Synonyms of the word

stria

• n. A stripe, usually one of a set of parallel stripes.
• n. A stretch mark.

band

• n. A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.
• n. (architecture) A strip of decoration.
• n. That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.
• n. A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
• n. (in the plural) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic…
• n. (physics) A part of the radio spectrum.
• n. (physics) A group of energy levels in a solid state material.
• n. (obsolete) A bond.
• n. (obsolete) Pledge; security.
• n. (especially US) A ring, such as a wedding ring (wedding band), or a ring put on a bird's leg to identify…
• n. (sciences) Any distinguishing line formed by chromatography, electrophoresis etc.
• n. (slang, hiphop, often in the plural) A wad of money totaling $10K, held together by a band; (by extension)…
• v. (transitive) To fasten with a band.
• v. (transitive, ornithology) To fasten an identifying band around the leg of (a bird).
• n. A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble, usually for a professional recording artist.
• n. A type of orchestra originally playing janissary music.
• n. A marching band.
• n. A group of people loosely united for a common purpose (a band of thieves).
• n. (anthropology) A small group of people living in a simple society.
• n. (Canada) A group of aboriginals that has official recognition as an organized unit by the federal government…
• v. (intransitive) To group together for a common purpose; to confederate.

banding

• n. A pattern of band-like markings.
• n. A technique used in the study of wild birds, by attaching a small, individually numbered, metal or plastic…
• v. present participle of band.

channel

• n. The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
• n. The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
• n. The navigable part of a river.
• n. A narrow body of water between two land masses.
• n. That through which anything passes; means of conveying or transmitting.
• n. A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
• n. (nautical, in the plural) Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase…
• n. (electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
• n. (electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
• n. (communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
• n. (communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from…
• n. (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair…
• n. (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such…
• n. (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined…
• n. (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
• n. (storage) The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading…
• n. (technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
• n. (business, marketing) A distribution channel.
• n. (Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chatroom and often dedicated…
• n. (Internet) An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
• n. A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
• v. To direct the flow of something.
• v. To assume the personality of another person, typically a historic figure, in a theatrical or paranormal…
• n. (nautical) The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach…

groove

• n. A long, narrow channel or depression; e.g., such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location…
• n. A fixed routine.
• n. The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit.
• n. A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.
• n. (mining) A shaft or excavation.
• v. To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.
• v. To create, dance to, or enjoy rhythmic music.

streak

• n. An irregular line left from smearing or motion.
• n. A continuous series of like events.
• n. The color of the powder of a mineral. So called, because a simple field test for a mineral is to streak…
• n. A moth of the family Geometridae Chesias legatella.
• n. A tendency or characteristic, but not a dominant or pervasive one.
• n. (shipbuilding) A strake.
• n. A rung or round of a ladder.
• v. (intransitive) To have or obtain streaks.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To run naked in public. (Contrast flash.).
• v. (transitive) To create streaks.
• v. (transitive) To move very swiftly.
• v. (obsolete, Britain, Scotland) To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.

striation

• n. (countable, mineralogy) One of a number of parallel grooves and ridges in a rock or rocky deposit, formed…
• n. (countable, geomorphology) One of a number of parallel scratch lines in rock outcrops, formed when glaciers…
• n. The action of marking with a stria.
• n. The result of being marked with a stria.
• n. (roofing) a parallel series of small grooves, channels, or impressions typically within a metal roof panel…

stripe

• n. A long, straight region of a single colour.
• n. (in the plural) The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
• n. (informal) Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.
• n. A long narrow mark left by striking with a lash or rod; by extension, such a stroke.
• n. (weaving) A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets…
• v. (transitive) To mark with stripes.
• v. (transitive, computing) To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to…