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 ) ( stria ) + -ātus -ate ¹

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

Achenes of disk and ray similar, striate, without pappus.—Perennial herbs, with toothed, pinnatifid, or divided leaves, and single or corymbed heads.

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

Achenes various shades of brown to black, flattened or rhombic in section, obovoid, 1.5–2 mm. long, longitudinally, striate with fine lines.

From Seeds of Michigan Weeds Bulletin 260, Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station, Division of Botany, March, 1910 by Beal, W. J. (William James)