striate
Americanverb (used with object)
adjective
adjective
verb
Other Word Forms
- multistriate adjective
- substriate adjective
Etymology
Origin of striate
1660–70; < Latin striātus furrowed, fluted, equivalent to stri ( a ) ( stria ) + -ātus -ate 1
Explanation
If a field is plowed into furrows, it's striated — or, technically, it's marked with striae, which are stripes or grooves. When you see striate, think of stripes. When a child uses a fork to make a row of stripes in her play-dough, she's striating it. A striated rock surface might show evidence of the movement of glaciers thousands of years ago. Striated muscle has a striped appearance.
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Example Sentences
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It’s about contemporary Italy, which is also to say that it’s about the divisions of class, region, sex, nationality and ideology that striate the peninsula.
From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2022
Volume loss affected the gyri, subcortical perisylvian area, insula, and part of the striate nucleus.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
As soon as you start to stir the pot, add in people of different socio-economic backgrounds, sexual orientations, or value systems, the myth of a totally open, flat and transparent organization starts to striate.
From Forbes • Sep. 12, 2013
Achenes striate; pappus of numerous small chaffy scales, forming a short crown.—Branching perennials, with deep roots; the sessile heads 2 or 3 together, axillary and terminal.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Bracts persistent, round, partly clasping, striate, as well as the stipules.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
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