Strife vs. Stripe — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Strife and Stripe
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Strife
Heated, often violent conflict or disagreement.
Stripe
A long narrow band distinguished, as by color or texture, from the surrounding material or surface.
Strife
A conflict or quarrel
"His mind seemed older than theirs.
Stripe
A textile pattern of parallel bands or lines on a contrasting background.
Strife
Contention or competition between rivals.
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Stripe
A fabric having such a pattern.
Strife
Striving; earnest endeavor; hard work.
Stripe
A strip of cloth or braid worn on a uniform to indicate rank, awards received, or length of service; a chevron.
Strife
Exertion or contention for superiority, either by physical or intellectual means.
Stripe
Sort; kind
"All Fascists are not of one mind, one stripe" (Lillian Hellman).
Strife
Bitter conflict, sometimes violent.
Stripe
A stroke or blow, as with a whip.
Strife
(colloquial) A trouble of any kind.
Stripe
To mark with stripes or a stripe.
Strife
(obsolete) That which is contended against; occasion of contest.
Stripe
A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.
Zebra stripes
Strife
The act of striving; earnest endeavor.
Stripe
A long, relatively straight region against a different coloured background.
Strife
Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts.
Doting about questions and strifes of words.
Thus gods contended - noble strife -Who most should ease the wants of life.
Stripe
(in the plural) The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
Strife
Altercation; violent contention; fight; battle.
Twenty of them fought in this black strife.
These vows, thus granted, raised a strife aboveBetwixt the god of war and queen of love.
Stripe
(informal) Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.
Persons of the same political stripe
Strife
That which is contended against; occasion of contest.
Stripe
A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow with a whip or stick.
Strife
Lack of agreement or harmony
Stripe
A slash cut into the flesh as a punishment.
Strife
Bitter conflict; heated often violent dissension
Stripe
(weaving) A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
Stripe
Any of the balls marked with stripes in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the spots.
Stripe
(computing) A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy.
Stripe
The start/finish line.
Stripe
(transitive) To mark with stripes.
Stripe
(transitive) To lash with a whip or strap.
Stripe
To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.
Stripe
A line, or long, narrow division of anything of a different color or structure from the ground; hence, any linear variation of color or structure; as, a stripe, or streak, of red on a green ground; a raised stripe.
Stripe
A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colors, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
Stripe
A strip, or long, narrow piece attached to something of a different color; as, a red or blue stripe sewed upon a garment.
Stripe
A stroke or blow made with a whip, rod, scourge, or the like, such as usually leaves a mark.
Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed.
Stripe
A long, narrow discoloration of the skin made by the blow of a lash, rod, or the like.
Cruelty marked him with inglorious stripes.
Stripe
Color indicating a party or faction; hence, distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort; as, persons of the same political stripe.
Stripe
The chevron on the coat of a noncommissioned officer.
Stripe
To make stripes upon; to form with lines of different colors or textures; to variegate with stripes.
Stripe
To strike; to lash.
Stripe
A strip or stripe of a contrasting color or material
Stripe
A piece of braid, usually on the sleeve, indicating military rank or length of service
Stripe
V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service;
They earned their stripes in Kuwait
Stripe
A kind or category;
Businessmen of every stripe joined in opposition to the proposal
Stripe
A marking of a different color or texture from the background
Stripe
Mark with stripes
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