noun
Meaning 1
An irregular line left from smearing or motion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The picture I took out the car window had streaks.
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noun
An irregular line left from smearing or motion.
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noun
A continuous series of like events.
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noun
A continuous series of like events.
A measure of activity that tracks how many consecutive days a certain interaction with another user or a service has taken place, a form of gamification to drive user engagement.
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Usage: Internet
Qualifier: social media
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noun
A consistent facet of somebody's personality.
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noun
The color of the powder of a mineral. So called, because a simple field test for a mineral is to streak it against unglazed white porcelain.
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noun
A moth of the family Geometridae, Chesias legatella.
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noun
A tendency or characteristic, but not a dominant or pervasive one.
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noun
A strake.
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Topics: business, manufacturing, shipbuilding
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noun
A rung or round of a ladder.
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noun
The act of streaking, or running naked through a public area.
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verb
To have or obtain streaks.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To run quickly.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To run naked in public.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To move very swiftly.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To create streaks upon.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.
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Usage: Scotland, UK, obsolete
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noun
a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: stripe, bar
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Broader terms: marking
Narrower terms: band, banding, stria, striation
noun
a distinctive characteristic
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Broader terms: characteristic
noun
a sudden flash (as of lightning)
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Broader terms: flash
noun
an unbroken series of events
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: run
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Broader terms: succession
Narrower terms: losing streak, winning streak
verb
mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: mottle, blotch
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Broader terms: color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in
verb
run naked in a public place
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Broader terms: run
verb
move quickly in a straight line
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Broader terms: move
History
From Middle English streke, from Old English strica, from Proto-Germanic *strikiz, from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“line”). Related to North Frisian strijck, Old Saxon striki, Middle Low German streke, Low German streek, Danish streg, Swedish streck, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk strek, Icelandic stryk, strykr, Dutch streek, Afrikaans streek, Old High German strih, German Strich, Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌺𐍃 (striks).
Across languages
83 source translations are retained for this English entry.