class vs stripe

class

noun
  • A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes. 

  • One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader. 

  • A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher. 

  • A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank. 

  • A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution. 

  • A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class. 

  • A collection of sets definable by a shared property. 

  • Best of its kind. 

  • A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set in terms of its common properties, functions, etc. 

  • The division of society into classes. 

  • Admirable behavior; elegance. 

  • A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation. 

  • A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft. 

  • A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes: upper class, middle class and working class. 

  • A series of lessons covering a single subject. 

verb
  • To assign to a class; to classify. 

  • To be grouped or classed. 

  • To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes. 

adj
  • great; fabulous 

stripe

noun
  • Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort. 

  • A long, relatively straight region against a different coloured background. 

  • The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces. 

  • A slash cut into the flesh as a punishment. 

  • A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy. 

  • The start/finish line. 

  • A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions. 

  • A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow with a whip or stick. 

  • Any of the balls marked with stripes in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the spots. 

  • A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance. 

verb
  • To lash with a whip or strap. 

  • To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write. 

  • To mark with stripes. 

How often have the words class and stripe occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )