stripe

A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.

zebra stripes

A long, relatively straight region against a different coloured background.

8 Sep 2019, Peter Conrad in The Guardian, Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser review – heavyweight study of a critical colossus At first, what mattered was the sparky contents of Sontag’s head; by the end she was best known for the way she wore her hair – that saturnine battle helmet of dyed black, with a single stripe left white at the temple like a Frankensteinian lightning bolt of intellect.

The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.

Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.

persons of the same political stripe

20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along? Everyone I spoke to had waved flags at Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding, had camped out for Diana’s funeral and, in some cases, her ill-fated wedding. (No one mentioned going to Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson’s now all-but forgotten wedding, and yet the awkward truth is that Harry and Meghan’s marriage is no more significant than that one was, in terms of lineage.) Not being a royalist of any stripe, I’d not been to any of those.

A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow or lash with a whip, stick, or scourge.

Thou most lying slave, Whom stripes may move, not kindness!

Forty stripes he [the judge] may give him [the wicked man], and not exceed:

To mark with stripes.

To lash with a whip or strap.

I did try to ask questions and talk to Nanny but different things but that was considered "Talking back" or sassing which resulted in the striping of the legs or mashing of one's mouth, and then being put in the dark closet until the crying stopped.

But when practice yielded no improvement, curses and the crack of a whip followed. Stripped, lying face down on the ground, Platt absorbed the master's rage, lash after lash striping his buttocks, shoulders, and back.

To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.