Meaning of STREAK
| Pronunciation: | | streek
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- [n] a marking of a different color or texture from the background
- [n] a distinctive characteristic; "he has a stubborn streak"; "a streak of wildness"
- [n] a sudden flash (as of lightning)
- [n] an unbroken series of events; "had a streak of bad luck"; "Nicklaus had a run of birdies"
- [v] mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained
- [v] run naked in a public place
- [v] move quickly in a straight line; "The plane streaked across the sky"
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| | Synonyms: | | blotch, mottle, run, stripe |
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| | See Also: | | band, characteristic, color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize, flash, losing streak, marking, move, run, stria, striation, succession, winning streak | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Streak\, v. t. [Cf. {Stretch}, {Streek}.]
To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
\Streak\, n. [OE. streke; akin to D. streek a line,
stroke, G. strich, AS. strica, Sw. strek, Dan. streg, Goth.
stricks, and E. strike, stroke. See {Strike}, {Stroke}, n.,
and cf. {Strake}.]
1. A line or long mark of a different color from the ground;
a stripe; a vein.
What mean those colored streaks in heaven? --Milton.
2. (Shipbuilding) A strake.
3. (Min.) The fine powder or mark yielded by a mineral when
scratched or rubbed against a harder surface, the color of
which is sometimes a distinguishing character.
4. The rung or round of a ladder. [Obs.]
\Streak\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Streaked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Streaking}.]
1. To form streaks or stripes in or on; to stripe; to
variegate with lines of a different color, or of different
colors.
A mule . . . streaked and dappled with white and
black. --Sandys.
Now streaked and glowing with the morning red.
--Prior.
2. With it as an object: To run swiftly. [Colloq.]
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