striate
Americanverb (used with object)
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Etymology
Origin of striate
1660–70; < Latin striātus furrowed, fluted, equivalent to stri ( a ) ( see 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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Li offers hints of how Field and Adelaide’s destiny came to pass, with a preface and short flash-forward scenes that striate the narrative.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
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
Achillea Millefolium L. Flowers white; achenes white to gray, finely striate lengthwise, flattened, oblong, tapering at the lower end, straight or curved.
From Seeds of Michigan Weeds Bulletin 260, Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station, Division of Botany, March, 1910 by W. J. (William James) Beal
Soon after the start of the Civil War, Church turned the atmospheric effects of a rising sun, striated clouds, and stars peeking through a patch of sky into a tattered Union flag.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
Keepers at the Cornish Birds of Prey Centre CIC said a gyr falcon and a striated caracara were taken between 17:00 GMT on Thursday and 07:00 on Friday.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025
Visitors come to explore the Taroko Gorge, a striated marble canyon carved by the Liwu River, which cuts through mountains that rise steeply from the coast.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2024
Now, researchers in ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering report that the non-allergenic wheat protein glutenin successfully grew striated muscle layers and flat fat layers, which could be combined to produce meat-like textures.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 29, 2024
They looked like soft marbles, pink shooters striated with red, inside of which an orange/yellow liquid gleamed and threatened to ooze out if the outer membrane broke.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
“I just don’t like this striating of our culture,” she said.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2016
His conclusion was that the advocates of the Iceberg theory had formed "too extravagant notions regarding the potency of floating ice as a striating agent."
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Sir Francis Darwin
It is found striating white sandstone about Tákwá and other places in the interior.
From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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