nature vs stripe

nature

noun
  • The distinguishing characteristic of a person or thing, understood as its general class, sort, type, etc. 

  • Spontaneous love, affection, or reverence, especially between parent and child. 

  • The essential or innate characteristics of a person or thing which will always tend to manifest, especially in contrast to specific contexts, reason, religious duty, upbringing, and personal pretense or effort. 

  • The need to urinate and defecate. 

  • Sexual desire. 

  • The way things are, the totality of all things in the physical universe and their order, especially the physical world in contrast to spiritual realms and flora and fauna as distinct from human conventions, art, and technology. 

  • The vital functions or strength of someone or something, especially (now dialect) as requiring nourishment or careful maintenance or (medicine) as a force of regeneration without special treatment. 

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 nature and stripe occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )