striate

American  

[strahy-eyt, strahy-it, -eyt] / ˈstraɪ eɪt, ˈstraɪ ɪt, -eɪt /

verb (used with object)

striated, striating

1. to mark with striae; furrow; stripe; streak.

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adjective

1. striated.

striate British  

adjective

1. marked with striae; striped

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verb

1. (tr) to mark with striae

Other Word Forms

• multistriate adjective
• substriate adjective

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.

Example Sentences

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

P. 6-9 cm. soon plane, dry, greyish brown, glabrous, disc often squamulose; g. deeply emarginate, white then tinged rufous; s. 6-8 cm. solid, pallid, fibrillosely-squamulose, striate; sp. 6-7 � 3.5. tumidum, P. Smell slight.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. campan. 18-20 cm. high, not striate, grey, crowded with white squamules; g. free, umber from first; s. solid, fusiform, rooting, squamulose, ring free; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George