar-beamed, canted roofs with the raised ribs striping the sunlight into shadow and gloss.